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Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess.

Each entry provides a link to the image of the front of the cover. There is also the option to have a link to the image of the back of the cover if there is anything of significance there. Finally, there is the primary date for the cover and the classification types for all postmarks based on the Locy System.

Thumbnail Link To Cachet Close-Up Image	Thumbnail Link To Full Cover Front Image	Thumbnail Link To Postmark or Back Image	Primary Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text --------- Cachet Category

 

			1922-07-03 Locy Type 3rs
			Category

Notes:

			1925-01-28 Locy Type 3r
			Category

Postcard use
A typical scene in the Lumber
District of the Northwest.

			1931-08-26 Locy Type 3r
			Category

Unknown (Unreadable) Cachet
Back pencil notation ship/cancel info...Black rubberstamp "AUG 31 REC'D"

No Image			1932-05-12 Locy Type 5hks
			Category

Hand painted cachet

No Image			1933-05-22 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
			Category

Back is clean

No Image			1933-07-01 Locy Type 5hks
			Category

Note:

No Image			1933-09-06 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
			Category

Back pencil notations cancel/ship info...Red rubberstamp "8574"...Purple rubberstamp "Martin W. Longseth"

 

			1935-01-01 Locy Type 3 (BC+BTT)
			Person Commemorative - Paul Revere

Notes: Cachet Maker: Homer D & Roy E Hubbard

			1936-04-04 Locy Type 9x
			Category

Back blue rubberstamp Dr. S.E. Hutnick return address

			1936-08-31 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "BREMERTON / WASH"
			Category

Note:

			1936-11-04 Locy Type 5hks "NOB. NORFOLK / VIRGINIA"
			Popeye

Hand painted cachet

 

			1937-06-25 Locy Type 5hks PORTSMOUTH / VIRGINIA
			Ship Keel Laying - USS Stack DD-406

Notes: Cachet Maker: Norfolk Cover Service

 

			1937-09-17 Locy Type 5hks NYD / NEW YORK
			Constitution Day

Notes: Cachet Makers: Frederick Horton and P J (PeeJay) Ickeringill

 

			1937-09-20 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) NAVY YARD / PHILA PA
			Ship Keel Laying - USS Rhind DD-404

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 4 Stephen Decatur and Meyer Tuchinsky

 

			1938-03-15 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) MARE ISLAND / CALIF
			Ship Launching - USS Sturgeon SS-187

Notes: Cachet Maker: Dr S E Hutnick

			1939-02-22 Locy Type 5hks
			Washington's Birthday

Unknown (Unreadable) Cachet
Back black rubberstamps "MYRON N. ROTH"...NAVAL CACHET AND COVER CLUB return

			1940-08-15 Locy Type 3 (B) "ST PAUL / UNALASKA"
			Port Visit

USCS Chapter 2 Cachet

			1940-12-25 Locy Type F USCS Catalog Illustration V-4b Locy Type 5hks
			Christmas Day 1940

Red Strike
Nicholson Cachet
Back shows Type 5 cancel

			1940-12-25 Locy Type F USCS Catalog Illustration V-4b
			Christmas Day 1940

Blue Strike
Nicholson Cachet

No Image			1941-09-15 Locy Type 5hks
			Category

Back blue rubberstamp D.D. Jagyi

			1942-03-11 Locy Type 3z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1942-04-03 Locy Type 3z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Back is clean

			1944-11-09 Locy Type 2z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Back is clean

 

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