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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

 

N/A		N/A	1936-12-09 Locy Type 3ty (BBT) "USS HELENA / KEEL LAYING" US Receiving Ship Brooklyn NY
			Keel Laying - USS Helena CL-50

Cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by Lloyd A. Nace, ANCS 54

 

			1938-08-27 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) NAVY YARD / BROOKLYN USS Honolulu CL-48
			Ship Launching - USS Helena CL-50

Notes: Cachet Makers: Frederick Horton and Loring W Stannard

			1939-09-18 Locy Type FDC 3r "BROOKLYN / NY"
			First Day in Commission

Unknown Cachet
Back pencil notation L.W.S.

			1939-09-18 Locy Type FDC 3r "BROOKLYN / NY"
			First Day in Commission

Frederick Horton Cachet
Bruce D. Liddell collection

 

			1939-09-18 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) BROOKLYN / N Y
			Ship Commissioning

Notes: Cachet Makers: ANCS Crew 13 USS Brooklyn and George V Sadworth

 

			1939-09-18 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) BROOKLYN / N Y
			Ship Commissioning

Notes: Cachet Makers: Gordon A Shaw and Lloyd A Nace.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1939-09-18 Locy Type FDC 3r (AC-BBT) BROOKLYN / N Y
			Ship Commissioning

Notes: Cachet Maker: Louis C & Mae Weigand

			1940-01-06 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "GUANTANAMO / CUBA"
			Category

Note:

			1940-05-24 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "BROOKLYN / NEW YORK"
			Category

Advertising cover

			1940-09-18 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) Locy Type F USCS Catalog Illustration H-23
			1st Anniversary Commissioning

Muridge Cachet
Back is clean

			1940-11-10 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT)
			Category

Army Navy YMCA stationary

			1941-06-06 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT)
			Category

Sadworth / Garrett Cachet
Back black pen return address to USS Helena Pearl Harbor Hawaii

No Image			1941-07-22 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT)
			Category

Business reply envelope
Back is clean

 

No Image			1941-08-18 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT)
			Category

Notes:

			1941-08-27 Locy Type Fake USCS Catalog Illustration CD-3
			Category

Hobby Shop Cachet
Back is clean

			1942-05-01 Locy Type 3z (BTB)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Back is clean

			1943-04-30 Locy Type 3z (BTB)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Back MACDILL FIELD FLA machine 1943-05-24...Pencil notation "CL-50"

 

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