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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

No Image			1935-10-22 Locy Type FDPS F [CD-2] FIRST DAY / POSTAL SERVICE
			First Day of Postal Service

Note: Add-on cachet by Alton M (Budd) Arrington

No Image			1935-10-22 Locy Type FDPS F [CD-2] FIRST DAY / POSTAL SERVICE
			First Day of Postal Service

Note: Cachet Maker: John E. Gill

			1935-10-22 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) FIRST DAY / POSTAL
			Category

Note: R/S marking on back from John C. Von Losberg. This cover has been backdated to reflect the First Day of Postal Service. The ship's Type 3 postmark device was received and first used on November 28 1935 with "THANKSGIVING/DAY" in the killers. (USCS Postmark Catalog)

			1935-10-22 Locy Type FDPS F [CD-2] FIRST DAY / POSTAL SERVICE
			Ship First Day Of Postal Service

Notes: Cachet Maker: C Wright Richell

			1936-02-22 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "WASHINGTONS / BIRTHDAY"
			Washington's Birthday

USCS Chapter 23 Cachet

			1936-03-19 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) MIAMI / FLA.
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

Notes: Cachet Maker: Roger A Wentworth

			1937-08-15 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"
			Ship's Birthday

Horton Cachet

		No Image	1937-12-03 Mare Island Station Machine Vallejo, CA
			Ship's Birthday

Official Business

			1940-02-16 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) MANILA / P I
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: M Fay Muridge, USCS Chapter 2 John Paul Jones and Deane C. Bartley.
It is unclear what role, if any, D.D. Jagyi had with the cachet.

			1941-07-07 USS CANOPUS AS-9 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT)
			Category

Notes: Canceled aboard Sub Tender with return to PORPOISE

No Image			1941-07-18 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB)
			Category

Hand painted cachet

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