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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

			1930-09-11 Locy Type 5ks (C) "NAPLES / ITALY"
			Official Business

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No Image			1931-03-31 Locy Type 5hks "GITMO BAY / CUBA"
			Category

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			1932-07-26 Locy Type 5ks (C) "NAVY YARD / NEW YORK"
			Post Office Day 1932

Bruce D. Liddell collection

No Image			1933-10-05 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "LONG BEACH / CALIF"
			Category

Bruce D. Liddell Add-on Cachet

No Image			1935-02-22 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "SAN FRANCISCO / CALIF"
			Washington's Birthday

R/S Cachet
Bruce D. Liddell collection

No Image			1935-09-30 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "HONOLULU / HAWAII"
			Secretary of War Port Visit

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			1935-09-30 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "HONOLULU / HAWAII"
			Secretary of War Port Visit

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			1936-02-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "ABE LINCOLN / BIRTHDAY"
			Lincoln's Birthday

Myron F. McCamley Cachet
Bruce D. Liddell collection

			1936-05-20 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "LAT 0-00-0 / LONG 81-0-00"
			South America Cruise 1936 Equator Crossing

Walter G. Crosby Cachet

			1936-05-31 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "VALPARAISO / CHILE"
			South America Cruise 1936 Valparaiso, Chile

Walter G. Crosby Cachet

No Image			1936-06-08 Locy Type 5bks (XOX) "HOMEWARD / BOUND"
			Category

Bruce D. Liddell Add-on Cachet

 

			1936-08-03 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) PORTLAND / OREGON
			Fleet Week Portland Rose Festival

Notes: Cachet Maker: William S Linto.
Cachet is partly thermographed (lettering).
Cover had postmarks from USS Chester CA-27, USS Goff DD-247, and USS Reuben James DD-245.

			1936-10-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "NAVY DAY, BAY / BRIDGE EVENT"
			Navy Day 1936

Walter G. Crosby
C. Wright Richell

			1938-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "LONG BEACH / CALIF"
			New Year's Day 1938

Bruce D. Liddell collection

			1938-01-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "AT / SEA"
			Ship to Shore Mail

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			1938-04-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "HILO / HAWAII"
			Visit to Hilo, T.H.

Walter G. Crosby Cachet

			1938-07-18 Locy Type 9v
			Category

Paul J. Gross Cachet
Bruce D. Liddell collection

 

			1938-07-26 Locy Type 9efw  (USCS Illustration C-39a)
			Fleet Week Portland Rose Festival

Notes: Cachet Maker: William S Linto.

			1938-07-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "PORTLAND / OREGON"
			Fleet Week 1938

Myron F. McCamley Cachet

			1940-04-13 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "LAHAINA / HAWAII"
			Fleet Problem XXI

James / Burkholder Cachet

			1940-04-23 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII"
			Category

Crosby Cachet

			1940-11-21 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "AT / SEA"
			Official Business

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No Image			1941-03-06 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T.H."
			Category

Ted Harrington Cachet
Bruce D. Liddell collection

			1941-07-03 Locy Type Fake "AT / SEA" USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration CD-3
			Ship's Data

Hobby Shop Cachet

			1941-07-03 Locy Type Fake "AT / SEA" USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration CD-3
			Ship's Data

Hobby Shop Cachet

			1942-07-20 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Official Business

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			1943-04-17 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored wartime (WII) use

 

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