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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.
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1928-04-21 |
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No Image |
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1932-02-10 |
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No Image |
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1932-05-24 |
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Back pencil notations "165"..."B"..."AM-19"..."3s"...Purple rubberstamp "Rcd JUNE 18"
Black pen notation "4"
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1933-01-01 |
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New Years Day 1933 |
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1933-10-27 |
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Navy Day 1933 |
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1934-01-19 |
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Back black printed return address to Harlow Higgins
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1934-08-27 |
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Port Visit - Portland OR |
Cachet by Myron F McCamley and
Robert L. Manley
Cachet also mentions USS Avocet AVP-4
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1934-08-28 |
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Port visit |
Cachet by Myron F. McCamley
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1934-11-12 |
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1935-07-04 |
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Independence Day 1935 |
Cachet by the John Rodgers Chapter No. 26, USCS
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1935-12-25 |
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Cachet by Richard Dumonte. Cachet is thermographed.
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1937-05-12 |
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Eclipse Expedition |
R/S cachet for the Eclipse Expedition. The Eclipse Expedition was a joint project between the US Navy and the National Geographic Society held on June 8 1937 at the Canton Island in the Phoenix Group to view and study the total eclipse of the sun that was to take place that day.
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1937-05-24 |
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Eclipse Expedition Landed on Enderbury Island |
Cachet by C. Wright Richell
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1937-06-08 |
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Solar Eclipse |
Cachet by C. Wright Richell
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1937-06-08 |
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Solor Eclipse |
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1937-09-08 |
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Cachet by Ted Harrington, addressed to USS GREBE AT-134. Back is clean
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1937-10-26 |
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Cachet by Trans-Pacific Cover Society and
Royal C Hendricks
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1938-05-30 |
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Hand painted cachet
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1938-07-26 |
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Cachet by Desmond D Jagyi and Jimmie Allen
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1938-09-05 |
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Unknown Cachet. Back black rubberstamp H.D. Roloff return address...Pencil notations "AVP4","034"
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1938-09-17 |
Cachet by C Wright Richell,
Raymond A Aiken and
Walter Czubay
Notation on the back indicates that 44 covers with this cachet were canceled
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1938-09-17 |
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1939-08-25 |
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Hand painted cachet
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1941-04-21 |
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1941-05-01 |
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Cachet by J. Robert Bund and
Robert Stoner
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1941-06-13 |
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1941-08-28 |
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1943-12-14 |
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Censored wartime (WWII) use
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