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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

			1936-11-25 Locy Type FDC 3 (A-TTB) "FIRST DAY / COMMISSION"
			First Day in Commission

Unknown Cachet
Back is clean

No Image			1936-11-25 Locy Type FDC 3 (A-TTB) "FIRST DAY / COMMISSION"
			First Day in Commission

Back is clean

 

			1936-11-25 Locy Type FDC 3 (A-TTB) "FIRST DAY / COMMISSION"
			Ship Commissioning

Cachet maker is not indicated but style is very similar to Leo Schupp.

 

N/A		N/A	1936-11-25 Locy Type FDC 3 (A-TTB) "FIRST DAY / COMMISSION"
			Commissioning

Add-on Cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

			1936-12-22 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "BROOKLYN / N. YARD N.Y."
			Congress Authorizes Navy

Notes:

 

No Image			1937-03-12 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "VALPARAISO / CHILE"
			Category

Notes:

 

			1937-05-30 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "NAVY YARD / NEW YORK"
			Category

Cachet by Daniel Puglis

			1937-09-19 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "NAVY YARD / N.Y."
			160th Anniversary Battle of Saratoga

Cachet by Daniel Puglis

			1937-12-08 Locy Type 3b (A-TXB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Official Business

			1941-04-15 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT)
			Category

Cachet by W. M. Grandy

 

			1941-07-24 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: J Robert Bund and Robert Stoner
Cachet is thermographed.

No Image			1941-09-16 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB)
			Category

Front pencil notation "AIR MAIL"
Back is clean

			1942-03-14 Locy Type 3z (TTT)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use. Add-on Cachet by Bruce D. Liddell. Front typed notation "U.S.S. CUMMINGS"
Back pencil notations "Barkley"..."L-1159"..."ck'd"..."24999"...Black rubberstamp "792367"

			1943-07-27 Locy Type 9v 1943-08-02 WASHINGTON D. C. REG. SEC. NAVY DEPT. MAIL DIVISION WASHINGTON D.C.
			Official Business

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		No Image	1945-03-12
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

 

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