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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

 

			1935-10-28 Locy Type 7di NAVY / YARD / STATION Navy Yard Philadelphia Pennsylvania
			Ship Keel Laying - USS Wichita CA-45 Ship Launching - USS Cassin DD-372 Ship Launching - USS Shaw DD-373

Cachet Maker: Philadelphia Navy Yard Development Association.

 

			1936-09-18 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "WELCOME / U.S.S. SHAW" USS ANTARES AKS-3
			Ship Commissioning

Cachet Maker: Dr S E Hutnick

 

No Image			1936-09-18 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "WELCOME / U.S.S. SHAW" USS ANTARES AKS-3
			Ship Commissioning

Cachet by Meyer Tuchinsky

 

No Image			1936-10-26 Locy Type FDPS 3r (A-BBT) "FIRST DAY / MAIL"
			First Day of Postal Service

Cachet by Meyer Tuchinsky. Back pencil notation "DD373". Blue rubberstamp Meyer Tuchinsky return address.

 

			1936-10-26 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "FIRST DAY / MAIL"
			First Day Of Postal Service

Cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick

 

N/A		N/A	1936-10-26 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "FIRST DAY / MAIL"
			First Day Of Postal Service

Cachet by Meyer Tuchinsky.

 

N/A			1936-10-26 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "FIRST / MAIL"
			First Day Of Postal Service

Cachet by Gordon A. Shaw, sponsored by Lloyd A. Nace. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

No Image			1936-11-01 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "NAVY YARD / PHILA PENN" Locy Type 9v
			Category

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No Image			1937-01-16 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "NAVY YARD / PHILA PA"
			Category

Note: Cachet artist is Meyer Tuchinsky and sponsored by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

			1937-04-30 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "HARWICH / ENGLAND"
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

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			1937-05-09 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "DIEPPE / FRANCE"
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

Cachet Maker: Meyer Tuchinsky

 

No Image			1937-05-25 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "NAPLES / ITALY"
			Category

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No Image			1941-04-24 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT)
			Category

Note: Back black rubberstamp Paul J. Gross return address

 

No Image			1941-04-24 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT)
			Category

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			1941-08-19 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT)
			Category

Cachet by Robert Stoner, sponsored by J. Robert Bund. Cachet is thermographed.

 

N/A			1941-12-07 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) BACKDATED
			Category

Back side of the Dec 7 1941 cover shows the mailing address of William R. Welch. Authentic Device used, but backated. About a dozen of these covers appeared in the hobby around March 1942. See April 2018 LOG article about these covers.

 

			1942-04-18 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-38
			Official Business

Used at Mare Island while under repair for damage sustainted at Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941

 

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