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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	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text Ship --------- Category

N/A		N/A	1864-12-26 USPO CDS Mexico NY
			Sailors Mail

Incoming mail to ship at Panama, New Granada. From the Gary B. Weiss collection.

N/A		N/A	1865-01-09 USPO CDS Mexico NY
			Sailors Mail

Incoming mail to ship at Panama, New Granada

N/A			1871-07-26 Oval Ships Marking Unreadable CDS
			Sailors Mail

Courtesy of the Jim Myerson collection.

N/A			1882-11-22 Duplex Cancel Napoli (Naples) Italy
			Letter to Capt Henry C. Cochrane, USMC

Mailed from Naples Italy on 22 November 1882, back stamped in Salerno Italy on 24 November 1882.

N/A		N/A	1884-10-15 Duplex Cancel Brighton England
			Letter to Dr. S. Henderson Griffith USN

Mailed from Brighton, England on 15 October 1884, back stamped in Lisbon, Portugal on 21 October 1884.

N/A			1885-04-08 CDS Dakar Senegal
			Sailors mail

Backstamped, Rio de Janeiro 8 April 1885 CDS, New York paid duplex 4 May 1885.

N/A			1886-06-28 USPO "PAID" Duplex Cancel Philadelphia PA
			Letter to Dr. S. Henderson Griffith USN

Mailed from Philadelphia PA on 28 June 1886, back stamped in London, England on 9 July 1886.

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