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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

 

			1940-05-16 Locy Type 2 Bremerton Navy Yard
			Ship Launching

Cachet Makers: Lloyd A Nace and T M Holcombe.
Nace is ICG 9 and Holcomb is ICG 24.
The official launch date is May 23, 1941. Not sure why the date of this cover is so far off the mark.

 

No Image			1941-09-03 Locy Type FDPS 3
			First Day Postal Service

Dr. S. E. Hutnick Cachet

 

No Image			1941-09-03 Locy Type FDPS 3
			First Day Postal Service

Weigand hand painted cachet

 

No Image			1941-09-03 Locy Type FDPS 3
			First Day Postal Service

Weigand hand painted cachet

 

No Image			1941-09-03 Locy Type FDPS 3
			First Day Postal Service

Weigand hand painted cachet

 

No Image			1941-10-24 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

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			1942-01-07 Locy Type 9v 1942-01-08 Boston MA (Navy Yard Sta.) Registered 1942-01-09 New York U.S.A. Foreign 1942-01-10 New York NY Registered
			Official Business

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1942-01-17 Locy Type Fz (CD-Z3)
			Official Business

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			1946-04-18 Locy Type 2rtz
			Category

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			1946-05-01 Locy Type LDPS 2rtz
			Last Day Postal Service

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