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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

 

No Image			1924-02-25 Locy Type 3 (AC)
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1924-04-04 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel San Francisco CA
			Incoming mail to the Ship's CO

From the Tom Kean collection.

 

			1924-07-07 Locy Type 3 (AC) " /RHODE ISLAND"
			Category

Postcard use
"RESIDENCES OF C. OGDEN JONES, J. R. DREXEL, and F. PEARSON NEWPORT, R. I.

 

No Image			1928-02-02 Locy Type 9v(C) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-58 Locy Type PPO (mute oval with diagonal lines) 1928-02-07 Washington D.C. Registered
			Official Business

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No Image			1931-07-07 Locy Type 6 (AT SEA)
			Category

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No Image			1931-12-15 Locy Type 6
			Category

Back BREMERTON WASH. NAVY YARD STA machine cancel 1931-12-15

 

No Image			1934-01-01 Locy Type 6
			Category

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			1934-05-10 Locy Type 6 with "CARIBBEAN SEA" added separately
			Guantanamo Bay

Cachet Maker: R L Razzette.

 

			1934-08-30 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "ELEVENTH / ANNIVERSARY"
			Ship's Birthday

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			1934-10-14 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "GUANTANAMO / BAY CUBA"
			Category

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			1934-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) 13 NAVY DAY / BALBOA C.Z.
			Navy Day

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 16 Edwin Denby and Lloyd A Nace.

 

			1934-11-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Armistice Day 1934 (Day late)

Elton O. Clem Cachet

 

			1934-11-29 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Elton O. Clem

 

			1935-04-21 Locy Type 6
			Easter

Cachet by Lt. A. D. Hunter, USN

 

			1935-08-05 Locy Type 6
			Category

Cachet Maker: Tom Morrissey.

 

			1936-03-06 Locy Type 7dr
			Category

Cachet Maker: John Coulthard

 

			1936-03-06 Locy Type 7dr
			Category

Cachet Maker: Fred Wayman

 

			1936-05-09 Locy Type 7dr
			Fleet Maneuvers

Cachet Maker: Sarah Litton.

 

			1936-08-30 Locy Type 7dr  (USS Colorado BB-45) Locy Type 9  (USS Raleigh CL-7) Locy Type SLKsl (74x7)  (USS Raleigh CL-7)
			Ship Birthday - USS Colorado BB-45

Cachet Maker: Tazewell G Nicholson

 

			1936-10-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "COLUMBUS / DAY PSNY"
			Columbus Day

Cachet Maker: Douglas C. & Harry F. Wentz

 

N/A		N/A	1937-07-04 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "ENROUTE / HOWLAND IS"
			Amelia Earhart Search

Rubber stamp cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1937-11-11
			Armistice Day

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby. From the Karl Schweinfurth collection.

 

			1937-11-19 Locy Type 9v (C)
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1937-12-02 Locy Type 7dr
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1937-12-25 Locy Type 7dr
			Christmas Day 1937

USCS Chapter 22 Cachet

 

No Image			1938-07-26 Locy Type SLKbs
			Category

Hand painted Cachet

 

			1938-10-02 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF."
			Category

Crosby Cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1938-10-27 Locy Type 7dr
			Navy Day

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

			1939-04-29 Locy Type 7dr Locy Type 9v (C) Locy Type 9efw Locy Type 9x
			Category

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			1939-05-22 Locy Type 7dr
			Memorial Day

Cachet Maker: Crosby
Cachet with picture of USS Saratoga CV-3 but cancelled on USS Colorado BB-45.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-07-25 Locy Type 7dr
			Fleet Week

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge

 

			1939-10-27 Locy Type 7dr
			Navy Day 1939

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			1941-12-14 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1942-01-31 Locy Type 7drz
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

No Image			1943-07-23 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z4
			Category

Censored Officer's Mail

 

			1943-06-23 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z4
			Independence Day Menu Insert from the July 23 1943 cover

Censored Officer's Mail

 

			1943-12-07 Locy Type Fz (CD-Z4)
			Remember Pearl Harbor

Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1945-06-01 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-58c 1945-06-02 New York NY imcomplete 1945-06-11 Washington D.C. Reg. Sec. 1945-06-12 Washington D.C. U.S. Fleet Post Office
			Official Business

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			1945-09-02 Locy Type 2# (Br. #16029)
			Tokyo Bay

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1945-11-22 Locy Type 7dr
			Thanksgiving 1945

Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 22
Back purple pen notation "S-1926"

 

N/A		N/A	1946-02-20 Locy Type 2(n)
			Collectors request

Cachet by Marjorie Wilson, courtesy of the Tom Kean collection.

 

No Image			1946-04-17 Locy Type 2(n)
			Collectors request

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			1946-06-20 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Last Day Postal Service

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