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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

N/A			1937-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "OUR 1ST / NEW YEAR"
			New Year's Day 1937

Cachet artist is Ted Broglis, cachet sponsored by the Moffett Chapter No. 6, USCS

N/A			1937-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "OUR FIRST" / NEWYEARSDAY"
			New Year's Day 1937

Cachet artist is J. Enos, sponsored by Walter G. Crosby

			1937-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS" Locy Type F "WISHING ALL A / HAPPY NEW YEAR" USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration M-37
			New Year's Day 1937

Cacheted

N/A			1937-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS"
			New Year's Day 1937

Mickey Mouse Cachet

N/A			1937-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS"
			New Year's Day 1937

Bridgeton NJ 250th Anniversary postmarked from USS Trenton CL 11. Sponsored by the Bridgeton Stamp Club

N/A			1937-01-15 Locy Type P (Killer Bars Covered) USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration M-37b
			No Cachet

Note:

			1937-01-18 Locy Type P "BOSTON / MASS" USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration M-37b Locy Type F "FIRST / MOFFETT" USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration M-37
			Category

Note:

N/A			1937-02-09 Locy Type P (Killer Bars Covered) USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration M-37b
			American Battle Anniversaries

Cachet by Eugene C. Laird

			1937-02-11 Locy Type P (Killer Bars Covered) USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration M-37b Locy Type P "BOSTON / MASS" USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration M-37c
			Category

Embossed and signed by NMC

N/A			1937-02-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "THE GREAT / EMANCIPATOR"
			Lincoln's Birthday

Cacheted

N/A			1937-02-15 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "REMEMBER / THE MAINE"
			Historic America Series

Cachet by Eugene C. Laird

N/A			1937-02-16 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS"
			American Battle Anniversaries Series

Cachet by Eugene C. Laird

N/A			1937-02-22 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "1ST PRESIDENT / OF OUR USA"
			Washington's Birthday

Cacheted

			1937-02-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS"
			Launching of USS CRAVEN DD-382

Lloyd A. Nace Cachet

			1937-03-27 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "BOSTON, MASS / NAVY YARD" Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. M-37 "DAVY JONES / LOCKER"
			Last Day of the Type F postmark.

Signed by Leslie A. Miller NMC and Louis C. Weigand.

N/A		N/A	1937-03-27 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "BOSTON, MASS / NAVY YARD" Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. M-37 "DAVY JONES / LOCKER"
			Last Day of the Type F postmark.

Signed by Leslie A. Miller NMC and Louis C. Weigand. From the Tom Kean collection.

N/A			1937-04-01 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "BOSTON MASS / NAVY YARD"
			April Fools Day

Cacheted

N/A			1937-04-15 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "NORFOLK VA / VIRGINIA"
			Special Service Cruise for FDR

Cacheted

			1937-04-19 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "PORTSMOUTH / VIRGINIA"
			Category

Cachet Makers: Richard Buchwald and Norwood B. Scatchard.

N/A			1937-04-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "NEWORLEANS / LOUISIANA"
			Category

Note:

N/A			1937-04-29 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "NEWORLEANS / LOUISIANA"
			Special Service Cruise for FDR

Cachet by Emil A. Thurman

N/A			1937-05-02 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "AT SEA,GULF / OF MEXICO"
			Special Service Cruise for FDR

Cachet by Richard Buchwald

N/A			1937-05-04 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "PORT ISABEL / TEXAS"
			Special Service Cruise for FDR

Cachet by Richard Buchwald

N/A			1937-05-06 (AM) Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "PORT ARANSAS / TEXAS"
			Special Service Cruise for FDR

Cachet by Richard Buchwald and Norwood B. Scatchard

			1937-05-06 (PM) Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "HINDENBURG / EXPLODES"
			Hindenburg Explosion

Back 1937-05-07 New York, N.Y. City Hall Annex CDS

N/A			1937-05-11 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "GALVESTON / TEXAS"
			Special Service Cruise for FDR

Cachet by Richard Buchwald

N/A			1937-05-13 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "HAVANA / CUBA"
			Special Service Cruise for FDR

Cachet by Richard Buchwald

N/A			1937-05-18 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "CHARLESTON, / SO.CAROLINA"
			Special Service Cruise for FDR

Cachet by Richard Buchwald

N/A			1937-05-20 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "PORTSMOUTH, / VIRGINIA"
			Special Service Cruise for FDR

Cachet by Richard Buchwald

N/A			1937-05-21 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS"
			Special Service Cruise for FDR

Cachet by Richard Buchwald

N/A			1937-05-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "BOSTON / (Empty)"
			Photo cachet

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

			1937-05-30 Locy Type P dial Locy Type SLK w/ separate dater
			Memorial Day

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

N/A			1937-06-14 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "ROCKLAND / MAINE"
			Port Visit

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

N/A			1937-06-24 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS"
			Commissioning of USS Gridley DD-380

Cachet by C. Wright Richell

N/A			1937-06-24 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "WELCOME / GRIDLEY"
			Commissioning of USS Gridley DD-380

Cachet by C. Wright Richell

N/A			1937-07-01 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS"
			Namesake Cachet

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

N/A			1937-07-04 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS"
			Independence Day

Add-on Cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

N/A			1937-07-04 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS"
			Special Service Cruise for FDR Independence Day

Cachet by Norwood B. Scatchard

N/A			1937-07-06 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "NAVYYARD / BOSTON MASS"
			Labor Day

Cachet by Richard Buchwald

N/A			1937-07-13 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "CHARLESTOWN / NYD.BOSTON"
			First Day of Issue, Northwest Territory Sesquicentennial stamp. Also struck with a Boston Mass machine cancel.

Cachet by Henry Grimsland (Backdated)

N/A			1937-07-13 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "FIRST DAY / OF ISSUE"
			First Day of Issue, Northwest Territory Sesquicentennial stamp. Also struck with a Boston Mass machine cancel.

Cachet by Henry Grimsland (Backdated)

			1937-08-28 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS" (11:22 in the dial is the time the bottle hit the bow during the commissioning ceremony in 1936)
			1st Anniversary

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

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