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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.
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1921-04-11 |
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1927-04-12 |
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Official Business |
Back red Type 9v (x2) marks and purple WASHINGTON D.C. REG. SEC. 1927-04-17...Black rubberstamp "179364" and 3 wax seals
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1927-08-17 |
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1931-02-09 |
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Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong
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1931-05-30 |
Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
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1932-09-09 |
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1933-01-06 |
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Official Business |
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1933-03-08 |
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Official Business |
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1933-05-25 |
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1933-10-27 |
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Navy Day 1933 |
Back SAN PEDRO CALIF NAVAL STA duplex 1933-10-30
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N/A |
1934-05-31 |
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Presidential Review |
Add-on cachet by Stewart Milstein
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1934-06-13 |
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Postcard use
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1935-01-08 |
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1935-07-03 |
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Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers
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1935-07-04 |
Cachet Makers: Kalakaua Stamp Club and
Honolulu Advertiser Stamp Collectors Corner.
Front of the cover has an Aiglon Society cachet by Philip Akeo.
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1935-07-04 |
Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers
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1935-07-26 |
Cachet Maker: Leslie S Merrell
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1935-10-27 |
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Navy Day 1935 |
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1936-11-11 |
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1939-03-02 |
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East Coast Cruise |
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1939-11-23 |
Cachet Maker: Donald R Graf.
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1941-04-07 |
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Note: Cover included a note from the Tennessee's Navy Mail Clerk stating: "Damage due to this cover being immersed in sea water as the result of an airplane crash at sea."
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1941-05-07 |
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Patriotic |
Minkus Cachet addressed to Herman Lindner
Back pencil notation "T.H."...Blue printed Minkus copyright lower right
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1943-07-26 |
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Censored wartime (WWII) use
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1943-09-25 |
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Official Business |
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1943-11-12 |
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Official Business |
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1944-10-07 |
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Censored wartime (WWII) use
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1945-09-13 |
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Registered use
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1945-10-04 |
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N/A |
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1945-10-05 |
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Port Visit |
From the David Pallante collection. LATER NOTE- the postmark date is probably "Oct 25" during time period TENNESSEE was at Singapore. The "2" likely was poorly inked in the device.
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N/A |
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1945-10-25 |
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Port Visit |
Cachet maker unknown (probably done on board ship)
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N/A |
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1945-11-02 |
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Port Visit |
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1945-11-04 |
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Postcard use
Ceylon
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1945-11-15 |
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Port Visit |
Cachet maker unknown (probably done on board ship)
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1945-12-06 |
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Official Business |
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1946-06-01 |
Cachet Makers: Walter Czubay and
Neil F Nielsen
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