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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

			1914-02-18 Locy Type 3 (A) "GUANTANAMO / BAY" USCS Catalog Illustration V-8
			Category

Postcard use
Manzanillo Cuba

			1915-02-05 Locy Type 3r (AC) "GUANTANAMO / BAY CUBA"
			Category

Postcard use
"Doing the Marketing, Caimancra. / (Guantanamo Bay,) Cuba."

No Image			1916-02-10 Locy Type 3b (B-XOO)
			Category

Front pencil notations "Note Reverse"..."Early "Vestal" spaced different"
Back Blue printed return to ship at New York

			1917-02-28 Locy Type 3 (AC) "AT / SEA" USCS Catalog Illustration V-8b
			Category

Postcard use
Harris Brothers postcard depicting Tacon Market, Havana Cuba

			1920-02-18 Locy Type 3 (AC) " / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Back black pen return to ship at San Francisco

No Image			1922-12-13 Locy Type 3s
			Category

Front red pencil notation ".75"...pencil notation "AC 1"
Back black pen return to ship at San Pedro

			1923-03-02 Locy Type 3s
			Category

Postcard use
U.S.S. DESTROYERS, PEDRO MIGUEL LOCKS, PANAMA CANAL

			1926-06-04 Locy Type 3r (A) "BLOCK I. / R"
			Category

Penalty envelope use
Front pencil notation "T-3r (A)
Back multiple pencil notations...Red rubberstamp "7829"

 

			1928-05-14 Locy Type 9v Navy Yard Portsmouth Virginia
			Category

Notes: Registered, Official Business from USS Vestal AR-4

No Image			1931-08-11 Locy Type 6
			Category

Back blue rubberstamp "AUG 13 REC'D"

 

			1932-09-27 Locy Type 6
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Harry Ioor

			1933-06-10 Locy Type 6
			Category

USCS John Paul Jones Chapter #2 Cachet
Back SEATTLE WASH Machine 1933-06-10

 

			1934-11-29 Locy Type 3s (A-TTT) SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA
			Thanksgiving Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: Henry Kraus

			1935-05-28 Locy Type 3s (A-TTT)
			John Rodgers

Honolulu Star Bulletin / USCS Chapter 26 Cachet

No Image			1936-08-05 Locy Type 3s (A-TTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Back SAN PEDRO CALIF. Machine cancel

			c1937 Locy Type SLKb (53x8)
			Category

Gold foil USS VESTAL applied label
Back black rubberstamp "SPONSORED BY / MOFFETT CHAPTER"...Violet rubberstamp Joseph F Koehl return

 

No Image			1937-01-06 Locy Type 3s (A-TTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Hand painted cachet

 

			1937-07-04 Locy Type SLPb (53x8)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Lloyd A Nace
Cachet is thermographed. The last digit of the year is illegible. 1937 is a best guess based on the known range for this type of postmark.

No Image		No Image	1937-12-25 Locy Type 9v Locy Type 9efw Locy Type 9x Locy Type SLKbs 1940-01-01 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) "RING IN THE / NEW YEAR"
			Christmas Day 1937 / New Years Day 1940

Multiple cancel cover using 1937 Christmas Seals
Back is clean

No Image			1938-01-04 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Back blue rubberstamp M. B. OWENS USCS Member

No Image			1938-09-14 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF"
			Category

Back blue pencil notation "Join The / U.S.C.S."

 

			1938-09-23 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) SAN PEDRO / CALIF
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 14 ADM Joseph M Reeves, Lottie Eshliman and H J Lindhardt
Eshliman is the artist. You can see her name at the bottom of the brick wall just above "AMERICAN"

 

No Image			1939-06-15 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) SAN PEDRO / CALIF
			Category

Notes:

			1940-01-01 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) "RING IN THE / NEW YEAR"
			New Years Day 1940

Sadworth New Year Greetings Cachet...Sponsored by Burkholder
Back is clean

			1940-04-27 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "PEARL HARBOR / T H"
			Category

Note:

 

			1940-06-16 Locy Type F  (USCS Illustration V-8c) FIRST DAY / THIS CANCEL
			Father's Day

Notes: Cachet is thermographed.

No Image			1941- -10 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB)
			Category

Date not clear
Back purple pen return to ship at San Pedro

 

No Image			1941-07-04 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB)
			Category

Notes:

No Image			1941-07-26 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB)
			Category

Back is clean

			1941-10-27 Locy Type Fz USCS Catalog Illustration V-8e
			Navy Day 1941

U.S.C.S. Chapter 2 Cachet
Front pencil notation "AR 4"...Red rubberstamp "R in circle"
Back blue rubberstamp D.C. Bartley return...Black pen "Vestal"...Black rubberstamp "793184"

			1942-03-07 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Liddell add on photo cachet
Censored wartime (WWII) use
Back black pen notation "Vestal"

 

			1942-05-28 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Remember Pearl Harbor

Notes: Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed. The postmark month is illegible but a letter inside the cover was dated May 27, 1942.

 

			1943-05-19 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1944-04-21 Locy Type 2z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

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