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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
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Cachet Category


 

N/A

N/A

1943

$1.00 Receipt

Contributed One Dollar towards the Construction of the Ship.


 

1944-02-24
Locy Type 2z*

Launching

Cachet by Glenn W. Dye


 

1944-02-24
USPO Machine Cancel
Portsmouth VA

Launching

Cachet by Gordon H. Hamilton, sponsored by the Pittsburgh Crew, ANCS


 

N/A

N/A

1944-02-24
USPO Duplex Cancel
"Navy Yard Sta."
Portsmouth VA

Launching

Cacheted


 

N/A

N/A

1944-02-24
USPO Duplex Cancel
"Navy Yard Sta."
Portsmouth VA

Launching

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson. From the John Young collection.


 

1944-11-27
Locy Type 2z

Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use


 

1945-02-20
Locy Type 2z

Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Cachet by Jacques Minkus


 

1945-06-24
Locy Type 2z

Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use


 

1945-09-14
Locy Type 9efu

1945-09-19
Locy Type 2z

1945-09-26
Washington D.C. Reg. Sec.
Washington D.C. U.S. Fleet Post Office

Official Business

Note:


 

1945-09-26
Locy Type Pz
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-37

Tokyo Bay

Note:


 

1945-09-28
Locy Type Pz
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-37

Tokyo Bay

Note:


 

1945-10-27
Locy Type 2(n) Oct 27, 1945

Navy Day 1945

Add on cachet


 

N/A

N/A

1945-11-11
Locy Type 2(n) (CV)

Armistice Day

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge


 

1945-12-05
Locy Type 2(n) (CV)

Category

Note:


 

1946-07-01
Locy Type 2(n) (CV)

"Operation Crossroads", 1st test "Able"

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby


 

N/A

N/A

1946-07-26
Locy Type 2(n) (CV)

"Operation Crossroads", 2nd test "Baker"

Stuffer card suggests this is a Von Losberg cachet. I believe it is a Michael Sanders cachet. (Greg Ciesielski).


 

No Image

1951-06-04
Locy Type FDPS 2(n)

First Day Postal Service

USCS Postmark Catalog lists only a FDPS 9ef(nu)


 

No Image

1951-06-26
Locy Type 2
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-37b

Category

Note:


 

1952-05-10
Locy Type 2
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-37c

Korea 1952

Note:


 

No Image

1955-01-21
Locy Type FDPS 2
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-37d

First Day Postal Service

Notes: Cachet Maker: Tom Morrissey


 

1955-01-21
Locy Type FDPS 2
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-37d

First Day Postal Service

Cachet Maker: Tom Morrissey


 

1955-03-09
Locy Type 2
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-37d

Category

Note:


 

No Image

1958-11-03
Locy Type 2t(n+u)
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-37f

Category

Note:


 

Locy Type 2t(n+u)
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-37g

Project Mercury

Add on cachet


 

No Image

1963-03-08
Locy Type 7tn+u (C+,USS)

Category

Note:


 

1965-09-15
Locy Type 2(n+) (USS, no hyphen)

21st Anniversary of Commissioning

Note:


 

1966-10-27
Locy Type 2(n+) (CVS,USS)

Navy Day 1966

Note:


 

No Image

1971-07-12
Locy Type FAKE

Category

USCS Postmark Catalog states..."The 2t(nu) cancel with "BOSTON/MASS." in the killers was privately made and not authorized"

 


 

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