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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	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text Ship --------- Category

 

N/A		N/A	1931-09-08 Locy Type 3s (A)
			Category

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

			1933-12-03 Locy Type 3s (A) "CUBAN / WATERS"
			Category

Add on cachet by Mike Hebert

 

N/A		N/A	1933-12-25 Locy Type 3s (A) "KEY WEST / FLORIDA"
			Category

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

			1934-01-16 Locy Type 3s (A) "CUBAN / WATERS"
			Category

Posted while in Rotating Reserve. Post Office open through 5 January 1935

 

N/A		N/A	1934-03-21 Locy Type 3s (A) "CHARLESTON / SO.CAROLINA"
			Category

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

			1934-04-22 Locy Type 3s (A) "NEW ORLEANS / LOUISIANA"
			USS MACON

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			1934-05-11 Locy Type 3s (A) "NEW ORLEANS / LOUISIANA"
			Port Visit

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N/A			1934-10-27 Locy Type 3s (A) "NAVY DAY / BEAUMONT TEX"
			Navy Day 1934

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N/A			1934-11-29 Locy Type 3s (A) "THANKSGIVING / NEW ORLEANS"
			THANKSGIVING

Cachet by Leslie Onzay and Emil A. Thurman. Cover bears a seal of unknown origin but records indicate that Leslie Onzay may have been New Jersey State Prisoner #13760 and this seal might have been from that facility.

 

N/A		N/A	1934-12-25 Locy Type 3s (A) "NEW ORLEANS / CHRISTMAS"
			Category

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

			1935-02-22 Locy Type 3s (A) "ANNAPOLIS / MD"
			Washington's Birthday

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N/A		N/A	1935-08-30 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-2
			Category

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

N/A		N/A	1935-09-09 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "FIRST CAN- / CELLATION"
			Category

This T-3 cancel was used for several weeks in 1935 with "FIRST CAN-/CELLATION" in the killers, when the ship was serving in Rotating Reserve.

 

N/A		N/A	1935-09-30 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "U.S. NAVAL / ACADEMY"
			Category

Cachet by Clarence E. Reid

 

			1935-10-24 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "U.S. NAVAL / ACADEMY"
			Ship's Birthday

Cachet by Ted Harrington

 

			1936-02-21 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "OUR FLEET / IS GROWING"
			Launching of USS SELFRIDGE DD-357

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			1936-04-04 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "YORKTOWN / LAUNCHED" Locy Type SLKb(n)
			Ship Launching of USS Yorktown CV-5

Cachet by the Naval Cachet And Cancel Club

 

			1938-08-13 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT)
			Port Visit Hamilton, Bermuda USS ROPER DD-147 USS SCHENCK DD-159 USS TILLMAN DD-135 USS DICKERSON DD-157

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N/A			1938-10-24 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB)
			Category

Back has PLAINFIELD NJ duplex 1938-10-27

 

N/A		N/A	1938-10-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB)
			Navy Day

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

N/A		N/A	1939-05-05 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-1d Locy Type 9x
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1939-05-05 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-1d Locy Type 9x
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1939-10-07 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB)
			Category

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

			1940-02-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB)
			Lincoln's Birthday

Cachet by Marshall R Hall and International Cover Guild. Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1941-09-30 Locy Type Fake USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-3
			Ship's data

Cachet by Hobby Shop

 

			1941-09-30 Locy Type Fake USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-3
			Ship's data

Cachet by Hobby Shop

 

			1944-07-18 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-1c
			Official Business

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