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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			1932-02-01 Locy Type 5hk "GONAIVES / HAITI" US Destroyer Squadron One Scouting Force
			Port Visit

Note: USS DICKERSON SL marking in the corner.

N/A		N/A	1934-05-16 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "GONAIVES / HAITI"
			Sailors mail

Courtesy of the Richard Jones collection.

 

			1934-05-31 Locy Type P (cut up type 9) USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration D-38 Locy Type SLO "PRESIDENT'S REVIEW / U.S. FLEET, NEW YORK, NY"
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No Image			1934-07-04 Locy Type P (cut up type 9) "158th INDEPENDENCE / DAY / ST AUGUSTINE, FLA." USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration D-38
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			1935-02-22 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "WASHINGTON / BIRTHDAY"
			Washington's Birthday

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No Image			1935-06-12 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "R.O.T.C. / CHAS.S.C."
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No Image			1935-06-17 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "R.O.T.C. / NORFOLK VA"
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No Image			1935-06-22 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "R.O.T.C. / SAN JUAN PR"
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			1935-10-28 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "CHARLESTON / S.C."
			Navy Day 1935

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No Image			1936-06-22 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "CHRISTOBAL / C. Z."
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Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

			1938-02-02 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "CULEBRA / P.R."
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Postcard use
"CASA BLANCA (WHITE HOUSE) RESIDENCE OF JUAN PONCE DE LEON. / FIRST GOVERNOR OF PUERTO RICO (1508)

			1939-03-17 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "CHARLESTON / S.C."
			St. Patrick's Day 1939

Back green/blue Norman K. Mary return...Blue John H. Brandt return
NEW YORK NY INW Duplex 1939-03-24

			1939-09-03 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "NORFOLK / VA" Type 9v
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Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

			c1942 Locy Type 3z (TTT)
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			1944-08-10 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z3
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Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

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