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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

			1927-09-30 Locy Type 6 (25mm)
			Category

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			1929-03-08 Locy Type 6 (27mm)
			Category

Official Business

No Image			1930-12-31 Locy Type 6 (27mm)
			Category

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			1932-07-30 Locy Type 5hks "HOSPITAL SHIP / U.S.NAVY"
			10th Olympiad Los Angeles

Back 10th Olympiad label

			1932-12-08 Locy Type 5hks "MARE ISLAND / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Violet box date "TAKE OUT" 1932-12-19
Back violet date stamp 1932-12-09

No Image			1933-03-31 Locy Type 5hks "BUY / AMERICAN"
			Category

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			1933-11-16 Locy Type 5hks "HOSPITAL SHIP / AT SEA"
			USS MACON

Cachet signed A H Voss

			1933-12-20 Locy Type 5hks "DR.A.PARE / BORN 1510"
			Dr. Ambroise Pare Birthday

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No Image			1933-12-25 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "PEACE / ON EARTH"
			Christmas Day 1933

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			1933-12-25 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) PEACE / ON EARTH
			Christmas Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.

 

			1934-01-04 Locy Type 5hks "2ND MANEUVERS / MACON AT SEA"
			USS MACON

Cachet by A H Voss

No Image			1934-02-14 Locy Type 5hks "LOVERS / FESTIVAL"
			Valentine Day 1934

Powell
Irving E. Kennedy
C. Lacombe

 

			1934-02-17 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT)  Killer: R.T. LAENNEC / BORN 1781 Locy Type 6 (AT SEA)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Dr. Harry H Kretzler.

N/A		N/A	1934-02-20 Locy Type 5hks "COMMEMORATE / OLD IRONSIDES" USS Relief AH-1
			Saluting "Old Ironsides" on her victory against HMS Cyane & HMS Levant, Feb. 20, 1815

Cachet Artist Clyde G. Morris, sponsored by A. H. G. Voss, W. P. D'Amour and Walter G. Crosby. Signed by Voss and D'Amour, both Navy Mail Clerks aboard USS Relief.

 

			1934-02-22 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "FATHER OF / OUR COUNTRY"
			Washington's Birthday

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			1934-03-04 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "A.G. BELL / BORN 1847"
			Alexander Graham Bell Birthday

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			1934-04-09 Locy Type 5hks "LEAVING BUT / COMING BACK"
			Atlantic Cruise

Morris Cachet

 

			1934-04-10 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "MACON SOME- / WHERE AT SEA"
			USS MACON

Cachet by A H Voss

 

			1934-06-02 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "NEW YORK / N. Y."
			Category

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			1934-06-08 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) CHANGE IN / COMMAND
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: L A Powell.
Notation on the back says "1 of 1".

No Image			1934-06-14 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "FLAG DAY / NEW YORK NY"
			Flag Day 1934

Cachet possibly by Kay Ferris

No Image			1934-06-17 Locy Type 5hks "FATHERS' DAY / NEW YORK, N.Y."
			Fathers Day 1934

Back is clean

 

			1934-08-19 Locy Type 5hks "VICTORY FOR / OLD IRONSIDES"
			Category

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			1934-11-11 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "ARMISTICE / DAY"
			Armistice Day 1934

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			1934-12-13 Locy Type 9
			Category

Add on cachet

 

			1935-01-01 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) NEW YEAR'S / BEST WISHES
			New Year's Day

Notes: Cachet Makers: Henry Kraus and Tulsa World.

 

No Image			1935-05-19 Locy Type 5hks "PEARL HARBOR / TERR.HAWAII"
			Category

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			1936-08-08 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "PORTLAND / OREGON"
			Fleet Week 1936

Linto Cachet
Cover also bears postmarks from USS SOUTHARD DD-207, USS GOFF DD-247, USS REUBEN JAMES DD-245 and USS HOVEY DD-208 on the front and back.

 

			1937-06-18 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF"
			Navy Mother's Clubs

USCS Chapter 14 Cachet

			1937-11-25 Locy Type 3r (AC-BTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF"
			Thanksgiving Day 1937

Helen E. Dye Cachet (signed HED in lower left corner)

 

			1938-07-06 Locy Type 3r (AC-BTT) MARE ISLAND / CALIF
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Jerry Pierce.

No Image		No Image	1939-09-30 Locy Type 9v Locy Type 9efw Locy Type 9x
			Category

Three Type 9's on card stock

			1940-11-28 Locy Type 5hks "HONOLULU / HAWAII"
			Christmas 1940

USCS Chapter 55 Cachet

No Image			1946-06-07 Locy Type LDPS 3
			Last Day Postal Service

Tazewell G. Nicholson R/S marking on back

			1946-06-07 Locy Type LDPS 3
			Last Day Postal Service

Sadworth Cachet
Back Nicholson black rubberstamp...Typed notation "B-2544"...

 

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