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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 --------- Cachet Category

 

			1927-11-29 Locy Type 3s (B)
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No Image			1928-07-30 Locy Type 8
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No Image			1929-08-06 Locy Type 6g-1 ("EARATOGA")
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No Image		No Image	1929-08-30 Locy Type 6g "EARATOGA"
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			1930-04-09 Locy Type 3s (A) "BRIDGETOWN / BARBADOS"
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Official Business

 

No Image			1931-04-15 Locy Type 6g ("EARATOGA")
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			1932-06-14 Locy Type 6gp(1) USCS Catalog Illustration S-22d
			Category

Official Business

 

			1932-10-27 Locy Type 7t
			Navy Day

Note: Cachet Maker: Harry Ioor

 

			1933-11-30 Locy Type 7t
			Category

Photo Postcard

 

		No Image	1933-12-16 Locy Type 7t
			Ship Christening - USS Astoria CA-34

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		No Image	1934-01-28 Locy Type 6gp-1 27.5 mm dial (USCS Illustration S-22d)
			Port Visit - Puget Sound Navy Yard

Note: Cachet Makers: Lt A D Hunter USN and USCS Chapter 2 John Paul Jones

 

No Image			1934-02-22 Locy Type 6gp(1) USCS Catalog Illustration S-22d
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Hand painted cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1934-03-22 Locy Type 6gp-1 27.5 mm dial USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-22d
			Ship to Shore Flight

Contributed by Tom Kean

 

No Image		No Image	1934-05-31 Locy Type 6gp-1 27.5 mm dial (USCS Illustration S-22d)
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No Image			1934-05-31 Locy Type 6gp(1) USCS Catalog Illustration S-22d
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No Image			1934-06-04 Locy Type 7t
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No Image			1934-10-12 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) GUANTANAMO / CUBA
			Columbus Day

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No Image			1934-10-27 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "NAVY DAY / BALBOA, C.Z."
			Navy Day 1934

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No Image		No Image	1934-11-16 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) OUR SEVENTH / BIRTHDAY
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No Image			1935-02-12 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "MACON / CRASHES"
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			1935-03-17 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) ST PATRICK'S / BIRTHDAY
			St Patrick's Day

Notes: Cachet Makers: Byrd L Powell and Ted DeNyse
Cachet is thermographed.

 

No Image			1935-03-20 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) 25,000 / LANDINGS!
			Cachet Category

Note: Cachet Maker: Byrd L. Powell

 

No Image			1935-03-20 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) 25,000 / LANDINGS!
			Cachet Category

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			1935-05-13 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "HONOLULU / HAWAII"
			Port Visit Hawaii

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			1935-08-10 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "HAPPY / LANDINGS"
			Fleet Week 1935

Cachet by John Coulthard

 

No Image			1935-10-27 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) NAVY DAY / P S N Y
			Navy Day

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 2 John Paul Jones, Deane C Bartley and Whipple Y Chester

 

			1935-11-16 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) BIRTHDAY / GREETINGS
			Ship Birthday

Notes: Cachet Makers: Norman K Mary, C Wright Richell and ANCS 221.
I could not find a name for ANCS member 221.

 

			1936-04-04 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "USS / YORKTOWN"
			Launching of USS YORKTOWN CV-5

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		No Image	1937-06-21 Locy Type 7t
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1937-09-06 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) BREMERTON / WASHINGTON
			Labor Day

Note: Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 22 Battleship Oregon

 

			1937-09-14 Locy Type 7t
			Category

Official Business

 

			1937-11-16 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "AT / SEA"
			Ship's 10th Birthday

Horton Cachet

 

			1938-02-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT)
			Lincoln's Birthday

Notes: Cachet Maker: Leslie S Merrell

 

			1939-02-18 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT)
			Golden Gate Exposition

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			1939-05-22 Locy Type 7dr USS Colorado BB-45
			Memorial Day

Notes: Walter G Crosby.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1939-09-14 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) LONG BEACH / CALIFORNIA
			125th Anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner

Notes: Cachet Makers: G W Buckler and Bette Tambling

 

			1940-04-21 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) 50,000 / LANDINGS
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: Frank Kuss, Norman K Mary and Byrd L Powell

 

			1941-04-07 Locy Type 7t
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Sibley's Department Store Hobby Shop

 

No Image			1941-11-11 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT)
			Armistice Day

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			1943-09-18 Locy Type 3z (TTT)
			Category

Official Business

 

			1946-02-18 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Ted Harrington

 

			1946-04-22 Locy Type 2(n) Locy Type 2(n) Locy Type 9v Locy Type 9xz Locy Type 9efw
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			2007-11-16 Locy Type 11-2u (USS,FPO AP 96615) USS John C. Stennis CVN-74
			Ship Commemorative - USS Saratoga CV-3

Cachet by Dan Goodwin

 

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