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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		N/A	1932-07-04 Locy Type 5hks "GREENPORT / NEW YORK"
			Independence Day

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N/A		N/A	1934-01-14 Locy Type 5hks "CUBAN / WATERS"
			Port Visit

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N/A		N/A	1934-05-15 Locy Type 3s (AC-BBT) "GONAIVES / HAITI"
			Ad cover for Knox Gelatine

Courtesy of the Richard Jones collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1934-05-15 Locy Type 3s (AC-BBT) "GONAIVES / HAITI"
			Ad cover for the Tropical Hotel Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Courtesy of the Richard Jones collection.

 

No Image			1934-06-18 Locy Type 3s (AC-BBT) "N.Y. FLEET / REVIEW."
			Category

Back pencil notation ship / cancel info

 

No Image			1934-10-05 Locy Type 3s (AC-BBT) "GONAIVES / AREA HAITI"
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1934-11-11 Locy Type 3s (AC-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Armistice Day

Cachet by C. Wright Richell and sponsored by Marshall R. Hall

 

N/A		N/A	1936-01-02 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Collectors request

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			1936-08-05 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) PORTLAND / OREGON
			Fleet Week Portland Rose Festival

Notes: Cachet Maker: William S Linto.
Cachet is partly thermographed (lettering).
Cover had postmarks from USS Chester CA-27, USS Goff DD-247, and USS Reuben James DD-245.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-06-23 Locy Type 3br (AC-XBX) "PORTSMOUTH / VIRGINI" Locy Type 6ep (3) Locy Type 9v
			Collectors request

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			1939-11-15 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "DECOMMISSION / PORTMOUTH NH" Locy Type F "FIRST TIME THIS / TYPE CANCEL"
			USS SQUALUS SS-192 Decommissioning

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N/A			1940-05-12 Locy Type F "MOTHER'S DAY / U.S.S. GOFF" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. G-53c Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "MOHTER / OF MINE" (on the back)
			Mothers Day

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N/A		N/A	1940-05-12 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "FATHER'S / DAY"
			Fathers Day

Cachet by Walter Czubay

 

N/A		N/A	1941-02-07 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "BALBOA / CANAL ZONE"
			Canal visit

Add-on cachet by Bruce Liddell

 

N/A		N/A	1941-02-11 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "BALBOA / CANAL ZONE"
			Canal visit

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

N/A		N/A	1941-04-11 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT)
			Collectors request

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			1941-10-27 Locy Type 3z (BTT)
			Navy Day 1941

Nuemann Cachet

 

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