USS HELENA CL-50 Covers Page 1
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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 |
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1936-12-09 |
Keel Laying - USS Helena CL-50 |
Cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by
Lloyd A. Nace, ANCS 54
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1938-08-27 |
Ship Launching - USS Helena CL-50 |
Notes: Cachet Makers: Frederick Horton and
Loring W Stannard
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1939-09-18 |
First Day in Commission |
Unknown Cachet
Back pencil notation L.W.S.
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1939-09-18 |
First Day in Commission |
Frederick Horton Cachet
Bruce D. Liddell collection
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1939-09-18 |
Notes: Cachet Makers: ANCS Crew 13 USS Brooklyn and
George V Sadworth
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1939-09-18 |
Notes: Cachet Makers: Gordon A Shaw and
Lloyd A Nace.
Cachet is thermographed.
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1939-09-18 |
Notes: Cachet Maker: Louis C & Mae Weigand
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1940-01-06 |
Category |
Note:
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1940-05-24 |
Category |
Advertising cover
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1940-09-18 |
1st Anniversary Commissioning |
Muridge Cachet
Back is clean
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1940-11-10 |
Category |
Army Navy YMCA stationary
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1941-06-06 |
Category |
Sadworth / Garrett Cachet
Back black pen return address to USS Helena Pearl Harbor Hawaii
No Image |
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1941-07-22 |
Category |
Business reply envelope
Back is clean
No Image |
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1941-08-18 |
Category |
Notes:
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1941-08-27 |
Category |
Hobby Shop Cachet
Back is clean
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1942-05-01 |
Category |
Censored wartime (WWII) use
Back is clean
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1943-04-30 |
Category |
Censored wartime (WWII) use
Back MACDILL FIELD FLA machine 1943-05-24...Pencil notation "CL-50"
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