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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

 

No Image			1917-06-22 Locy Type F USCS Catalog Illustration O-7a
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Note: Censored wartime (WWI) use
Back is clean

 

No Image			1917-09-08 Locy Type 3 (AC)
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Note: Censored wartime (WWI) use
Back is clean

 

			1918-06-15 Locy Type 1z
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Note: Censored wartime (WWI) use

 

			1922-05-20 Locy Type 3s (AC) SAN PEDRO / CALIF
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			1925-11-16 Locy Type 9 (with 4 bars)
			Category

Notes: The postmark year is unreadable. 1925 is a guess.

 

No Image			1927-07-04 Locy Type 3 (AC)
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Back return to ship at San Francisco

 

No Image			1928-05-26 Locy Type 6
			Category

Note: Cover shows multiple cancels...PHILADELPHIA PA. MIDDLE CITY STATION machine 1928-05-27
Back pencil notation "645, U522 FD's 645 unofficial 21.25 Quality Investors"...U.S. NAVAL HOSPITAL LEAGUE ISLAND, PA. CDS 1928-05-26
Cover is addressed to Lt. COmdr F.E. Locy (MC)U.S.N. the creator of the Naval Postmark classification system

 

No Image			1928-05-26 Locy Type 6
			Category

Note: Incoming First Day Cover (Sc. 645) to Dr. Francis Locy
Back U.S. NAVAL HOSPITAL LEAGUE ISLAND, PA. CDS 1928-05-26
Bruce D. Liddell collection

 

No Image			1928-12-12 Locy Type 5s (C)
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Back December 13 1928 Philadelphia Naval Yard Sta CDS and Duplex cancels
December 16 1928 Oakland, Calif Machine
1928 Christmas Seal and Chester Knowlson owners mark

 

No Image			1929-05-13 Locy Type 5s (C)
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Front violet rubberstamp "Via Air Mail"
Back is clean

 

			1929-09-05 Locy Type 5s (C)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Louis C Bakula.
Cachet is an add-on.

 

			1930-04-07 Locy Type 3s (A)
			Category

Note: Pencil notation at lower left "649 140 +"...Addressed to Walter Crosby...Back is clean

 

			1931-01-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA" Locy Type 9v Locy Type 9x Locy Type 9w
			Category

Note:Multiple cancels with U.S.S. OKLAHOMA Cinderella stamp
Back is clean

 

No Image			1931-07-03 Locy Type 3s (A) "HILO T.H. / "
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Back black pen signatures...PEPEEKEO HAWAII duplex 1931-07-04

 

			1931-08-24 Locy Type 3s (A) FLEET WEEK / SAN FRANCISCO
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Notes: Cachet Maker: Robert Beazell

 

No Image			1931-12-15 Locy Type 3s (A) " / CALIFORNIA"
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No Image			1932-02-13 Locy Type 3s (A) "LAHAINA / ROADS T.H."
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			1932-04-26 Locy Type 3s (A)
			President George Washington

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			1934-07-07 Locy Type 3s (A) "AT HONOLULU / ROTC CRUISE"
			Category

Postcard use
"View from Manoa Valley, Near Honolulu"

 

			1934-08-09 Locy Type 3s (A) "ENROUTE / BALBOA C. Z."
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			1934-12-04 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) USCS Catalog Illustration O-7b
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		No Image	1935-01-08 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB)  (USCS Illustration O-7b)
			Christmas Day

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N/A		N/A	1935-03-01 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB)  (USCS Illustration O-7b)
			Category

Add-on cachet by Jack Follows

 

			1935-04-25 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA" USCS Catalog Illustration O-7b
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Official Business

 

			1935-05-28 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB)  (USCS Illustration O-7c) PEARL / HARBOR T.H.
			Hawaii

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers and United Chinese News Ltd

 

			1935-05-29 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB)  (USCS Illustration O-7c) PEARL / HARBOR T.H.
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: Marshall R Hall and C Wright Richell

 

			1935-08-03 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) (USCS Illustration O-7c) FLEET WEEK / SEATTLE, WN
			Category

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

 

			1935-08-03 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) (USCS Illustration O-7c) FLEET WEEK / SEATTLE, WN
			Category

USCS Chapter 2 Cachet

 

			1936-02-01 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) (USCS Illustration O-7c)
			First Flight from Honolulu to Guam

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			1936-06-20 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) PORTSMOUTH / ENGLAND
			Midshipmen's Cruise 1936

Notes: Cachet Maker: Lloyd A Nace
Could not find a name for USCS 681 / ANCS 111 / Aiglon Mc-296 and it is unclear what role, if any, this person had in creating the cachet.

 

			1936-07-03 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) GOTEBORG / SWEDEN
			Midshipmen's Cruise 1936

Notes: Artist name is in the cachet (under the "19" of "1936"). It looks like "H E GUNNETT" but I can find no information on such a person. Also unknown what role, if any, Loring Stannard and Charles Beucher had in creating the cachet.

 

		No Image	1936-07-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) AIDS REFUGEES / BILBAO SPAIN
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		No Image	1936-07-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) AIDS REFUGEES / BILBAO, SPAIN
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		No Image	1936-07-26 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) BAYONNE / FRANCE
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		No Image	1936-07-26 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) BAYONNE / FRANCE
			Midshipmen's Cruise 1936

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

 

			1936-08-20 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) PALMA / SPAIN
			Category

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