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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

			1937-03-23 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "WASHINGTON / DC"
			Category

Note:

			1937-05-27 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "PORTSMOUTH / VA."
			Ship Launching - USS HELM DD-388 Ship Launching - USS BLUE DD-387

Note:

			1937-05-27 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) PORTSMOUTH / VA.
			Ship Launching - USS Helm DD-388 Ship Launching - USS Blue DD-387

Note: Naval Cachet And Cancel Club and C Wright Richell

			1937-08-20 Locy Type 3b (A-XTT) "ST. THOMAS, / V. I."
			Naval Reserve Cruise

USCS Chapter 4 Cachet

N/A		N/A	1938-06-06 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "WASHINGTON / DC" USS Decatur DD-341
			2nd Class Midshipman Cruise

Cruise included USS Leary DD-158, USS Decatur DD-341, USS Badger DD-126, USS J. Fred Talbott DD-156, USS Fairfax DD-93
and USS Herbert DD-160.

N/A		N/A	1938-07-17 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "NEW LONDON / CONN" USS Fairfax DD-93
			2nd Class Midshipman Cruise

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson. Cruise included USS Leary DD-158, USS Decatur DD-341, USS Badger DD-126, USS J. Fred Talbott DD-156, USS Fairfax DD-93
and USS Herbert DD-160.

N/A		N/A	1938-07-24 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) "COASTAL / CRUISE" USS Herbert DD-160
			2nd Class Midshipman Cruise

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson. Cruise included USS Leary DD-158, USS Decatur DD-341, USS Badger DD-126, USS J. Fred Talbott DD-156, USS Fairfax DD-93
and USS Herbert DD-160.

			1939-06-14 Locy Type 3r (A-BTB) PORTSMOUTH / VA
			Flag Day

Note: Cachet Maker: John Joseph Bodisch.

			1939-07-04 Locy Type 3r (A-BTB) "NEW BEDFORD / MASS"
			Independence Day 1939

John Joseph Bodisch Cachet
Back black return to Bodisch/Ship at New York

		No Image	1939-08-01 USPO Duplex Rockport, Maine
			Official Business

Note:

			1939-10-27 Locy Type 3r (A-BTB) "NAVY DAY / AT SEA" Locy Type F USCS Catalog Illustration L-7
			Navy Day 1939

Note:

			1943-09-08 Locy Type 3z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

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