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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			1919-05-16 Locy Type 3z (Special)
			Sailor mail

"At one time this marking was credited to SUSQUEHANNA, but it has since been seen on covers from several ships and is now known to have been used at a shore station." USCS Postmark Catalog, 5th Edition, 1997.
From the Jim Myerson collection.

			1920-05-17 Locy Type 3 (AC) "GUANTANAMO / CUBA"
			Category

Postcard use
"Cuartel de Homberos, Cardenas, Cuba / Fire Department"

N/A		N/A	1923-01-17 Locy Type 3 (AC) "MANZANILLA / CUBA"
			Sailor mail

Postcard from Santiago Cuba.

N/A			1925-11-07 Locy Type 9w (A)
			Registered, Navy Savings Bank mail

From the Jim Myerson collection.

N/A			1926-06-09 Locy Type 9v (A)
			Registered, Navy Savings Bank mail

From the Jim Myerson collection.

			1927-07-11 Locy Type 9v Balboa C.Z. Registered Cristobal C.Z. Registered 1927-07-19 Philadelphia PA Registered 1927-07-20 Unreadable mark
			Category

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No Image			1927-10-08 Locy Type 3b (A-OOX)
			Category

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No Image			1927-10-31 Locy Type 9v
			Official Business

Cut-piece

 

No Image			1928-05-10 Locy Type 6
			Category

Note: Cover is addressed to Dr. Locy. Postmark on the back of the cover is from the U.S. Naval Hospital at League Island, Pennsylvania.

 

No Image			1931-05-09 Locy Type 6
			Category

Note:

			1932-02-22 Locy Type 5hks "BALBOA / CANAL ZONE" Locy Type 6
			Washington's Birthday

Note: Add-on cachet by - Bruce D. Liddell
Type 6 postmark on reverse is dated 02/22/1931 (in error)

No Image			1932-02-22 Locy Type 5hks "BALBOA / CANAL ZONE"
			Washington's Birthday

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			1932-02-22 Locy Type 5hks "BALBOA / CANAL ZONE"
			Washington's Birthday

Add on cachet by Michael Hebert (Mh Cachets)

N/A		N/A	1932-05-04 Locy Type 5hks "SHANGHAI / CHINA"
			First Day as Asiatic Fleet Flagship.

Cacheted

No Image			1933-04-29 Locy Type LDC 5hsu "CAVITE P.I. / LAST DAY"
			Decommissioning at the Olongapo Shipyard, P.I.

Cachet Maker: H. E. Rhodes

			1933-07-04 Locy Type 6
			Category

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