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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	1933-02-25
			Ship Launching

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No Image			1933-02-25
			Ship Launching

Note: From the collection of Paul Banker.
The insert describes the launch and other interesting information.

 

			1934-06-04 Locy Type F  (USCS Illustration R-4a) FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION
			Ship Commissioning Captain John Paul Jones

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			1934-06-04 Locy Type F  (USCS Illustration R-4a) FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION
			Ship Commissioning Captain John Paul Jones

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 2 John Paul Jones, Whipple Y Chester and Deane C Bartley

 

			1934-06-04 Locy Type F   (USCS Illustration R-4) FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION
			Category

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No Image			1934-06-04 Locy Type F   (USCS Illustration R-4a) FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION
			Category

Note: Cachet Makers: Whipple Y. Chester, Deane C. Bartley and John Paul Jones Chapter 2 USCS.

 

			1934-07-04 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) OUR FIRST / FOURTH
			Independence Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 11 Rear Admiral Byrd

 

			1934-07-22 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) N.N. YARD / PORTS, VA.
			American History Commemorative

Notes: Cachet Makers: Robert L Manley and C Wright Richell

 

		No Image	1934-08-23 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) CROSSING THE / EQUATOR
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

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

 

			1934-08-23 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) CROSSING THE / EQUATOR
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

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

 

No Image			1934-08-30 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "RIO / DE JANEIRO"
			Category

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No Image			1934-09-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "BUENOS AIRES / ARGENTINA"
			Category

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No Image			1934-09-24 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "MONTEVIDEO / URUGUAY"
			Category

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		No Image	1935-04-05 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) CRUISING / CARIBBEAN
			Category

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

 

No Image			1935-05-09 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "MIDWAY IS. / PACIFIC"
			Category

Back USPO Machine Evanston, Ill. 1935-06-03

 

			1935-07-29 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Clyde Welch

 

No Image		No Image	1935-09-20 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA
			Category

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			1937-07-14 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Russian Flight

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			1937-10-04 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB)
			Category

Postcard use

 

			1937-09-16 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "CALLAO / PERU"
			Inter-American Technical Aviation Conference

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			1938-05-20 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA
			National Air Mail Week

Notes: Cachet Maker: Lt J S Johnson USN
Cachet is on a separate piece of paper pasted to the envelope.

 

			1938-08-19 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA.
			Ship Commemorative - USS Constitution Person Commemorative - Commodore Isaac Hull

Note: Cachet Maker: Harry Ioor

 

			1938-09-17 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA.
			Category

Note: Includes rubber stamp from Mail Office of HMS York.

 

		No Image	1938-11-06
			Thanksgiving Day

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

 

		No Image	1938?
			Category

Note: Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed. Unable to determine primary date. Arbitrarily selected 1938.

 

			1939-02-07 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) GONAIVES / HAITI
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Harry Ioor
Type 6ep(2) postmark for United States Fleet on back of cover. Cachet also refers to USS Ralph Talbot DD-390.

 

			1939-06-02 Locy Type 9v (C) Locy Type 9x Locy Type 9efw
			Category

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			1940-11-09 Locy Type 6ep(3)
			Category

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			1941-06-11 Locy Type 3 (A-TTT) "NORFOLK / VIRGINIA"
			Category

Bund / Stoner Cachet

 

			1941-10-02 Locy Type Fz USCS Catalog Illustration R-4k
			Category

Muridge Cachet

 

			1946-10-17 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Mickey Mouse Last Day Postal Service

Hand painted cachet

 

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