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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.


        "Through the year 1937 cachetmakers Louis C. Weigand and Eugene C. Laird worked with Elmer LaVergne, mail clerk in the Brooklyn Receiving ship, to produce a set of 100 covers noting significant holidays, events and presidential birth anniversaries. All bore this cancel with "USS SEATTLE" on the top line, with varying dates and commemorative wording (six cancels have no date). The set was sold on commercial cacheted covers by Laird, 48 with star designs, 20 with historical designs and 32 for presidents. The postmark was also used on occasion on covers submitted by individual collectors." Catalog of United States Naval Postmarks - Volume II: Receiving Ships (Receiving Barracks, Stations, and Station Ships) Copyright 2012, David A. Kent, Editor.


        Although Weigand and Laird get the credit for the covers, it appears the postmark was created by John C. Von Losberg with the 1936 cover shown on this page from the USS MAHAN DD-364 with this postmark used with ship specific wording in the postmark. Greg Ciesielski, Curator NCM.




Thumbnail Link
To
Cachet Close-Up Image
Thumbnail Link To
Full Cover Front Image
Thumbnail Link
To
Postmark or Back Image
Postmark Date
Postmark Type
Killer Bar Text
Ship
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Category


 

N/A

N/A

1937-01-24
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

USS Maine Passing Morro Castle

Postmark celebrates "LAST VOYAGE"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-02-09
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

Florida

Postmark celebrates "Mardi Gras"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-02-12
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

Georgia

Postmark celebrates "Georgia Day"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-02-15
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

US Battleship Maine

Postmark celebrates "U.S.S. MAINE"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-02-15
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

US Battleship Maine

Postmark celebrates "MAINE WRECK"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-02-16
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

US Frigate Philadelphia

Postmark celebrates "A DARING ACT"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-03-08
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

USS Virginia

Postmark celebrates "IRON SHIPS"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-03-09
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

USS Monitor

Postmark celebrates "UNION SAVIOUR"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-06-28
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

British Repulse at Ft. Moultrie

Postmark celebrates "BRITISH DEFEAT"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-07-03
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

US Battleship Oregon

Postmark celebrates "U.S.S. OREGON"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-08-19
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

US Frigate Constitution

Postmark celebrates "OLD IRONSIDES"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-09-23
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

Bon Homme Richard

Postmark celebrates "DUC DE DURAS"


 

N/A

N/A

1937-11-24
Brooklyn Receiving Ship Fancy Cancel
US RECEIVING SHIP BROOKLYN NY
USCS Receiving Ships Catalog Postmark Illus. RS-B-1h

Zachary Taylor

Postmark celebrates our "12th President"



1936 Use of This Marking before USS Seattle's use in 1937


 

1936-09-18
"USS MAHAN-364"
First Day in / Commission

Commissioning of USS Mahan DD-364

This marking is on the back of the cover. Cachet by John C. Von Losberg. From the John Young collection.

 


 

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