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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

			1924-11-16 Locy Type 3 (AC) "GUANTANAMO / BAY CUBA"
			Category

Postcard use
"Calle Pedro A. Perez, Guantanamo, Cuba / P.A. Perez Street."

No Image			1926-11-10 Locy Type 9 (C) 1926-11-12 USPO Jack & Key West marking 1926-11-15 USPO (illegible)
			Category

Note:

No Image			1927-06-25 Locy Type 3r "HASTINGS / ENGLAND"
			Category

Postcard use
Back is clean

No Image			1927-10-15 Locy Type 3r "GIBARALTER / SPAIN"
			Category

Front pencil notation "Gibraltar isn't spelled with an "E" and isn't in Spain, and it hasnt two "As"
Back black pen return to ship at N.Y....Pencil notations "24"..."DETROIT / 38a"

 

			1928-11-01 Locy Type 3s "NAVY YARD / BOSTON" USCS Catalog Illustration D-20
			Category

Notes:

No Image			1928-11-23 Locy Type 3s "NAVY YARD / BOSTON" USCS Catalog Illustration D-20
			Category

Back black pen return address to ship...Pencil notation "DETROIT 68"

			1930-05-19 Locy Type 3s "NEW YORK / N. Y." USCS Catalog Illustration D-20a USPO Slogan New York NY, STA J-1 "ADRESS YOUR MAIL / TO / STREET AND NUMBER"
			Category

Official Business

No Image			1933-09-14 Locy Type 3s USCS Catalog Illustration D-20a
			Category

Front typed notation "CL-8"

			1934-02-22 Locy Type 3s USCS Catalog Illustration D-20a
			Washington's Birthday

USCS Chapter 2 Cachet

 

			1934-06-04 Locy Type 3s USCS Catalog Illustration D-20a
			Port Visit - Hoboken

Notes: Cachet Makers: Hoboken Businessman's Association and HUX.
Unable to make out the name of the cachet director on the back of the cover.

 

No Image			1934-06-04 Locy Type 3s USCS Catalog Illustration D-20a
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Notes:

No Image			1934-06-15 Locy Type 3s USCS Catalog Illustration D-20a
			Category

Hand painted cachet

			1934-09-26 Locy Type 3s USCS Catalog Illustration D-20a
			Category

Onzay Cachet by Emil Thurman and George Canaday
Back violet rubberstamp Emil Thurman / Aiglon Society return

			1934-09-26 Locy Type 3s USCS Catalog Illustration D-20a
			Category

Onzay Cachet by Emil Thurman and George Canaday
Back violet rubberstamp Emil Thurman / Aiglon Society return

No Image			1934-10-27 Unlisted Type 5hksy "U S S DETROIT / FLAGSHIP"
			Navy Day 1934

Destroyers Battle Force
Back is clean

 

			1935-05-29 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "HONOLULU / T. H."
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers and Nippu Jiji Company

 

No Image			1935-05-29 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "HONOLULU / T. H."
			Category

Notes:

 

			1935-07-07 Locy Type P [3 (C-BBT)]   (Destroyers Battle Force) "USS DETROIT / FLAGSHIP"
			Category

Notes:

			1935-10-28 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NAVY DAY / "
			Navy Day 1935

Unknown Cachet
Back is clean

 

			1936-08-06 Locy Type 6erp
			Port Visit - Portland OR

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 22 Battleship Oregon and Louis R Diesing

 

No Image			1937-01-23 Locy Type 3 DESTROYERS BATTLE FORCE "USS DETROIT / FLAGSHIP"
			Category

Notes:

 

			1937-04-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T H"
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: Walter G Crosby and J Enos.
Cachet is thermographed.

			1937-07-31 Locy Type 3b (BC-BXT) "MARE ISLAND / CALIFORNIA"
			Ship Birthday

Frederick Horton Cachet
Back VALLEJO CALIF / MARE ISLAND STATION machine cancel 1937-07-31...Purple rubberstamp Frederick Horton / Aiglon Society return

 

			1937-07-31 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "MARE ISLAND / CALIFORNIA"
			Ship Birthday

Notes: Cachet Maker: Ted Harrington

No Image			1939-08-28 Locy Type 9efw
			Category

Postcard use

			1939-12-24 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CAL"
			Category

Official Business

			1940-05-01 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T. H." Locy Type 9v USCS Catalog Illustration D-20c Locy Type 9efw Locy Type 9x
			Category

Addressed to USS HONOLULU
Back pencil notations "CL8 1922"...(Cancel Types)

 

			1941-02-20 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: J Robert Bund and Robert Stoner

 

			1941-03-09 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T H"
			Category

Notes:

No Image			1941-08-07 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
			Category

Business reply
Back typed return

No Image			1941-09-19 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Business reply
Back is clean

No Image			1941-09-20 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Back is clean

No Image			1941-11-10 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Back is clean

No Image			1941-11-12 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Back is clean

			1941-11-26 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Crosby Cachet
Back is clean

			1943-03-28 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1945-09-02 Locy Type F USCS Catalog Illustration D-20f
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Fancy cancel/cachet for Japanese surrender
Back is clean

		No Image	1945-12-14 Locy Type 6erp
			Category

Unknown Cachet
Back is clean

 

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