USS SHAW DD-373 Covers Page 1

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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

 

			1935-10-28 Locy Type 7di NAVY / YARD / STATION Navy Yard Philadelphia Pennsylvania
			Ship Keel Laying - USS Wichita CA-45 Ship Launching - USS Cassin DD-372 Ship Launching - USS Shaw DD-373

Notes: Cachet Maker: Philadelphia Navy Yard Development Association.

 

			1936-09-18 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) WELCOME / U.S.S. SHAW USS Antares AKS-3
			Ship Commissioning

Notes: Cachet Maker: Dr S E Hutnick

 

No Image			1936-10-26 Locy Type FDPS 3r (A-BBT) FIRST DAY / MAIL
			Category

Note: Tuchinsky First Day Cachet...Back pencil notation "DD373"...Blue rubberstamp Meyer Tuchinsky return address

 

			1936-10-26 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) FIRST DAY / MAIL
			Ship First Day Of Postal Service

Notes: Cachet Maker: Dr S E Hutnick

 

No Image		No Image	1937-01-16 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) NAVY YARD / PHILA PA
			Category

Note: Cachet artist is Meyer Tuchinsky and sponsored by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

			1937-04-30 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) HARWICH / ENGLAND
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

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			1937-05-09 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) DIEPPE / FRANCE
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

Notes: Cachet Maker: Meyer Tuchinsky

 

No Image			1937-05-25 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "NAPLES / ITALY"
			Category

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No Image			1941-04-24 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT)
			Category

Note: Back black rubberstamp Paul J. Gross return address

 

No Image			1941-04-24 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT)
			Category

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			1941-08-19 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: J Robert Bund and Robert Stoner
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1942-04-18 Locy Type Fz USCS Catalog Illustration S-38
			Category

Note: Navy Penalty Envelope
Used at Mare Island while under repair for damage sustainted at Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941
Back is clean

 

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