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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			1921-04-11 Locy Type 3b (AC-XOX) "FORTRESS / MONROE VA."
			Category

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			1927-04-12 Locy Type 9v (C)
			Official Business

Back red Type 9v (x2) marks and purple WASHINGTON D.C. REG. SEC. 1927-04-17...Black rubberstamp "179364" and 3 wax seals

 

No Image			1927-08-17 Locy Type 9v
			Category

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			1931-05-30 Locy Type 6
			Memorial Day

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby

 

No Image			1932-09-09 Locy Type 6 (AT SEA)
			Category

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			1933-01-06 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT)
			Official Business

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			1933-03-08 Locy Type 6
			Official Business

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No Image			1933-05-25 Locy Type 6
			Category

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No Image			1933-10-27 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "NAVY / DAY"
			Navy Day 1933

Back SAN PEDRO CALIF NAVAL STA duplex 1933-10-30

 

N/A		N/A	1934-05-31 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "PRESIDENTIAL / REVIEW, NYC"
			Presidential Review

Add-on cachet by Stewart Milstein

 

No Image			1934-06-13 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "NEW YORK / N.Y."
			Category

Postcard use

 

No Image			1935-01-08 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "SAN PEDRO CA / REBEL SHIP"
			Category

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			1935-07-03 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "HONOLULU T.H. / ROTC CRUISE"
			Category

Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers

 

			1935-07-04 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "HONOLULU T.H. / ROTC CRUISE"
			Independence Day

Cachet Makers: Kalakaua Stamp Club and Honolulu Advertiser Stamp Collectors Corner.
Front of the cover has an Aiglon Society cachet by Philip Akeo.

 

		No Image	1935-07-04 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "HONOLULU T.H. / ROTC CRUISE"
			Independence Day

Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers

 

			1935-07-26 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "BREMERTON WN / REBEL SHIP"
			Post Office Day

Cachet Maker: Leslie S Merrell

 

No Image			1935-10-27 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "NAVY DAY / SAN PEDRO,CAL"
			Navy Day 1935

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			1936-11-11 Locy Type 7
			Category

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			1939-03-02 Locy Type 7
			East Coast Cruise

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			1939-11-23 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) THANKS / GIVING DAY
			Thanksgiving Day

Cachet Maker: Donald R Graf.

 

			1941-04-07 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "HAWAIIAN / AREA"
			Category

Note: Cover included a note from the Tennessee's Navy Mail Clerk stating: "Damage due to this cover being immersed in sea water as the result of an airplane crash at sea."

 

			1941-05-07 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT)
			Patriotic

Minkus Cachet addressed to Herman Lindner
Back pencil notation "T.H."...Blue printed Minkus copyright lower right

 

			1943-07-26 Locy Type 7z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1943-09-25 Locy Type 9vz 1943-09-30 Washington D.C. U.S. Fleet Post Office
			Official Business

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			1943-11-12 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Official Business

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			1944-10-07 Locy Type 7z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1945-09-13 Locy Type P (9efw "MOB" removed) 1945-09-19 Boston MA 1945-09-20 Boston MA 10166 Sta.
			Category

Registered use

 

			1945-10-04 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "TOKYO / JAPAN"
			Category

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N/A			1945-10-05 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "SINGAPORE / BR.MALAY"
			Port Visit

From the David Pallante collection. LATER NOTE- the postmark date is probably "Oct 25" during time period TENNESSEE was at Singapore. The "2" likely was poorly inked in the device.

 

N/A			1945-10-25 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "SINGAPORE / BR.MALAY"
			Port Visit

Cachet maker unknown (probably done on board ship)

 

N/A			1945-11-02 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "COLOMBO / CEYLON"
			Port Visit

 

			1945-11-04 Locy Type Fake USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-38
			Category

Postcard use
Ceylon

 

			1945-11-15 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "CAPETOWN / S.AFRICA"
			Port Visit

Cachet maker unknown (probably done on board ship)

 

			1945-12-06 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "PHILA. / PENNA"
			Official Business

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			1946-06-01 Locy Type 2(n)
			State Admission Day

Cachet Makers: Walter Czubay and Neil F Nielsen

 

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