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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

			1914-02-19 Locy Type 2
			Sailor's Mail

Postcard use

			1914-04-22 Locy Type 2
			Sailor's Mail

Japanese postcard mailed from Mexico (stated by sender) showing Kiyomizo Temple Kyoto Japan

			1914-06-01 Locy Type 2
			Sailor's Mail

Postcard use
VILLAFRANK, FRANCE postcard mailed from Vera Cruz, Mexico (stated by sender)

No Image			1918-11-12 Locy Type 2r (C)
			Sailor's Mail

Back is clean

No Image			1920-10-26 Locy Type 3r (AC)
			Sailor's Mail

Back multiple pencil notations....Black ink line outs

			1921-02-19 Locy Type 3r (AC)
			Category

Postcard use
"Lima: "El Hipodromo," (Peru.)"

No Image			1922-09-23 Locy Type 3rs (BC) " / PORTUGAL"
			Sailor's Mail

Back is clean

No Image			1928-05-28 Locy Type 9v USCS Catalog Illustration U-5h
			Register Receipt

Registers receipt showing proper use of device...BOSTON Navy Yard Station type 9v

 

No Image			1928-06-21 Locy Type 8
			Category

Notes:

No Image			1928-12-23 Locy Type 8
			Category

Note:

No Image			1929-01-06 Locy Type 3s "Hampton Roads / Va." USCS catalog Illustration U-5c Locy Type 8
			Category

Face only pasted to envelope...Front pencil notations "Pres. Hoover"..."BB31"
Back black rubberstamp "SUNK"...Pencil notation "25"

			1930-02-18 Locy Type 8
			Category

Navy Penalty use
Back is clean

 

No Image			1930-07-11 Locy Type 8
			Category

Notes:

			1930-09-25 Locy Type 9x USCS Catalog Illustration U-5n Locy Type 3s USCS Catalog Illustration U-5c
			Category

Navy Penalty use
Back is clean

 

			1931-02-09 Locy Type 3s  (USCS Illustration U-5c) Locy Type 9v  (USCS Illustration U-5h) Locy Type 9x Locy Type 9w
			Category

Notes:

			1931-07-09 Locy Type 5hks "PORTSMOUTH / VA."
			Category

Pasted on hand colored cachet

 

No Image			1932-05-30 Locy Type 5hks MEMORIAL DAY / PORTS. VA.
			Category

Notes:

 

			1932-07-04 Locy Type 5hks INDEPEND- / ENCE DAY
			Independence Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: F G Klinger

 

			1935-02-22 Locy Type 5hks "WASHINGTON / BIRTHDAY"
			Washington's Birthday

Freshwater Cachet
Back black rubberstamp raymond R. Freshwater return

 

			1935-04-03 Locy Type 3s  (USCS Illustration U-5d) LONG BEACH / CALIFORNIA
			Pony Express

Notes:

 

			1936-05-30 Locy Type 3s "MEMORIAL / DAY" USCS Catalog Illustration U-5d
			Memorial Day 1936

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

 

			1936-08-31 Locy Type 3s  (USCS Illustration U-5d) SILVER / ANNIVERSARY
			Ship Birthday

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 40 M T Woolsey and L N Freeman
Freeman is the cachet artist. His (her?) name is just under the stern of the ship.

 

			1937-08-31 Locy Type 3s  (USCS Illustration U-5d) SAN PEDRO / CALIF
			Ship Birthday

Notes: Cachet Maker: Frederick Horton

 

			1937-10-27 Locy Type 5hks NAVY / DAY
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Ted Harrington

 

			1938-04-18 Locy Type 7d
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers and Chester E Frowe

			1940-10-27 Locy Type 7d
			Navy Day 1940

Note:

			1941-10-25 Locy Type 7d
			Category

Hendricks Cachet
Back signed Jagyi with ghost images of strike and cachet...Red rubberstamp "REPLACING DAMAGED COVER"

 

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