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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	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text Ship --------- Category

 

N/A			c1925-04-03 Locy Type 3r (A)
			Category

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N/A			1926-03-28 USS BRECK DD-283 Locy Type SLPbs (48x7) 1926-03-30 Locy Type 3r (A) "GUANCANAYABO / BAY CUBA"
			Official Business

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N/A			1927-02-03 Locy Type 6
			Category

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			1927-05-14 Locy Type 9v Washington D.C. Reg. Sec.
			Official Business

Reduced at right

 

N/A			1928-02-05 Locy Type 8i USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-52b
			Category

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N/A			1928-07-23 Locy Type 8 USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-52
			Category

Back reverse image type 8 cancel...Pencil notation ship info

 

N/A			1929-02-08
			Category

The Destroyer Squadron postmark was kept aboard USS Whitney.

 

			1930-04-19 Locy Type 8 USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-52a
			Category

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N/A			1931-03-28 Locy Type 8i USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-52b
			Category

Scouting Fleet. Back reverse image of cancel

 

N/A			1931-07-17 Locy Type 6
			Category

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N/A			1932-03-30 Locy Type 5hk "SAN DIEGO / CALIF" Destroyer Squadron One Scouting Force
			Category

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			1934-10-20 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "GTMO B / CUBA"
			Official Business

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			1935-03-04 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT)
			Official Business

Return to USS Yarnall DD-143

 

			1936-01-28 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"
			Category

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			1936-02-29 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"
			Category

Cachet by S

 

N/A		N/A	1936-09-01 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "PORTSMOUTH / VIRGINIA" Locy Type SLKbs (87x9) USS Owl AM-2
			First Day of Commission - USS Acushnet AT-63

Cachet by the Naval Cachet & Cancel Club, sponsored by Tazewell G. Nicholson. From the Tom Kean collection.

N/A			1936-12-20 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

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N/A			1937-04-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII"
			Category

Double struck on front. Back black pen return address to ship at San Diego CA

 

			1938-08-26 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA" Locy Type 9efw (U.S.S. omitted)
			Category

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N/A			1938-10-29 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

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N/A			1939-09-25 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB)
			Category

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N/A			1941-01-30 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT)
			Category

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N/A			1941-02-04 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT)
			Category

Business Reply use

N/A			1941-07-23 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT)
			Category

Back blue pen return address to ship at Pearl Harbor T.H....Pencil notation "2"

N/A			1941-07-24 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT)
			Category

Business Reply use

N/A			1941-09-18 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT)
			Category

Business Reply use

N/A			1941-10-06 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT)
			Category

Business Reply use

N/A			1941-10-22 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT)
			Category

Business Reply use

			1942-02-21 Locy Type FAKE USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-3a eagle
			Category

Cachet by the Sibley's Department Store (Hobby Shop)

			1942-04-16 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored, WWII use

N/A			1942-06-14 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored, WWII use...Black pen V.C. Shank return address..."U.S.S. Whitney". Back black pen notation "435"...Pencil notation "Whitney"

			1943-03-19 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored, WWII use

			1943-06-15 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored, WWII use

			1944-07-26 Locy Type 2z
			Category

Censored, WWII use

 

			1946-07-22 Locy Type 9efu
			Category

Cachet by Donald R. Graf

 

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