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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

No Image			1924-11-18 Locy Type SLKl
			Category

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			1929-10-10 Locy Type 6g
			Official Business

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			1930-05-16 Locy Type 6g no number in circle
			Category

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No Image			1932-03-27 Locy Type 6g no number in circle
			Category

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No Image			1932-05-01 Locy Type 5s "BOSTON / MASS" Locy Type SLKl (29x3)
			Category

Cachet by George V. Sadworth

No Image			1932-11-24 Locy Type 6g (no number in circle)
			Thanksgiving Day

Add-on cachet by - Bruce D. Liddell. Postmark year is inverted.

No Image			1933-05-30 Locy Type 6g (no number in circle)
			Category

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No Image		No Image	1933-09-02 Locy Type 5s
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

No Image			1933-12-25 Locy Type 5s "MERRY / XMAS"
			Christmas Day 1933

Applied NRA foil seal

No Image			1934-01-01 Locy Type 5s "BREMERTON / WASH 1934"
			New Years Day 1934

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No Image			1934-06-14 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "NEW YORK / NAVY YARD"
			Category

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No Image		No Image	1934-10-27 Locy Type 5s "NAVY DAY"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

No Image		No Image	1935-04-08 Locy Type 5s "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

No Image		No Image	1935-04-08 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

N/A		N/A	1935-09-08 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) "OUR 11TH / BIRTHDAY"
			11th Anniversary

Cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by Raymond A. Aiken

N/A		N/A	1935-09-08 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) "OUR 11TH / BIRTHDAY"
			11th Anniversary

Cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by Raymond A. Aiken

			1937-11-29 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "TSINGTAO / CHINA"
			Sailor's Letter Free Frank

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N/A		N/A	1938-02-19 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "MANILA P I / "
			Sailor's Letter Free Frank

From the Gary B. Weiss collection.

N/A		N/A	1938-03-26 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "JOLO ISLAND / .P. I"
			Sailor's Letter Free Frank

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			1938-06-10 "MAR. DTCH. AMER. EMBASSY" Peiping, China
			Port Visit

Cachet by G. E. Judkins

N/A		N/A	1938-08-18 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "YOKOHAMA / JAPAN"
			Port Visit

Cachet by G. E. Judkins. From the Tom Kean collection.

			1938-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) "CAVITE P.I. / NAVY DAY"
			Navy Day

Cachet by Florene Edmiston

No Image			1938-11-16 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) "CAVITE P.I."
			Category

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N/A			1941 Imperial Chinese Post, Tsingtao 1941-04-23 Imperial Chinese Post, Shanghai 1941-05-03 Foreign Mail Section 1941-05-15 Locy Type 9v 1941
			Category

British censored WWII use. Green rubberstamp boxed "51" front and back

			1941-05-26 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "U S / NAVY"
			Category

Cachet by J. Robert Bund / Robert Stoner

			1942-11-11
			Category

Cachet by Gordon A. Shaw, sponsored by Arthur A. Christensen

			1943-06-15 Locy Type 3z
			Official Business

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			1944-03-24 Locy Type 2z*
			Sailors mail

Censored WWII use

			1944-07-31 Locy Type Fvz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z1a New York NY Navy 157 Br. 1944-08-02 New York NY 10729 Br.
			Official Business

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			1945-07-21 Locy Type 2z*
			Sailors mail

Censored WWII use

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