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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
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Cachet Category


 

No Image

1933-02-25
Newport News VA Machine

Ship Launching

Note:


 

No Image

1933-02-25
Newport News VA Machine

Ship Launching

From the collection of Paul Banker. The insert describes the launch and other interesting information.


 

1934-06-04
Locy Type F
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4a
"FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION"

Ship Commissioning
Captain John Paul Jones

Note:


 

1934-06-04
Locy Type F
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4a
"FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION"

Ship Commissioning
Captain John Paul Jones

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 2 John Paul Jones, Whipple Y Chester and Deane C Bartley


 

1934-06-04
Locy Type F
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4
"FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION"

Category

Note:


 

No Image

1934-06-04
Locy Type F
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4
"FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION"

Category

Cachet Makers: Whipple Y. Chester, Deane C. Bartley and John Paul Jones Chapter 2 USCS.


 

N/A

N/A

1934-06-04
Locy Type F
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4a
"FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION"

Commissioning

Cacheted. From the Nancy DeLux collection.


 

No Image

1934-06-08
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"NAVAL BASE / NORFOLK VA"

Locy Type 9v (C)
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4c

Registered

From the Richard Morain collection.


 

1934-07-04
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"OUR FIRST / FOURTH"

Independence Day

Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 11 Rear Admiral Byrd


 

1934-07-22
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"N.N. YARD / PORTS, VA."

American History Commemorative

Cachet Makers: Robert L Manley and C Wright Richell


 

No Image

1934-08-23
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"CROSSING THE / EQUATOR"

Ship Shakedown Cruise

Cachet Makers: Marshall R Hall and C Wright Richell


 

1934-08-23
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"CROSSING THE / EQUATOR"

Ship Shakedown Cruise

Cachet Makers: Marshall R Hall and C Wright Richell


 

No Image

1934-08-30
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"RIO / DE JANEIRO"

Category

Note:


 

No Image

1934-09-12
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"BUENOS AIRES / ARGENTINA"

Category

Note:


 

No Image

1934-09-24
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"MONTEVIDEO / URUGUAY"

Category

Note:


 

No Image

No Image

1935-02-22
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"N.?. YARD / PORTS.VA"

Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong


 

No Image

1935-04-05
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"CRUISING / CARIBBEAN"

Category

Cachet Makers: Marshall R Hall and C Wright Richell


 

No Image

1935-05-09
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"MIDWAY IS. / PACIFIC"

Category

Back USPO Machine Evanston, Ill. 1935-06-03


 

1935-07-29
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"

Category

Cachet Maker: Clyde Welch


 

No Image

No Image

1935-09-20
Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
"SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"

Category

Note:


 

N/A

N/A

1937-05-18
Locy Type 3 (A-BTB)
"HONOLULU / HAWAII"

Pan American Airways

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby


 

1937-07-14
Locy Type 3 (A-BTB)
"SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"

Russian Flight

Note:


 

1937-10-04
Locy Type 3 (A-BTB)

Category

Postcard use


 

1937-09-16
Locy Type 3 (A-BTB)
"CALLAO / PERU"

Inter-American Technical Aviation Conference

Note:


 

1938-05-20
Locy Type 3 (A-BTB)
"SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"

National Air Mail Week

Cachet Maker: Lt J S Johnson USN
Cachet is on a separate piece of paper pasted to the envelope.


 

1938-08-19
Locy Type 3 (A-BTB)
"SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA."

Ship Commemorative - USS Constitution
Person Commemorative - Commodore Isaac Hull

Cachet Maker: Harry Ioor


 

1938-09-17
Locy Type 3 (A-BTB)
"SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA."

Category

Includes rubber stamp from Mail Office of HMS York.


 

No Image

1938-11-06

Thanksgiving Day

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.


 

No Image

1938?

Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed. Unable to determine primary date. Arbitrarily selected 1938.


 

1939-02-07
Locy Type 3 (A-BTB)
"GONAIVES / HAITI"

Category

Cachet Maker: Harry Ioor
Type 6ep(2) postmark for United States Fleet on back of cover. Cachet also refers to USS Ralph Talbot DD-390.


 

1939-06-02
Locy Type 9v
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4c
Locy Type 9x
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4h
Locy Type 9efw
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4e

Category

Note:


 

1940-05-16
Locy Type 3r (A-BBT)
"AT / SEA"

Category

Note:


 

1940-11-09
Locy Type 6ep(3)

Category

Note:


 

No Image

No Image

1941-02-25
Locy Type 6ep(3)

Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong


 

1941-06-11
Locy Type 3 (A-TTT)
"NORFOLK / VIRGINIA"

Category

Bund / Stoner Cachet


 

N/A

1941-06-17
Locy Type Fz
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4k

Sailors Mail to Phil Schreiber

From the Tom Kean collection.


 

No Image

1941-08-25
Locy Type Fz
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4k

Category

Postcard use


 

No Image

1941-08-26
Locy Type 7drz

Category

Postcard use


 

1941-10-02
Locy Type Fz
USCS Catalog Illustration R-4k

Category

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge


 

No Image

c1941
Locy Type PPO
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4j

Category

Note:


 

1942-09-05
Locy Type 7rz

Official Business

Note:


 

1943-05-15
Locy Type 9vz

1943-05-23
Washington D.C. Registered

1943-05-24
Washington D.C. Navy Dept. Mail Division

Official Business

Posted from another ship or station...Ship did not carry this device


 

1943-09-12
Locy Type 7rz

Official Business

Note:


 

1944-09-30
Locy Type 7rz

Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use


 

1945-10-27
Locy Type 7r

Navy Day 1945

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge, sponsored by the John Paul Jones Chapter No. 2, USCS


 

1946-10-17
Locy Type LDPS 2(n)

Mickey Mouse
Last Day Postal Service

Hand painted cachet

 


 

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