USS DES MOINES CL-17 Covers Page 1

 
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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			1909-07-01 USPO Duplex Cancel Oregon
			Sailors mail

U.S.S. "Des Moines" at anchor. Tompkinsville, N. Y.

 

N/A			1924-03-11 USPO CDS Wyoming
			Sailors mail

U.S.S. DES MOINES

 

			1909-08-01 Locy Type 1
			Sailors mail

Postcard use. "BOSTON, Mass. Scene in Public Garden."

 

			1910-12-11 Locy Type 1
			Sailors mail

Postcard use. "Reunion du Corps Diplomatique / spres la Conference e'Algeciras"

 

			1910-12-12 Locy Type 1
			Sailors mail

Postcard use. "GREETINGS FROM / GIBRALTAR"

 

			1911-03-26 Locy Type 1
			Sailors mail

Picture postcard of the high school, Portsmouth, VA

 

No Image			1911-10-15 Locy Type 9v
			Collectors request

Cut piece pasted on cover

 

N/A		N/A	1914-06-21 Locy Type 3b (XOX) "PUERTO / MEXICO"
			Facing Slip

Courtesy of Stewart Milstein.

 

N/A			1915-03-17 Locy Type 3b (XOX) "PROGRESO / MEXICO"
			Collectors request

Cut piece pasted on cover

 

			1915-09-10 Locy Type 3 " / CRETE"
			Sailors mail

Postcard use. "Souviner de Crete"

 

			1915-10-14 Locy Type 3b (XOX) "BEIRUT / SYRIA"
			Sailors mail

Postcard use. "Beyrouth. / Darb el Kabire. "

 

			1915-11-25 Locy Type 3b (XOX) "ALEXANDRIA / EGYPT"
			Sailors mail

Postcard use. "Mosque of Omar."

 

			1916-02-03 Locy Type 3b (XOX) "NAPLES / ITALY"
			Sailors mail

Postcard use. "Napoli (Mt. Vesuvius)"

 

			1917-01-31 Locy Type 3b (XOX) "ALEXANDRIA / EGYPT"
			Sailors mail

Postcard use. "ALEXANDRIE - Barques sur Canal Mahmondich"

 

			1919-05-04 Locy Type 3b (XOX) "HARWICH / ENGLAND"
			Sailors mail

Postcard use. Picture postcard from Plymouth England

 

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