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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 --------- Cachet Category

No Image			1916-05-25 Locy Type 3 (A)
			Category

Back is clean

			1921-06-24 Locy Type 3 (AC) "GALVESTON / TEXAS"
			Category

Post Card use showing FONTAINEBLEAU PALACE
Blue rubberstamp Chester Knowlson return

No Image			1926-11-10 Locy Type 9 (C)
			Category

Reduced Navy Penalty use face

No Image			1927-12-05 Locy Type 3s (B)
			Category

Back black pen return to ship on Asiatic Station...Pencil notation "SACRAMENTO 13"

			1928-01-04 Locy Type 3s (B)
			Category

Official Business

No Image			1934-04-06 Locy Type 5bhks (XOX) ASIATIC / STATION
			Category

Notes:

			1934-08-02 Locy Type 5bhks (XOX) ASIATIC / STATION
			Category

Dumonte Cachet

No Image			1934-09-22 Locy Type 5ahks "ASIATIC / STATION"
			Category

Note:

			1934-10-27 Locy Type 5ahks ASIATIC / STATION
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: C Stephen Anderson

			1934-11-14 Locy Type 5ahks "ASIATIC / STATION"
			Category

Black printed Cross Cachet
Back pencil notation "PG 19"...Green rubberstamp Cachet Sponsor M B Owens

No Image			1935-08-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) "SHANGHAI / CHINA"
			Category

Note:

No Image			1935-08-24 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) "SHANGHAI / CHINA"
			Category

Note:

			1936-07-04 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) SHANGHAI / CHINA
			Independence Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: C Wright Richell
Cachet is thermographed.

			1937-01-01 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) SHANGHAI / CHINA
			New Year's Day

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 22 Battleship Oregon and Louis R Diesing
Not sure what role, if any, John N. Lawrence had in creating the cachet.

			1937-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) SWATOW / CHINA
			Navy Day

Notes: Cachet Makers: Leslie E Paulson and C Wright Richell

			1937-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) SWATOW / CHINA
			Navy Day

Notes: Cachet Makers: ANCS Crew 2 Independence, C Wright Richell and Robert W Matthews
Not sure what role, if any, Fred D. Irwin had in creating this cachet.

			1938-05-05 Locy Type 9v
			Category

Unknown Cachet
Back is clean

			1938-08-13 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) SWATOW / CHINA
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: John Coulthard and Deane C Bartley

			1938-11-11 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT)
			Armistice Day

Notes: Cachet Makers: Walter Czubay and Leonard Rogers

No Image			1939-02-06 Locy Type F "COLUMBO / CELON" USCS Catalog Illustration S-11
			Homeward Bound from the Orient

Back is clean

			1939-02-06 Locy Type F "COLUMBO / CELON" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-11
			Homeward Bound from the Orient

Add-on Cachet by Roger A. Wentworth

N/A		N/A	1939-03-23 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "PORT-SAID / EGYPT"
			Homeward Bound from the Orient

Official Business. From the Steve Shay collection.

			1939-05-27 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "NEW-YORK / N.Y."
			Homeward Bound from the Orient

Navy Penalty Use

N/A		N/A	1939-05-27 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "NEW-YORK / N.Y."
			Homeward Bound from the Orient

Cacheted

N/A			1939-07-01 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "SALVAGE / AREA"
			Station Ship

Salvage Area refers to USS Sacramento's use as the Station Ship for the USS Squalus SS-192 salvage operation.

N/A		N/A	1939-08-21 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "SALVAGE / AREA"
			Station Ship

Official Business. Salvage Area refers to USS Sacramento's use as the Station Ship for the USS Squalus SS-192 salvage operation.

			1939-10-12 Locy Type LDC 3 (A-BTT) "LAST DAY / MAIL"
			Last Day in Commission

Cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick

N/A		N/A	1939-10-12 Locy Type LDC 3 (A-BTT) "LAST DAY / MAIL"
			Last Day in Commission

Cachet by Eugene L. Mueller. From the Steve Shay collection.

N/A		N/A	1939-10-12 Locy Type LDC 3 (A-BTT) "LAST DAY / MAIL"
			Last Day in Commission

Add-on cachet by Roger A. Wentworth.

			1941-02-27 Locy Type FDPS 3 "FIRST DAY / CANCELATION"
			First Day Postal Service

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge

No Image			1941-02-27 Locy Type FDPS 3 "FIRST DAY / CANCELATION"
			First Day Postal Service

Front red ink notation "PG19"
Back red rubberstamp "WALTER CZUBAY"

			1941-02-27 Locy Type FDPS 9v
			Ship Recommissioning Ship First Day Of Postal Service

Notes: Cachet Maker: Gordon A Shaw

			1941-02-27 Locy Type FDPS 9v
			Ship Recommissioning Ship First Day Of Postal Service

Notes: Cachet Maker: Gordon A Shaw
Back black rubberstamp "SUNK" crossed out with pencil

			1941-02-27 Locy Type FDPS 3 (A-BBT) Killer: FIRST DAY / CANCELLATION Locy Type FDPS 9v Locy Type FDPS 9x Locy Type FDPS 9efw
			Category

Notes:

			1941-03-29 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Louis C & Mae Weigand

			1941-05-26 Locy Type 3z (TTT)
			Category

Back is clean

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