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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 --------- Cachet Category

N/A			1912-11-28 USPO Duplex Portsmouth NH
			Ship Postcard

U.S. BATTLESHIP UTAH

			1914-02-19 Locy Type 2
			Sailor's Mail

Postcard use

			1914-04-22 Locy Type 2
			Sailor's Mail

Japanese postcard mailed from Mexico (stated by sender) showing Kiyomizo Temple Kyoto Japan

			1914-06-01 Locy Type 2
			Sailor's Mail

Postcard use
VILLAFRANK, FRANCE postcard mailed from Vera Cruz, Mexico (stated by sender)

			1918-06-30 Locy Type 1z (C)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWI) use

No Image			1918-11-12 Locy Type 2r (C)
			Sailor's Mail

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No Image			1920-10-26 Locy Type 3r (AC)
			Sailor's Mail

Back multiple pencil notations....Black ink line outs

			1921-02-19 Locy Type 3r (AC)
			Category

Postcard use
"Lima: "El Hipodromo," (Peru.)"

No Image			1922-09-23 Locy Type 3rs (BC) " / PORTUGAL"
			Sailor's Mail

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No Image			1925-12-05 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5f 1925-12-07 Boston (Navy Yard Sta.) MA Registered 1925-12-08 Brooklyn NY Reg. Sec.
			Registered

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			1927-06-16 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5g 1927-06-17 Washington D.C. Reg. Sec.
			Registered Official Business

Reduced at right

No Image			1928-05-28 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5h
			Register Receipt

Registers receipt showing proper use of device...BOSTON Navy Yard Station type 9v

 

No Image			1928-06-21 Locy Type 8
			Category

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No Image			1928-12-23 Locy Type 8
			Category

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No Image			1929-01-06 Locy Type 3s "Hampton Roads / Va." USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5c Locy Type 8
			Category

Face only pasted to envelope...Front pencil notations "Pres. Hoover"..."BB31"
Back black rubberstamp "SUNK"...Pencil notation "25"

N/A			1929-03-15 Locy Type 8
			Official Business

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			1930-02-18 Locy Type 8
			Official Business

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N/A			1930-05-03 Locy Type 8
			Sailors mail

From the back of the May 3 1930 cover.

No Image			1930-05-14 Locy Type 6
			Category

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No Image			1930-07-11 Locy Type 8
			Category

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			1930-09-25 Locy Type 3s USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5c Locy Type 9x USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5n
			Category

Navy Penalty use

 

			1931-02-09 Locy Type 3s USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5c Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5h Locy Type 9x Locy Type 9w
			Category

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			1931-07-09 Locy Type 5hks "PORTSMOUTH / VA."
			Category

Pasted on hand colored cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1932-03-17 Locy Type 5hks "PORTSMOUTH / VA."
			Collectors request

Add-on cachet by Stewart Milstein

 

No Image			1932-05-30 Locy Type 5hks "MEMORIAL DAY / PORTS. VA."
			Category

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			1932-07-04 Locy Type 5hks "INDEPEND- / ENCE DAY"
			Independence Day

Cachet Maker: F G Klinger

 

			1935-02-22 Locy Type 5hks "WASHINGTON / BIRTHDAY"
			Washington's Birthday

Freshwater Cachet
Back black rubberstamp raymond R. Freshwater return

 

			1935-04-03 Locy Type 3s "LONG BEACH / CALIFORNIA" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5d
			Pony Express

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N/A			1936-04-07 Locy Type 5hks "RADIO / CONTROLLED"
			Marine Detachment.

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

			1936-05-30 Locy Type 3s "MEMORIAL / DAY" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5d
			Memorial Day 1936

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 22 Battleship Oregon and Louis R Diesing

 

			1936-08-31 Locy Type 3s "SILVER / ANNIVERSARY" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5d
			Ship Birthday

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 40 M T Woolsey and L N Freeman
Freeman is the cachet artist. His (her?) name is just under the stern of the ship.

 

			1937-08-31 Locy Type 3s "SAN PEDRO / CALIF" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5d
			Ship Birthday

Cachet Maker: Frederick Horton

 

			1937-10-27 Locy Type 5hks "NAVY / DAY"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Ted Harrington

 

			1938-04-18 Locy Type 7d
			Category

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers and Chester E Frowe

			1939-08-07 Locy Type 9x 1939-10-27 Locy Type 3s USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5d 1939-11-10 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5i Locy Type 9efw USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. U-5k Locy Type P (U-5h with "Registered" removed)
			U.S. Fleet

Crosby Photo Cachet

			1940-10-27 Locy Type 7d
			Navy Day 1940

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			1941-10-25 Locy Type 7d
			Category

Hendricks Cachet
Back signed Jagyi with ghost images of strike and cachet...Red rubberstamp "REPLACING DAMAGED COVER"

 

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