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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

 

			1938-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF."
			New Year's Day

Cachet Maker: Russell A Court

 

			1938-04-17 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "BREMERTON / WASHINGTON"
			Easter

Cachet Makers: Frederick Horton and P J (PeeJay) Ickeringill

 

		No Image	1938-04-31 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "BREMERTON / WASHINGTON"
			Category

Printed cachet (not the sticker) was created by Cachet Maker: Deane C Bartley

 

		No Image	1938-06-26 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "SEATTLE / WASHINGTON"
			Fleet Maneuvers

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

 

		No Image	1938-06-29 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "SEATTLE / WASHINGTON"
			Category

Note:

			1938-10-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Columbus Day

Cachet Maker: HUX Cachets and Frederick Horton

 

			1938-10-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Navy Day

Cachet Makers: Lucy Doan (artist), John Morrill (director), and New England Naval Cover Club (sponsor).

 

			1938-12-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Ship Birthday

Cachet Makers: Frederick Horton and P J (PeeJay) Ickeringill

 

			1938-12-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Ship Birthday

Cachet Maker: Ted Harrington

 

		No Image	1939-06-06 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF."
			Category

Cachet by Walter G Crosby. Cachet is thermographed.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-12-07 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Collectors request

Add-on cachet by Stewart Milstein.

 

N/A			1940-12-02 Locy Type 7qt(2)
			Sailors mail w/ Letter

From the David Pallante collection.

 

N/A			1941-01-02 USPO Machine Cancel Long Beach CA
			Sailors mail w/ Letter

From the David Pallante collection.

 

			1941-09-09 Locy Type 7qt(2)
			Hawaii

Cachet Maker: Curt Teich

 

		No Image	1941-09-15 Locy Type 7qt(2)
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1941-11-03 Locy Type 7qt(2)
			Category

Mailed by SK1/c Dean L. Skelton (1920-1984) who survived the attack. He was assigned to BENHAM the next day, and transferred again in June 1942 not long before she sank.!-- === End of Ship Cover Entry === -->

			1941-11-18 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

Cachet Maker: Sadworth

			1943-08-06 Locy Type 2az 1943-08-12 Washington D.C. Reg. Sec. Washington D.C. U.S. Fleet Post Office
			Official Business

Note:

 

N/A			1944-08-25 Locy Type 7rz
			Sailors mail w/ Letter

From the David Pallante collection.

			1945-09-02 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-20e
			Tokyo Bay

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1945-09-02 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-20e
			Tokyo Bay

Hand colored cachet

N/A		N/A	1945-09-02 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-20e
			Tokyo Bay

Cacheted

			1945-09-04 Locy Type P USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-20c
			Official Business

Note:

			1945-10-27 Locy Type P "NAVY DAY / SAN DIEGO / CALIF." USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-20
			Navy Day 1945

Crosby Cachet

 

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