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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

			1936-04-01 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "BUY U.S. SAVINGS / BONDS / ASK YOUR POSTMASTER" Quincy MA
			Keel Laying

Cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick. Cachet is partly thermographed.

N/A			1936-04-01 Locy Type SLPs (46x5) with T-3 killer bars "U.S.S. WASP / KEEL LAID" USS Perry DD-340
			Keel Laying

Cachet by Lloyd A. Nace. From the Ronald Finger collection.

N/A			1940-04-25 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BTT) "FIRST DAY IN / COMMISSION"
			Commissioning

Cachet by Gordon A. Shaw, sponsored by Lloyd A. Nace. From the Ronald Finger collection.

			1940-04-25 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BTT) "FIRST DAY IN / COMMISSION"
			Ship Commissioning

Cachet by Walter Czubay, sponsored by the National Cachet Society

			1940-04-25 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BTT) "FIRST DAY IN / COMMISSION"
			Commissioning

Cachet by Eugene L Mueller

			1940-04-25 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BTT) "FIRST DAY IN / COMMISSION"
			Commissioning

Cachet by George Neumann and Frederick Horton

			1940-04-25 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BTT) "FIRST DAY IN / COMMISSION" Locy Type FDC 9v Locy Type FDC 9x
			Commissioning

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			1940-04-25 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BTT) "FIRST DAY IN / COMMISSION"
			First Day in Commission

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N/A			1940-04-25 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BTT) "FIRST DAY IN / COMMISSION"
			First Day in Commission

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No Image		No Image	1940-04-25 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BTT) "FIRST DAY IN / COMMISSION"
			Ship Commissioning

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

N/A			1940-05-16 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "BOSTON / MASS"
			Category

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			1940-06-21 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "BOSTON / MASS"
			Official Business

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			1940-06-25 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "? / NORFOLK VA"
			Official Business

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			1940-07-10 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT, D2) "GUANTANAMO / BAY, CUBA"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by George V Sadworth. Cachet is thermographed. Postmark on the back of the cover is from USS Turkey ATO-143.

			1940-07-15 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT, D2) "ARRIVE / NORFOLK"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by George Neumann and Frederick Horton

N/A			1940-08-02 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "ARMY BASE / BOSTON"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by George Neumann and Frederick Horton

			1940-08-02 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "ARMY BASE / BOSTON"
			Ship's Data

Cachet by Louis C. Weigand

No Image		No Image	1940-08-21 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "ARMY BASE / BOSTON"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

			1940-09-12 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "NORFOLK / VA" Locy Type 6ep(2) Locy Type 9v Locy Type 9x Locy Type 9efw
			Collectors request

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N/A		N/A	1941-02-17 Locy Type 3 (BBB) "FIRST / DAY" Fighting Squadron 72
			FDPS

From the Tom Kean collection.

No Image		No Image	1940-11-11 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "ARMISTICE / DAY"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

			1941-04-04 Locy Type 7
			Collectors request

Cachet by Sibley's Department Store (Hobby Shop)

No Image			1941-11-20 Locy Type 7z
			Collectors request

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			1980-04-25 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS) USS Valdez FF-1096
			Ship Birthday

Cachet by the USS Springfield Chapter No. 77, USCS.

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