hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Aug 27, 2023 21:44:54 GMT
A FDC for the Francis Scott Key American Credo stamp from 1960 by the publishing firm of Grosset & Dunlap. Who can be first to spot the error on the FDC advertising enclosure?
Interesting spelling of Benjamin with the 'u'.
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Post by daniel on Aug 27, 2023 21:52:49 GMT
Also, the sixth stamp, with the Patrick Henry quotation, was issued in January 1961.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Aug 27, 2023 22:11:12 GMT
A FDC for the Francis Scott Key American Credo stamp from 1960 by the publishing firm of Grosset & Dunlap. Who can be first to spot the error on the FDC advertising enclosure?
Interesting spelling of Benjamin with the 'u'. Thanks! Good catch on that spelling which I had not noticed. But that's not the big error.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Aug 27, 2023 22:12:26 GMT
Also, the sixth stamp, with the Patrick Henry quotation, was issued in January 1961. Thanks. This is true, but that is a quibble compared to the BIG error.
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 27, 2023 22:15:52 GMT
A classy set for sure, but only five of the six Credo stamps were issued in 1960. The sixth, the Patrick Henry stamp, was not issued until January 11, 1961. There is also the inclusion of Robert E. Lee's name at the bottom of the insert card. No quote of his is included in the set.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Aug 27, 2023 22:26:53 GMT
A classy set for sure, but only five of the six Credo stamps were issued in 1960. The sixth, the Patrick Henry stamp, was not issued until January 11, 1961. There is also the inclusion of Robert E. Lee's name at the bottom of the insert card. No quote of his is included in the set.
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Robert E. Lee instead of Francis Scott Key BINGO!
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hdm1950
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Posts: 1,605
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Aug 27, 2023 22:27:23 GMT
Interesting spelling of Benjamin with the 'u'. Thanks! Good catch on that spelling which I had not noticed. But that's not the big error. Robert E Lee instead of Francis Scott Key. That is bad! stamphinger was posting I guess as I was researching.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Aug 28, 2023 1:26:02 GMT
A less-common user of commercial mail FDCs
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 24, 2023 17:10:47 GMT
Commercial first-day usage cover from the Readers Digest, for one of my favorite U.S. commemoratives. Sc. C74. I could also include this cover in my Variant Air Mail Borders collection for its unusual usage of four, instead of two, red and blue lines as an airmail designation. It could also go in my Aircraft on Covers for the inclusion of the nicely detailed image of the Curtiss Jenny in the cachet. Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 6, 2023 17:49:17 GMT
I'm writing up some commercial usage first-days and came across this one from the Columbia Envelope Co. It probably carried an offer of specialty envelopes for publication-sized envelopes.
Don StampHinger I should have included the cover below in this original post, but forgot it. It is the same first-day event and I'm going to add it here with the edit feature.
Besides the cachet being a little more colorful, this cover is interesting to me for the printed comment in the center (circled in red). For some time, I have thought that independent mailing companies prepared first-day mailings for commercial usage, but have never seen any evidence. This cover seems to provide a clue. Note the arrow pointing to FREDERICK POST CO. Internet information indicates that Frederick Post once made and sold slide rules and scientific instruments and that there is now a Frederick Post Museum for scientific instruments. It appears that the company most likely prepared this cover for the cachet sponsors. Does anyone know if there were companies that prepared first-day mailings for companies that wanted to use a first day cover for advertising purposes?
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 10, 2023 17:27:16 GMT
Here is a commercial usage first-day from Good Housekeeping magazine passed on to a collector from an obvious non-collector friend/coworker. I say obvious non-collector or it would not have the message penned on it in ballpoint pen. The message illustrates one of the downsides of collecting commercial usage first-days, they are often stored improperly or damaged in some way. I collected this one for the irony displayed by the message, written with only good intentions.
The stamp is Sc. 1080, commemorating the 50th anniversary of U.S. pure food and drug laws.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 22, 2023 23:31:23 GMT
A commercial first-day cover with cachet sponsored by The United States Lines for Sc. 1258, the 5 cents stamp commemorating the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge spanning the Narrows and linking Staten Island, and Brooklyn, New York.
The U.S. Lines had its origin in 1917 when it was organized as the operating company of the Emergency Fleet Company, an entity that took control of seized and captured Germany ships during WW I. The company went private in 1929 as United States Lines and continued in business until 1969. The United States Lines is especially known as the company that built and operated SS United States, the largest ship built in the U.S. and, at the time of its entry into service (1952), the fastest ocean liner on the seas.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 28, 2023 18:59:39 GMT
A pair of commercial usage covers from the same company with different first-day of issue stamps. These are from Doyle Pharmaceutical Co., of Minneapolis, Minnesota and both are covers commemorating medically-related stamp issues, Sc. 1251, the 1964 5 cents stamp commemorating Drs. Charles and William Mayo, co-founders of the Mayo Clinic and Sc. 1263, the 1965 5 cents stamp publicizing the Crusade Against Cancer. While carrying the name and address of the D.M. Doyle Pharmaceutical Co of Minneapolis (a division of the Dietene Company), both covers have commercial cachets produced by ArtCraft and ArtMaster respectively. The Dietene Company manufactured and sold weight loss products. The Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minnesota, dates its origins back to the late 1880s Below the address window of the Mayo Brothers cover is another of those well intentioned notes written in ballpoint pen from an accommodating mail clerk or secretary passing the cover on to a Dr. Rosenbaum. Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 2, 2023 17:41:15 GMT
An interesting commercial usage first-day from The Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., manufacturers of Ticonderoga pencils on a cover commemorating the 3 cents Fort Ticonderoga stamp, Sc. 1071. The image of the pencil extends over the top of the cover and is completed on the back flap.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 9, 2023 22:50:28 GMT
A commercial usage first-day from The Tri-Arts Press of New York City for the ubiquitous Sc. 1075, the souvenir sheet from the Fifth International Philatelic Exhibition held in NYC April 28 - March 6, 1956. It doesn't look like Tri-Arts is still in business, but the press was known for its fine printing and use of elegant fonts. Don StampHinger
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Dec 9, 2023 23:28:24 GMT
stamphinger I believe that’s the first FIPEX commercial mail FDC I’ve seen. Nice.
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 10, 2023 0:49:57 GMT
Here is a commercial FDC usage by The Barton, Duer, & Koch Paper Co., for Sc. 1038, the 5 cents James Monroe stamp from the 1954 Liberty definitive set. Barton, Duer & Koch made and sold fine papers and envelopes. This cover included a sample of the company's parchment paper, the printing on which is more colorful than the company corner card. The Monroe stamp was a December first day of issue, hence the present timely Christmas theme below.
Also, note the statement just above "Fairfax Parchment" on the second image below offering to provide a #6 first-day cover to collectors who preferred the smaller size envelope, a very stamp collector friendly company.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 10, 2023 0:52:05 GMT
stamphinger I believe that’s the first FIPEX commercial mail FDC I’ve seen. Nice.
Thanks. I probably should not have used the adjective ubiquetious for the souvenir sheet in a post for commercial ussage FDCs. The souvenir sheet, however, has wide usage on other philatelic mails and that is what I meant
Don.
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 10, 2023 17:21:32 GMT
I'm writing up commercial usage first-days again and this one is next. It was mailed at AmeriStamp Expo in Charleston, SC, in 2011 by the American Philatelic Society to introduce the Mighty Buck Club to members. The stamp is Sc. 4495. The Mighty Buck Club is a target for small dollar donations to the society to fund special projects. It has proved successful and is still running.
Don StampHinger
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swvl
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What I collect: FDCs, plus some US modern and new issues. Topical interests include music, art, literature, baseball, space...
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Post by swvl on Dec 10, 2023 17:59:18 GMT
That's an interesting one, Don stamphinger: a first day cover with no first day cancel (or any other for that matter)!
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 11, 2023 16:41:33 GMT
Thanks for the comment. Yes, no cancel on nonprofit items. Here's another one, Sc. U635, 1993, also from the American Philatelic Society. Don
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Post by swvl on Dec 11, 2023 23:03:49 GMT
Another nice one! I have a FDC of Sc. U635 in my collection, produced by USPS for sale to philatelists. (I bought it back then as part of a first-day ceremony program for this and a couple of other items issued that day.) It has a 29-cent stamp (Sc. 2486) and a FDOI cancel. It's a fun irony that the non-canceled versions of these covers are the ones that demonstrate actual postal use. And now I'll stop taking us off-topic....
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 14, 2023 16:44:06 GMT
Yet another embossed envelope commercial usage FDC, this one Sc. U603 commemorating the 200th anniversary of the purple heart military medal. The cover is the product of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, a foundation. Covers like these are typically given to donors to the foundation. Nothing on the back of this cover.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 17, 2023 17:12:14 GMT
A commercial usage first day from publishers Grosset & Dunlap. Grossett & Dunlap is known for its publication of juvenile and children's literature and reprints. This is only the second Grossett & Dunlap cover that I have from the series of six stamps in the American Credo set. This one the quote by George Washington.My goal is to find all six. There is discussion of this series by Jeffs above (August 29, 2023) in this thread. The Journal American newspaper also prepared covers for this series as well. An attractive stamp series, Sc. 1139-1144. Don StampHinger
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