There are many ways to collect First Day Covers. This guide will discuss several major options, available resources, general pricing advice and more. How you collect is your choice. Whatever your choice, you...
First Day Covers (FDCs) commemorate the first day of issue of a postage stamp. Summary of things to watch for: Cachet - cachetted are better than non cachetted Cancels - standard vs special or local. Special...
All of us have seen sports cards or commemorative cards claiming to be two grams of 22k gold or more. Or first day issue stamps with 22k gold stamps attatched or just gold stamps. While by no means are they...
You don't have to be a stamp collector to enjoy and collect FIRST DAY COVERS. ALL THE FIRST DAY COVERS THAT I SELL ARE AUTHENTIC AND ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE. THEY ARE EITHER COMMERICALLY...
The 1968 10¢ U.S. Air Mail Service Stamp (C74) by Mark Bostick The 1968 10¢ U.S. Air Mail Service Air Mail Stamp commemorates the 50th (Golden) anniversary of the first scheduled United States Air Mail...
anyone shipping items through the us post should beware when they purchase insurance because the po will not pay and blame everything on the customer. If you are shipping anything and insuring it for a hundred...
Cachets by Julian Pugh Since the Chanute air post issue of 1979, Julian Pugh has been making hand-painted cachets for almost every US issue. His work is always well done and springs from his own imagination....