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| 735073 |
United States First Day Cover Group: 1979-1981 With Unusual FD Cancels: Group of about 150 (2.75 inches stack tightly squeezed) U.S. FDCs on plain uncacheted small envelopes. Sent in for canceling to the FD city by a collector. About half have addresses typed on the envelopes and about half with typed address labels affixed. Most or all appear to have been returned to the collector directly through the mail, thus many have faint postal sorter markings on the reverse, proving postal transit. Because these we sent in to the cities for FD cancellations (and were not commercially processed), they have different versions of the FD cancellations than are usually seen for these stamp issues, both manual-lever-machine and handstamped. Such cancellations are not often offered from this era. There are a good range of both combination blocks and singles of se-tenant stamp issues, marginal markings (zip and copyright marginal singles), coil strips, etc. At first there appears to be light duplication, but most of those have different marginal markings. Though these look "ordinary", they are much, much scarcer than the usual commercially-made cacheted FDCs that were sold in large quantities. Covers like these are greatly under-appreciated. Many great topics are included in the stamp issues. Shipping cost is additional for this item. |
36.00 |