Cachet
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Cachet - Special handstamp (often a 'rubber stamp'), manuscript note, adhesive label or printed design borne by a postal item and confirming unusually a particular route or an interesting usage; e.g. a first flight on a particular route.
Cachet: In French, cachet means a stamp or a seal. On a cover, the cachet is an added design or text, often corresponding to the design of the postage stamp, the mailed journey of the cover, or some type of special event.
Cachet
A printed, embossed or (usually) handstruck inscription or device impressed on a postal packet to denote the special circumstances in which it has been posted (usually an exhibition).
Cachet (French pronounce ‘ka-shay') A design printed or stamped on an envelope describing or commemorating an event. Cachets can be for any event e.g. on first day of issue, first flight and stamp exhibition covers, etc.
Cachet: A seal usually used in First Day Covers.
Cancelled-to-order: stamps that care pre-cancelled governments.
Cancel: A mark showing that the stamp is used.
Cachet - A stamped or printed impression on an envelope which describes the event for which the envelope was mailed such as first days of issue, exhibitions or aviation or naval events, etc.
Cachet: In French, cachet means a stamp or a seal. In cover collecting, a cachet refers to a printed or handstamped design on an envelope denoting some special feature of the cover.
Cachet: A design found on an envelope describing an event. Cachets appear on modern first-day covers, first-flight covers and special-event covers.
Cachet
A design on an envelope, most frequently a first-day cover. Although they are primarily illustrative in nature, cachets can be completely composed of text.
*Cachet - 1.) any text or graphic applied to an envelope for a commemorative purpose. Cachets are frequently found on First Day Covers, Patriotic Covers and Event Covers. 2) any advertisement, ...
Cachet - a printed, embossed, or hand struck inscription, with or without illustration, impressed usually on the left side of an envelope face or postal packet to advertise the special circumstances under which the item was mailed, ...
Cacheted first day covers, on the other hand, are increasing in popularity.
Cachet - A design or artwork on the left hand side of an envelope, found primarily on first day covers.
Cancellation - A mark used by the post office to show that a stamp has been used.
Cachet
Illustration or description on an envelope denoting the commemorative purpose for which it was mailed.
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Painted cachet: hand drawn or hand made cachet to which hand painting of any nature has been applied.
Paio: (It.) two of a kind; stamps that have not been separated, pair.
FIRST DAY COVER: Envelope with stamp canceled on the first day of issue. Most covers from 1935 on are cacheted. Cachets are designs which relate to the topic of the stamp being issued.
Trains and Planes
A page showing First Flight covers with a train in the cachet, and some related items.
Creation
Souvenir Envelopes and Cancels of the Celebrate the Century Express
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Other branches of collecting include first-day covers (ADCs), which carry a stamp on the first day it was sold with that day's postmark. Some ADCs have a cachet (ca-SHAY), ...
2¢ Dr. Crawford W. Long, PAIR, FDC, color cachet, erased pencil address
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Zeppelins: The stamps issued for, or in honor of, zeppelin flights. Cacheted covers carried on such flights are Zeppelin covers.
 See also: Cover, Stamp, Used, Cancel, Postmark
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