First Day Cover
From Michael Breen, former About.com Guide
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Only a small fraction of philatelists collect covers. But you can easily find them in stamp collecting stores. You can also buy them online. 2-Clicks has a directory of US first day cover dealers.
How to store philatelic covers?
First Day Cover - an envelope on which a stamp is placed and cancelled on the first day of issue of that stamp. Typically a cachet is applied to the left side of the envelope describing the stamp's issue.
First Day Cover:
A Cover bearing a new stamp and cancelled on the first day of sale, usually at an officially designated location.
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First Day Cover Cover franked with a postage stamp or set of stamps postmarked on the first day of issue.
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.
First Day Cover
A cover bearing new stamps cancelled on the day of issue, normally with a special "First Day" postmark.
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First Day Cover (FDC): A cover bearing a stamp or stamps tied by a cancellation showing the date of the official first day of issue of that stamp or stamps.
First Day Cover: A cover bearing a stamp tied by a cancellation showing the date of the first day of issue of that stamp.
First Day Cover
A cover canceled with the official first day of issue date. The cancellation process is usually done away from the first day site, except for those at the ceremony. A 30 day time extension is usually granted to get covers canceled.
*First Day Cover - a cover cancelled on the day a stamp is issued, in the city in which it is released.
First day cover collecting, as such, can be attributed to the true scarcity of early U.S. stamps used on the date of issue.
First Day Cover
The first day of issue is the day on which a postage stamp, postal card or stamped envelope is put on sale, within the country or territory of the stamp-issuing authority.
FIRST DAY COVER (FDC) - An envelope bearing the cancellation date representing the first day of issue of the stamp. It is usually mailed from the station where the stamp was first put into circulation.
First Day Cover. Note cancellation indicating first day of issue. The design at the left is called a cachet.
First Day Cover - An envelope with a stamp canceled on its first day of sale.
Gum - Adhesive that is used to attach a stamp to an envelope.
FIRST DAY COVERS stamps on cover cancelled on their "First Day" of sale usually with a special cancel.
First Day Cover
Envelope or card postmarked on the affixed stamp's first day of use.
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flag cancel
A cancellation used during the early 20th century incorporating a flag design. The stripes of the flag are the killer bars. Also, any more recent cancel with a similar design. [Back to top] ...
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First day cover (FDC):
Pictorial envelope with related stamps (gummed or self-adhesive) or a mini-sheet postmarked on the first day of issue. It is valued for postage only on the day of issue, from the post office named on the postmark.
Joint Issue First Day Covers
One popular way to collect Joint Issues is on First Day Covers with First Day cancels from both (or all) participating countries, which would be very difficult, were it not for the policy of most postal administrations, ...
The American First Day Cover Society has about 2,800 members devoted to collecting first-day postmarks.
The cover shown in Figure 1 was produced by the ...
Picture A is a First Day Cover, so if you marked down A-5, you were right! Congratulations! ...
Modern First Day Cover: usually refers to the George Linn first cacheted envelope for the 2¢
Modern philately: refers to the current stamps being issued by the world's postal administrations.
Modones: Modena, Italian States, 1859.
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F.P.O. - Field Post Office
F.U. - Fine Used
Face - Face value, the price at which a postage stamp was first sold; in the case of charity or surcharged stamps, the total amount payable, ...
Filler - A stiff piece of paper or cardboard found inside a First Day Cover. It provides necessary stiffness for a clearer cancellation. It also provides protection to help prevent the bending of the cover as it travels through the mail.
A F D C S - American First Day Cover Society.
Agency - An organization authorized to publicize or sell new issues of stamps on behalf of a stamp-issuing entity.
Air Labels - See "Etiquettes." ...
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.
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Consider ‘philography’, the collecting of autographed first day covers. Also a good word to keep handy when you're trying to impress your friends, because they are almost guaranteed not to know what it means! ...
The Official First Day Cover is postmarked Banff, Alberta, where Canada's "Monarch of the Wilderness" is often seen.
 See also: First day, Stamp, Cover, Commemorative, Error
  
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