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First day covers are sold on the first day of postal release along with the first day cover stamps. A first day cover album is good way to store your post office first day covers. First day cover collectors like their mint.

First day covers, mailed on the first day of issue of a stamp.
Cacheted covers, sent on envelopes with additional artwork, usually relating to the theme of the stamp.

FIRST DAY COVERS stamps on cover cancelled on their "First Day" of sale usually with a special cancel.

Cacheted first day covers, on the other hand, are increasing in popularity.

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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, ...

Less than 100 First Day Covers were prepared by four collectors.
Varieties - stamps which in detail differ from the ordinary or normal issue fall within this category, ...

Illustrated Mail Division: APS term for exhibition classification to include advertising covers, patriotic covers, corner cards, first day covers (with focus on cachet) and maximum cards; note that post cards are not included.

Modern First Day Covers may actually be cancelled up to 30 days after the date of issue, and not necessarily in the city whose postmarks they bear. First Day Covers may be addressed or unaddressed, and with or without cachets.

These are called "First Day Covers", and are collected by many people. This cover was issued to celebrate a project that successfully raises Peregrine Falcons at a military base in Alberta.

If one does not wish to go to all of the trouble incident to preparing his own first day covers there are many services available that will undertake this work for you at a minimum cost and assure you of receiving all new stamps as they are issued.

Material, other than first day covers, that properly belongs in a FDC exhibit, including ceremony programs, official USPS new issue announcements or promotion material and souvenir pages and panes. [Back to top]
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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.

An example of a first-day cover for the 45¢ Pumpkinseed Sunfish stamp of 1992 is shown in Figure 5. Many modern first day covers include a cachet on the envelope, ...

First day covers for individual stamps issues were first produced by the Australian Post Office (now Australia Post) in March 1970 for the World Expo '70 stamps.
In 1977, Australia issued one of its most controversial stamps ever.

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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! ...

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. Cachets appear on modern first day covers. Cancel, ...

Bourse - A gathering of a group of dealers and collectors at which stamps, first day covers, and supplies are bought, traded, and/or sold.

See also: Cover, First day, First day cover, Stamp, Philatelic

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