First Day Covers - It's all about the cachet - Printable Version

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First Day Covers - It's all about the cachet - Webmaster - 16-02-2021

Yes, First Day Covers are a "manufactured item" and don't necessarily appeal to purists, but the artistic attraction of a good cachet  is hard to deny.

Some collectors like a particular stamp and collect all the available cachets they can find for just that issue (the Iwo Jima stamp of 1945 is a popular one for this). Others collect everything (because that's the way they are!), while still others collect only those FDCs that appeal to them from an artistic, historical or other standpoint -- that's me.

One of my favourite artists for US FDCs is Day Lowry, whose work appeared mostly on Aristocrat Cachets during the 1940s and 1950s

Here are a few samples

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(You can click on any of the above images to see a larger version).

Want to see more of this kind of post? Add your comments and give me some feedback.

Have a favourite FDC of your own? Show us!

Roy

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RE: First Day Covers - It's all about the cachet - rweigand - 19-02-2021

Roy - This was a gifted cache artist! Well done, appreciated this presentation. Richard Weigand

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