Today I'm posting about Official versus Non-official First Day Covers.
Official FDCs are the ones issued by the countries' Postal Agency, like the one I'm showing you bellow, issued 30.4.1973:
PORTUGAL: Europa CEPT issue of 1973
On the same day, a Portuguese national collectors' association, named CFP and probably one of the biggest in the country, also issued its FDC, with of course a different cachet.
Some more examples of other FDCs issued by the CFP:
Some more examples of other FDCs issued by the CFP:
In my personal opinion, all cachet makers have their space in the philatelic market, the US is a good example of that... with so many makers!!! Yes... I know that the official US PO FDCs are blank ones, wich leaves more market room for all the makers!
Our Portuguese official PO FDCs are not blank but with a chachet.... And that is probably the reason why, here in Portugal, today no one makes any cachet FDCs! We all buy the oficial ones or none at all!
So... I leave here an enormous congratulation to all former cachet makers of Portugal and all the still active cachet makers in the world... that still give us the chance to pick a FDC from a huge variety of diferent cachet images :) Thank you all!!!
Our Portuguese official PO FDCs are not blank but with a chachet.... And that is probably the reason why, here in Portugal, today no one makes any cachet FDCs! We all buy the oficial ones or none at all!
So... I leave here an enormous congratulation to all former cachet makers of Portugal and all the still active cachet makers in the world... that still give us the chance to pick a FDC from a huge variety of diferent cachet images :) Thank you all!!!
3 comments:
I don´t like much the FDC. It happens that you can cancel your stamps with a FD cancellation even many months after the day of issue. So the "First Day" part is quite a lie, just to allow the collectors fill their albums..
The duration of the 1st day cancellation varies from country to country (from a couple of years to a couple of days).
Here I think it is 1 year.
I personally like unaddressed fdcs but postally used covers have the most historical value, for sure!
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