Lexington Concord - Is This A FDC?

This cover has always puzzled me. Not sure why there are two different cancellations. I can't read the date on the lower cancellation, and it looks like the 2 and 5 cent stamps were added after the letter was addressed and cancelled the first time. Any opinions?

Definitely a First Day Cover! The first cancel at top was a machine cancel; the duplex cancel applied to the bottom two stamps (also April 4, 1925 date) was affixed to "tie" the bottom two stamps to the cover. A great find! The 2011 SCV for all three stamps on one cover with the Concord Junction cancellation is $175.00.

@wt1 - Thanks for the input! One question...why do you think they used both cancels instead of two hand cancels? Have you seen this on any other LC FDC's?

I assume the machine cancel could only strike a stamp in the upper right hand corner of the envelope. Back in the day that these covers were produced, a collector would have to submit self addressed envelopes to the Postmaster along with their request (and remittance) covering the requested stamps to be affixed. I can only assume the US Post Office clerks elected to put the stamps on the right hand side of the cover (which makes perfect sense) but in order to do so it had to partially obscure the rather large return address written by the collector. In order to "tie" the stamps to the cover with a postmark, they had to use a duplex handstamp cancel for the bottom two stamps that the machine cancel would not have otherwise reached.

[Edit]: Here's another example taken from McCusker's FDC web site. This example (same addressee and same Concord Junction cancellation) is currently on their website for a "sale price" of $90 (reg. $100):

Ha! Twins! (except McCusker's is the pretty one!)

Thanks again for the help on this. Still a pretty neat cover!

...yours is in decimal order though ... 1c, 2c & 5c, whereas McCusker's is 2c, 1c, 5c.

For the record, the addressee on the cover H.F. Colman (Hamilton F. Colman), was a well known stamp dealer in Washington, DC back in the day. In fact, he is part of the recorded history of the purchase of the first 24c Inverted Jenny airmail stamps when they were first discovered.