2009 Abraham Lincoln Covers

Hi stamperdude,nice covers,I will enjoy them for my disengaged afternoon.

Most impressive covers Josh,I love to see them from every state now that would be magic

Has anyone else besides T360 received any non-philatelic first day covers? Now those would be a nice addition to my collection.

Here are a few more. I can't stop now.

I made this cachet myself.
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These 2 were made by cachet hand paint artist Nirlay
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Here is my Springpatch Local Post First Day of Operation cover
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The next 2 images is the front and back of the Springfield Philatelic Society 200th birthday cover & postmark
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The last one is from an ACE member who goes by the handle of Big Dewey. It features the USS Abraham Lincoln.


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OOPS, one more. It is the USPS insert packed with each shrinkwrapped package of 2,000 panes of Abraham Lincoln stamps. There are 6 different pane positions and I have 1 card for each position.


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I am now currently out of stamps and need to buy more.

Wonderful collection Stamperdude

You have an amazing topical there.

Dianne

I like the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln cover... very cool!



David

David,
The USS Lincoln cover was a freebie from a ship cancel collector I know. I was very pleased with it. I do have a couple postmarks from the ship in my collection.

nice collection. I wonder how you cancelled my cachets.

nirlay

Nirlay,
Thanks and welcome to the group. I hope you become an active member here.

Thanks for posting my cover, looks good :-)

Yes, I would definitely be visiting this group often, but I was quite taken aback with the links rule and posting images rule. I am quite eager to get past the 50 posts and post some images.

welcome yes we all know how you fel about the 50 posts we were all there at one time but believe me it will be here before you know it hang in there hey stamperdude what is a non-philatelic first day cover please explain it to the newbee im trying to know what everything means lots more to stamping then anybody would think THANKS

Tina,
A "non-philatelic first day cover" would be a letter or stamped item sent through the mailstream with a stamp issued and postmarked on its first day of sale. It could be either business or personal coorespondance. For instance, if someone bought the Lincoln stamps on 2/9/09 and mailed a letter to someone that same day and the Lincoln stamp used on cover is postmarked 2/9/09. It looks like any other ordinary envelope, stamp, and postmark you could receive from a non collector point of view. It could also be considered a unofficial first day of sale postmark. Usually, the sender would not have a cachet or text on the cover regarding it being the first day of sale. I hope this helps.

Thank you stamperdude. I did not know that there was such a thing as an unofficial first day cover. SO basically it is just by coincidence that the mail was sent on the first day of issue

Yep, that would be 1 explanation...another could be that a stamp collector did it intentionally. Just for the fun of it.

Thank you Stamperdude well I guess what I have a whole bunch of is the un-mailed ones that havent been sent through the mail do the collectors like the mailed ones or un-mailed ones better or does it even matter?