Apollo Covers Post Your Own

It was also displayed at one or more domestic US shows. Have a photo of one such display.

Likely explains the use of the image of the moon on a number of Express Mail stamps, even as "The Moon" is currently a DPO.

Good to see some folks appreciated my posting of the cover.

I haven't seen another one of these. What do you guys know about it?

This is a "Marg cachet" first day cover, of nominal value.
I like this cachet!

John

Thanks John,

I gather from the letter inside that this was some type of promotion from Foxboro Instruments. So this is a thing that companies did/do? Have "cachets" created?

Absolutely.

I haven't seen many in the last couple of decades, but it is probably still being done.

The magic of the "First Day of Issue" cancellation to the general public is hard to explain. It is a novelty that is not often seen.

In philatelic circles, however, FDCs are considered mostly very common. There are those who collect them, but, in my experience, it is the cachets that matter. In my situation, I am intrigued by cachets not produced in the thousands (Art Craft, Artmaster, and Fleetwood are the monster cachet makers). Every "first" cachet by a cachet maker is considerably more valuable than the others, usually. The hand painted cachets are popular, as well as early FDCs in general. It is all about the art for me. Some of the mass produced FDCs are beautiful as well. As contrived covers made for philatelic purposes, some purists look upon the whole area of FDC collecting with snobbery, and look down on those who collect them. That is nothing new...

It seems to me that a person should collect what is of interest to them.

John

Apollo 8

Apollo Soyuz

Apollo 14 (January 31, 1971 – February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands. It was the last of the "H missions", landings at specific sites of scientific interest on the Moon for two-day stays with two lunar extravehicular activities (EVAs or moonwalks).

USS Hawkins (DD-873) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. Following the war, the ship saw service in the Korean War and in the 1970s.
On 9 February 1971, Hawkins again participated in the space program as a backup recovery ship in the Atlantic for Apollo 14.