Postal Card FDC's

A little something for you FDC fans...

and to bump the thread,
a particularly nice FDPC first day postal card
to my way of thinking

Caesar Rodney.

Interestingly,
I looked up my copy of the declaration of Independance
and Mr. Rodney spelt his name wrong!

Was he overcome by circumstance?

Can one mispell his or her own name. My first name is Ronald, but if I choose to spell it Tynhrd, then that should settle it. lol

That tickled me!

sweet, you all know my weakness is FDC's

Auction Lot named : "Unsold previous Lots"
The sweetener, was the Hagner of Turkey revenues.

I portion of the lot was labelled 12 FDC (US) for $1
There was a "weather services postal card" amongst them

Having done a great deal of genealogical research over the years it is not uncommon for people from the 1800s and earlier eras to spell their name differently at different times. Back then spelling of ones own name was a bit less formal that it is today. For example, I have an famous ancestor who lived from 1701 to 1772 - Colonel Zaccheus Lovewell who commanded the 1000 man New Hampshire Colonial Infantry Regiment at the Battles of Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point during the French and Indian Wars (or the Seven Year's War if you are Canadian or European). He was very well educated but I have seen his signature of his first name in his own handwriting as both Zaccheus and Zacheus. Which is correct? I think both are since that is the way he wrote his name on different occasions.

I was thinking "Geroge" was a printing mistake by the Label Maker.

The idea of spelling conventions for names, and really for any words did not come around until the 19th century. Previous to that the goal was legible script and a spelling that was "close enough".