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Presidents

28 - Woodrow Wilson

Collins Cover Announcemnt 

PRESIDENTIAL SET

It is with much pleasure and anticipation that I announce the ordering availability of the COLLINS hand-painted and strictly limited Presidential set. These magnificent First Day Covers will only be able to be acquired on a pre-subscription basis and, as such, will immediately upon issue have a "sold-out" status. For those of you who have followed the price increases on the open market for "sold-out COLLINS FDCs", this group of Presidential covers will definitely join their forerunners as hard to get collectibles. I guarantee you won't go wrong by making sure now that you will own a set at original price.

The hand-painted cachets will stack up against any COLLINS ever produced. We are talking awesome! Each will have a highly realistic portrait of the individual president. I promise you that these painstaking portraits will be of the finest quality you have ever seen on a cover. In addition, each cover will display a major event in American history that took place during the depicted president's term of office.

Without hesitation, I assure you that the full-cover (entire) hand-painted cachet combination of portrait and historical renditions will be judged as some of the finest FDCs ever produced.

Each will also have a dynamite unofficial First Day cancel.

It will be PERFECT for the set and will show that each cover is truly a First Day. Hundreds of thousands of other mass produced covers for this set will have the official city machine cancel - but your COLLINS limited edition set will have the related hand unofficial cancels. They will always be regarded by collectors as something special.

In order to make this wonderful set affordable to each of you, I've decided to offer a 36 month payment plan. If you desire this set, please send $9 now (no later than Oct. 30th) and then $9 per month beginning on Nov. 30th and the 30th of each month thereafter. It is important to remember that as with my Express Mail cover and Bird/Flower set, these Presidential covers will only be available by advance order. You will not be able to get them afterwards because I will not be doing extras.

It is necessary for me to begin payments now to cover expenses of stamps, issue date help, travel, printing and the hundieds

of hours needed to research and design each of the 36 individual cachets of the set. Also, the price of each cover is slightly

higher than usual, but this is necessary because of the tremendous amount of hand painting that each cover will need. I am really excited about this set - it will go beyond your expectations.

There is, of course, a full money-back guarantee. You can request a full refund at any time or return covers to me at any time. There is no risk so that is why I urge you to sign up for a set today. The up-side Potential for a significant increase in value is certainly a probability, so a set makes sense in terms of both a collectible and possible investment. The down-side risk isn't a factor since I'll always buy them back at full purchase price if you ever need or want to sell.

You will begin receiving your covers monthly in May, and I plan to complete delivery within about 18 months. This time is necessary because of the extensive hand painting for each full cover cachet.

I urge you to send in your first $9 payment as soon as possible so that you are sure to be "on the list". (If you want more than one set, send $9 for each set desired.) When I offered my Bird and Flower set a few collectors passed it up -- and have since regretted it. If you have become a COLLINS collector since the Bird and Flower set was offered, the only way you could have purchased it is at auction or from an original collector. Now, each of you receiving this notice has the opportunity to participate in this current COLLINS happening.

The "Presidential project" is a vast undertaking, but it promises to result in a 36 FDC set that will truly be one of the great collectibles in our hobby -- past, present or future. Don't miss out. An affordable monthly payment of $9 backed by a full

guarantee makes this an offer that you shouldn't pass up.

Future COLLINS collectors and Presidential topical collectors will wish they had had this chance that is now yours. (Just as many of you now wish you had the chance for the State Bird and Flower set.) COLLINS numbers will be assigned at a later date. The cachets will be spectacular, the cancels perfect and the numbers limited to only those produced for advance orders. You will be happy to have this set in Your holdings, so don't miss it.

Please send $9 for each set desired on or before Oct. 30, 1985. Check or money order should be made payable to FRED COLLINS. Since sets produced will correspond to sets ordered, I will be able to honor multiple set requests. N.J. residents must add 6% Sales Tax.