W1001s

Stamp Collecting

Hobby

Fred Collins Signature

Summer 2020 Mail Sale Commentary 

Lot 8 W1001 — Stamp Collecting 1-23-86

This cover has all four lovely, extra-large stamps from the Stamp Collecting set. My first stop was State College, Pennsylvania, to obtain the official first day cancel. Then it was off to Swedesboro, New Jersey, for my unofficial. The stamp at the lower left has as part of its design a stamp from 1938 showing the landing of the Swedes and Finns. To add a "just right" final touch, I affixed to each cover the actual 1938 stamp that depicts the 1638 landing at Fort Christina three hundred years previously. Both of these stamps were then postmarked with the Swedesboro day of issue postmark This is an exciting Collins first day cover from over 35 years ago.