ArtCraft covers have been produced for almost every U.S. stamp issue since
the World's Fair Issue of April 1, 1939,
"...There wasn't time to create a design an prepare a plate for the cachet,
but Bill Decker's company had a plate with the Fair theme, for use on letterheads,
and this perisphere and trylon motif (symbolizing the Fair) was the right
size for a cachet. With a minimum of reworking, Al Nelson converted the
letterhead plate, and thus the "first" ArtCraft engraving came into being.
With reruns, only about 2,500 impressions were made, so it's by far the
scarcest of them all. ..."
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Colorano started producing covers January 19, 1971 with Scott number
1423. They are still producing covers to this day. They produce
a beautiful silk cachet that adheres to the envelope.
Fleetwood started producing covers March 4, 1941 with Scott number
903. They are still producing covers to this day. We have the
first Fleetwood to some of the current issues (
produced by Unicover - aj.). They started out with
simple black and white cachets and now produce beautiful full color cachets.
Fluegel started producing covers June 27, 1945 with Scott number 932 and
ended October 18, 1966 Scott number 1361. They are beautiful mulitcolor
cachets. But some of Fluegels cachets are still used today with the
newly released stamps. -
The original
link to this info page is now dead :(
E-mail: Marty Severe: "I also produce
and sell the ArtCraft variety catalog which lists over 12,000 ArtCraft
collectibles and contains prices."
It is entitled "The Comprehensive Listing of ArtCraft Covers; Their Varieties
and Values (1939-1996)" [5th ed.], covers U.S., UN, and foreign FDCs as well as
miscellaneous event and topical covers.
It "documents all known Artcraft covers and varieties produced by
the Washington Press (Washington Stamp Exchange) (including those
marketed by the
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Postal Commemorative Society (PCS))"
Retails for $29.50 + $3.50 postage. Dealers can inquire. (c. 2000)
Artmaster, Inc. Home to
Artmaster, House of Farnam and Cover Craft Cachets.
P.O. Box 7156
Louisville, KY 40257-0156
1-888-200-6466
FAX: 502-587-2314
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST Monday - Friday
a/o 2000 Brookman Covers has taken over the FDC division of Brookman,
"This acquisition gives Artmaster customers full access to a
complete line of general back issue First Day Covers, including
specialty cachets such as Collins, Fluegel, Roesseler, Barbour
and Heritage. The new company is called the :
Created by Paul Edney (out for the year 2007 having been deployed to Iraq); who owns
'Stamp Shows Worlwide
and 'The Stamp Yellow Pages Directory'
- 'Hawai'i Post' is a urgent delivery service in
Waikiki which issues its own 'Local Post' stamps for prepayment and is one
one of the few that
have offered collectors the opportunity to get its stamps and covers from the
first issue. (8/31/01)
Contact Paul's E-mail
"I personally design, hand draw, and color each cachet, thus making each
cachet an individual piece of artwork. When designing my covers I try to
think of a design that always relates to the stamp issue and might add
some historical value to the cover. Unfortunately, since this is mainly
a hobby, I don't always have the time and resources to create a cachet
for every US issue.
RKA (& Dynamite) Covers "Dealers of quality U.S. covers which include First Day Covers,
Postal History, Air Mail Flights, Zeppelins, Navals, Advertising, RPOs, Hand-Painted
and our own lines of First Day Covers." Also holds a bi-monthly Mail Bid
Sale.
(nice people - - I ordered HR-7; a hand
painted baseball cover aj)
RKA Covers, PO Box 6508, Lafayette,
IN 47903-6508 Tel.:1-888-757-7527, Fax: 1-765-477-2508
E-mail,
Accepts PayPal
Personal specialty: First Day Covers of North Carolina and Fire Service issues
Produces Baseball FDC's, This "is my cachetmaking venture that started with the 1983 Babe
Ruth stamp..." - I have one - he
has done only 3 baseball fdc's a/o 1/99 , Expanded site 3/2000 - dealing heavy in FDC's
E-mail
A.G. Bradbury (Adrian Bradbury)
3 Link Road, Leicester LE2 3RA, UK
Tel +44 (0) 116 270 5367, Fax 0116 270 9377
E-mail Produces & sells British Commonwealth First Day Covers
's
Encyclopedia of Stamps and Philatelic Links
Mellone's Planty Photo Encyclopedia of Cacheted FDC's - (10 volumes)
"Photos of every known printed cachet ... 1901-36 ... Scott#'s 294 - 784"
