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First Days 1 RICAN F E IR M S a T January–February 2020 RICAN F E IR M S A T D FIRST DAY OF ISSUE A Y FIRST ★ Y ® C T O IE VER SOC DAYS Journal of the American First Day Cover Society A Mirror of the Past www.jamesmccusker.com The One-Stop Web Site for First Day Cover Enthusiasts! If you like auctions, we offer a different 800 lot auction every 4 weeks. If you prefer to buy outright, our On-line Shopping area is the Net’s largest. Currently over 80,000 different items are available and growing. Log-on today to browse our auctions and shopping area, or enter our FDC Library to read up on a wealth of FDC information. Frequent Buyer Program Here’s how it works: Whenever you purchase something from our on-line shopping area, you will receive a merchandise credit equal to 10% of that purchase. We will e-mail you a quarterly certificate equal to 10% of the previous quarter’s total purchases. 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January–February 2020 • First Days 1 RICAN F E IR M S A T D FIRST DAY OF ISSUE A Y FIRST DAYS ★ January / February 2020 • www.AFDCS.org Y ® C T O IE VER SOC Whole Number 450 • Volume 65 Number 1 The American First Day Cover Society publish- es First Days bimonthly at POB 16277, Tucson, AZ 83732. The subscription price is included Contents with membership. Content ©2020 American First Day Cover Society; Design ©2020 Albert Eric O. Wile: A Mystery Solved .................................. 16 W. Starkweather. Ralph H. Nafziger: The Oregon Statehood Issue ...... 24 No portion of this journal may be reproduced without the written permission of the editor. Alan Warren: Finland Birth Certificates Part 2 ......... 38 Opinions expressed in First Days are those of Foster Miller: The President’s ‘Mail Clerk’ ................ 50 the authors and not necessarily of the society. Submit editorial matter to the editor. Send all Foster Miller: Monte Eiserman Dies at 93 ................ 52 advertising material to the advertising manager. Foster Miller: John Byrnes Dies at 67 ...................... 55 Every effort is taken to ensure accuracy, but Alan Warren: George Giffenhagen Dies at 95 .......... 56 validity is not guaranteed. Some names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are Todd Ronnei: Getting Crazy With Combos ................ 57 used for identification and explanation, without Tony Dewey: A Mirror of the Past ............................. 60 intent to infringe. The AFDCS logo is a regis- tered trademark. AMERICOVER 2019 Awards & Reports: Editor Four Receive Distinguished Service Awards......... 72 Albert W. Starkweather Membership Meeting ............................................ 73 5668 Tranquility Oaks Dr., Unit 208 Board of Directors Open Meeting .......................... 74 Tampa, FL 33624-5849 Business Meeting and Exhibit Awards .................. 75 [email protected]; 813-962-7964 Contributing Editors Departments & Columns Gary Denis President’s Message: Michael Litvak What Is the AFDCS Cooking Up Now? ......................4 Ralph Nafziger Editor’s Opinion: 5 Todd Ronnei Can You Trust Guinness .................... Gerald H. Strauss GB Covers: Backstamped London ...............................6 Alan Warren Youth Field: Collecting Women on Stamps .................8 Advertising Manager In-Sites: StampOnTheWeb Worldwide Links ..............9 Mark Thompson ArtCraft Variety Spotlight: 10 1709 Russell Street Rutgers Football FDC ....... Nashville, TN 37206 Hammered Down: Mohler Sale Falls Short .............. 14 [email protected] Tris Fall: First Days 2019 Subject Index ................... 42 Executive Secretary Book Review: An Up-to-Date Norway Catalogue...... 62 Doug Kelsey POB 16277 Question Box: What is the Correct Spelling? ........... 64 Tucson, AZ 85732 AFDCS Chooses Scott as Board Chair ...................... 64 [email protected]; 520-321-0880 Auction News: A New Year and a New Decade ....... 65 Printed in the United States of America. Pe- riodicals postage paid at Tucson, Ariz., and Canadian Cachets: 3AngryCatss Classy Cachets .... 66 additional mailing offices. Awards & Honors: 2019 FDC Exhibiting Declines .... 70 Postmaster ...... 71 Send address changes to FDC Exhibits Set Record in Peachtree Corners AFDCS Chapter News: A Busy Season ................................. 76 POB 16277 Executive Secretary’s Report ................................... 78 Tucson, AZ 85732 Advertiser Index ........................................................ 79 ISSN 0428-4836 • USPS 196460 2 First Days • January–February 2020 AFDCS Leadership MEMBERSHIP SERVICES General Counsel Cynthia Scott (2021) Executive Secretary Tris Fall Albert Starkweather (Editor) Doug Kelsey [email protected] James Tatum, Jr. [email protected] Education [email protected] First Days Editor Gary Denis Mark Thompson (2020) Albert W. Starkweather [email protected] [email protected] Advertising Manager Membership Lloyd de Vries (2022) Mark Thompson Foster E. Miller [email protected] Executive Secretary ABOUT THE AFDCS AFDCS Sales Doug Kelsey Foster E. Miller Editor The AFDCS was founded [email protected] Albert W. Starkweather in 1955 and is devoted to EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BOARD OF DIRECTORS the advancement of first [email protected] [email protected] day cover collecting. President Chairman It is a tax exempt Lloyd de Vries Cynthia Scott (2021) organization under [email protected] [email protected] Section 501(c)(3) of the Executive Vice President Members US Internal Revenue Michael L. Litvak Lorraine Bailey (2021) Code. It is APS Unit 33. [email protected] [email protected] The Facebook site is: www. First Vice President Gary Denis (2020) James Hogg [email protected] afdcs.org/facebook. [email protected] Tris Fall (Counsel) Recording Secretary Doug Kelsey (2021) Ralph Nafziger Ron Klimley (2020) Time To Renew [email protected] [email protected] If your journal has a brightly Treasurer Foster Miller (2020) colored label on the front Mark Thompson Ralph Nafziger (2021) cover, your membership has [email protected] Tom Peluso (2022) expired. Renew by mail or Past President [email protected] on the AFDCS website at: Chris L. Lazaroff David Peterman (2022) www.afdcs.org/renewal. [email protected] [email protected] ContributingAFDCS to Leadership First Days his journal depends on its readers suming and often introduces errors. Tfor articles. All submissions will be Contributors should be aware that considered. Quality illustrations are a key the normal deadline for First Days element. Please submit 300 dpi or better submissions is sixty days before the jpg or png file scans on a CD or crisp magazine’s first cover date. If you have color photocopies on a contrasting back- submitted an article and have gotten no ground — usually black — or via email. response, please let me know. Handwritten and printouts of text Send your articles and illustrations to cannot be accepted as typing these into Albert W. Starkweather, 5668 Tranquility a word processor or using optical char- Oaks Drive, Unit 208, Tampa, FL 33624- acter recognition (OCR) is time con- 5849; [email protected]. ■ January–February 2020 • First Days 3 Lloyd A. de Vries: President’s Message What Is the AFDCS Cooking Up Now? as it really been 20 to those board members Hyears since the end of who voted for me for the 20th century? Twenty another term as president. years since Y2K? We can However, I am disap- argue about whether this pointed that only 110 peo- is the start of a new decade ple voted, less than a tenth or the final year of the pre- of our membership. Please vious one, but I am certain make a note to vote in it is the beginning of a new next year’s board election. era for the AFDCS. In Memoriam We enter the new It seems as if there decade in better financial are more deaths from shape than at the begin- de Vries “natural causes” in the ning of the teens. Thanks to winter, especially around Ron Allen, we update the Current Cachet- the end of the calendar year, than at makers Directory more often and made it any other time. Perhaps it is perception, free to nearly everybody. (There is a new perhaps there is a psychological or January 2020 edition.) Todd Ronnei put medical reason. In this and the previ- all our back issues into a searchable elec- ous issue, you will find obituaries for tronic archive. We have more FDC exhib- several people whose names you will itors winning gold medals at top exhibi- recognize.
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