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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 3626034, member: 59677&quot;]The Scott catalog identifies the STAMP</p><p><br /></p><p>The cover art is usually done by a 3rd party... they design and print it, buy the stamps and have them canceled on the First Day of Issue. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are &quot;stamps&quot; that include an entire sheet of paper that can be folded up to be mailed... an FDC of that wouldn&#039;t have 3rd party art.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back it the day there were two big US companies, Fleetwood and ArtCraft. You can google those names. Franklin Mint and Readers Digest entered the market in the 1970s with low quality high priced items for the casual collector (NIFC anyone)?</p><p><br /></p><p>IIRC, the other side of the death of the FDC market coin started when it was found out that somebody was skipping the step of postal cancellation... they were buying the stamps in bulk ahead of the official release, affixing them to envelopes and canceling them themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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