United States
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First Day Cover for
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First day of issue: October 20, 2017
Width: 162 mm
Height: 92 mm
Cachet maker: Bella Cachets
Location: Box 2003
The artist of this FDC, bella cachets, has given me permission to use this story about the creation of this FDC. The artist was working on a cachet for the 1934 NHL team, the St. Louis Eagles. As the work progressed she was slowly starting to have second thoughts. She asked her family what they thought about her "eagle" and one member of the household said "Eagle? It looks more like a vulture." She took a closer look and decided that it indeed looked more like a vulture than an eagle. So, she enhanced the "vultureness" of the drawing and since it was already on the stamped and canceled cover she would see if I was interested in it. Of course I was interested. There's a hockey stick on the cover. To see what the St. Louis Eagle's cachet looks like take a look at usa-20171020-fk-072.
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
United States of America (1847-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 248,709,873 (1990). Republic occupying the central portion of North America, along with Alaska, Hawaii and a large number of island possessions in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.