FIRST DAY COVERS FOR SALE 2006

Please add for postage $.50 four each four covers [or fraction thereof]  to US addresses [$1.00 to addresses outside the US.]  For more than 12 covers, please inquire.  Please pay by check or cash.  I do not now have charge card capability - but if business warrants, I will add that in the future.  For those outside the US paying by check - please use a check from a bank from within the US as other checks incur huge charges.  Money orders from places other than the US or Japan cannot be accepted for the same reason. 
Quantities are limited.  Most are limited to 25 - the minimum that would allow me to qualify as a dealer.
Contact information: Phone - 908-241-5091.  Email - postmark1@earthlink.net  (the "1" is a numeral)

Please order from:
General Image, Inc.    10 East Sumner Avenue    Rochelle Park NJ 07204    USA

DOUBLE  COVERS

Double covers have both first day postmarks on the same cover.
Each cover has both the standard four bar steel die postmark AND the pictorial rubber die postmark.

March 1, 2006  Our Wedding. $3.50
Note that the top stamp is the 39 cent stamp and the bottom stamp is the 63 cent stamp.

April 7, 2006  Sugar Ray Robinson  $3.50

April 7, 2006 Benjamin Franklin - four covers.  April 7, 2006.    $14.00

April 21, 2006 Disney  - four covers.  Each has a slightly different cachet    $14.00

May 15, 2006  Katherine Anne Porter   $3.50

May 25, 2006  Amber Alert   $7.00
There are two covers - one for Washington DC and one for Arlington TX

May 26, 2006  Purple Heart   $3.50

May 27, 2006  Wonders of America - 40 covers. 
The cachet for each bears appropriate wording.  $100.00.
A few individual stamps are available in this format.  Each is $7.00.
Only one or two of each were made.
They are: Cactus, Glacier, Estuary, Reef, Lotus, Longest span, Frog, Falcon, Sturgeon, Whale,
Covered bridge.  Check on availability by email before ordering.  

May 28, 2006  Samuel de Champlain
There are two covers, one for Ticonderoga NY and the other Washington DC  $7.00

May 39, 2006  American Diplomats - 6 covers  $18.00
Available singly are: Clifton R. Wharton - African American; Frances E. Willis 0 woman;
Hiram Bingham IV - Judaica related. $5.00 each.

June 19  Judy Garland  $3.50

June 14  Ronald Reagan  Note: The second postmark is NOT a first day,  It is a pictorial cancellation dated June 15 from Tampico IL, his birthplace.  $3.50.
This is also available without the second postmark.  $2.00

July 15, 2006  Baseball Sluggers  Set of four covers  $12.00
Roy Campanella only  $5.00

July 20, 2006  Comics Super Heroes  Set of 10 covers  $50.00
One cover for each hero, four stamps on each cover.
Appropriate wording on each hero/cachet.
Available for Superman only  $7.00
The two Superman stamps (stamps only, NOT covers) $2.00
The two Batman stamps (stamps only, NOT covers) $2.00

August 4, 2006  American Clock  Note: The second postmark is NOT an official first day postmark.  It is a related pictorial cancellation - Same date and same city.  $3.50.

August 7, 2006  American Motorcycles  four covers  $12.00

August 24, 2006  The Quilts of Gee's Bend  five covers  See note below.  $25.00
Note:  These stamps were sold in a booklet format that depicted one of the stamps on its cover.  I used that label as the cachet for two stamps - the one stamp depicted on the cover and another stamp of similar design.  That cover is shown in the upper of the two covers shown above.  The lower of the two covers shown above shows the cachet used for the other four covers (eight stamps.)

October 4, 2006  The Florida Wetlands ten covers  $30.00

SEMI-STAMP COVERS

October 4, 2006 The Florida Wetlands - Semi-stamp covers  11 covers $44.00
The Florida Wetlands souvenir sheet features 21 species of animals and plants.  Only ten of them are featured on stamps.  The other eleven are shown in the selvage about the stamps.  These 11 covers feature the eleven species not on stamps.  I got a first day postmark on the part of the selvage with the featured species in this manner.  I placed that part of the selvage with the featured species together with the postage stamp that appeared nearest to it on the sheet.  Thus there is a stamp AND the piece of the selvage with the featured species.  In the picture above the Egret (in selvage) has received a first day postmark together with the crocodile stamp.  There are 11 different covers in this manner.  You may be more dexterous than I but I found it difficult and quite time consuming to do this   Also, of course, it takes two souvenir sheets to produce one of these sets.

October 5, 2006 Snowflakes  One cover $7.00
This has a bock of the four stamps in the upper right corner getting one of the postmarks and another block of the four stamps in the upper left corner getting the other postmark.

OTHER FIRST DAY COVERS OF INTEREST

January 9, 2006  Pikes Peak postcard.  $1.00
I got these by accident.  I had sent if a few postcards to get a pictorial postmark and the first day postmark was applied, in error.   An "error" first day cover!

January 9, 2006  Benjamin Franklin stamped envelope,  $2.00

January 10, 2006  Favorite Children's Book Animals, random single.  $1.00.
This was made with the selvage from this sheet of stamps.  You can easily make your own.  Just buy a first day cover from the UPS (if you don't already have one handy), buy a sheet of these stamps, cut off the selvage and add it to your first day cover.

January 10, 2006  Favorite Children's Book Animals  Fox-in-sox stamp  $3.00

January 11, 2006  Olympic Winter Games (with pictorial postmark) $2.00
January 11, 2006  Olympic Winter Games  (with four bar postmark) $2.00  (not pictured)

January 25, 2006  Hattie McDonald  (with pictorial postmark)  $2.00
January 25, 2006  Hattie McDonald  (with four bar postmark)   $2.00  (not pictured)

March 16, 2006  Crops of the Americas with first day of sale postmark)  $4.00

March 16, 2006  Crops of the Americas with first day of sale postmark) 
Sunflower stamp only   $2.00

Benjamin Franklin combo covers.  Each of these four covers is on a Benjamin Franklin stamped envelope.  Each features one of the Franklin stamps with a Benjamin Franklin show postmark.  The four show cancels used are illustrated above.  There are four different show postmarks used with the four different Franklin stamps.  Set of four covers: $12.00