First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Reid

Title

First Day Cover - United States - 1965 - Reid

Type

First Day Cover

Coverage

United States

Date Issued

1965-07-17

Description

This first day cover was issued by Clarence E. Reid and features a textual cachet naming Douglas Gorsline, the designer of the United States Dante postage stamp of 1965. The "No. 2717" next to Reid's name was his membership number for the American First Day Cover Society; the number appears on numerous other Reid first day covers. Reid is known usually to have made fewer than 20 of each FDC that he issued.

Extent

92 × 166 mm

Contributor

Clarence E. Reid

Language

English