DESCRIPTION OF OFFERED ITEM. Nineteen (19) Official USPOD office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General FDC subscription service announcement 3 x 5 penalty cards addressed to the cachet artist Ralph Dyer himself, some with notes written by himself in pencil. These cards announce the date and city of FDC new stamp servicing and describe the process to obtain covers. The are quite desirable for exhibition as the franking on the FDC will match what is described on the cards. Ralph Dyer’s estate liquidation of his personal collection, all unique items from the cachet artist’s personal collection. Forty-One (41) new stamps from 1939 – 1942 are covered as the National Defense set of three appears on one card and Famous Americans cards have five stamps each. You can clearly see his original Tom Hunter Road Fort Lee NJ address being forwarded to Central Ave Leonia, NJ. They would complement these cards nicely. OF INTEREST TO THE EXHIBITOR OR SPECIALIST. This is your chance to bring your collection up to the next level by including unique items clearly tied by name and address to well known philatelic artist. Outshine the competition at exhibition, win that ribbon with these extra little pluses that will get you noticed by the knowledgeable philatelist. Most of the pre-war statehood anniversary issues, NY world’s fair, San Francisco Golden gate expo, and 5 of 7 Famous Americans are in here, which are popular exhibition topics. Also highly applicable to early WWII 1939-42. The first eight (8) cards are quite unusual in that there is new address forwarding and they are franked three times each. Eight (8) with boot cancels. The 41 stamps covered by these 19 penalty cards personally addressed to Ralph Dyer. #852 Golden gate exposition. #853 NY Worlds Fair. #857 300th anniversary of printing. #859-63 Famous Americans Authors series. #864-68 Famous Americans Poets series. #869-73 Famous Americans Educators series. #864-88 Famous Americans Artists series. #889-93 Famous Americans Inventors series. #899, #900, & #901 National defense set of three stamps. #902 75th anniversary of the Emancipation proclamation (13th amendment). #905 Win the War (the only card not pictured). ABOUT USPOD PRESS RELEASE “ONION SKINS” AND SUBSCRIPTION PENALTY CARDS. A Popular item for exhibition as the Franking on the corresponding FDC’s corresponds to the servicing instructions on these announcements. Cachet artists used the verbose descriptions of the new stamps to design their artwork. Publishers and cover services used the first day service instructions to fulfill the client responsibilities. Newspapers and magazines based their articles on the rich details provided about the theme of the stamps and backstory behind their development. The 3 x 5 penalty cards were somewhat different. The bulk ordering card presented here is somewhat different than the rest of the series and is classified as a special card in the AFDCS catalog (below) Their focus was on servicing instructions for obtaining first day covers and provided only a brief description of the stamps themselves. The Penalty Card presented here is actually instructions for ordering Army Navy stamps in bulk and announces their closing date of sale in preparation for the new Presidential general issue. The press releases were printed by the USPOD for a longer time frame, late 1920’s through the 1950’s. The penalty cards were a subscription service that started with the Presidential general issue and ended in the mid 1940’s just after the war. The penalty cards are interesting on their mailing side as they tended to receive WWII era fancy cancels and often were addressed to noted figures in Philately. They were directly mailed by the USPOD office of the Third assistant Postmaster General. The American First Day Cover Society AFDCS has a checklist style catalog of these cards. Several of the cards such as this one were special announcements not tied to one particular stamp. These press sheets were issued in quantities ranging from 30,000 at the beginning of the series to 45,000 for the final five cent issues as clearly documented on their bottom lines of text. When you examine the number of first day covers serviced in the (pictured) 2017 Scott catalog page, you will see that there were well over ten times as many covers serviced than there were announcement sheets printed, making these press releases significantly more scarce then the covers themselves. Because these sheets served a commercial purpose, not many were retained after the FDC cover servicing frenzy for any given new stamp. Moderate to heavy natural toning typical of war era penalty cards. Covers are known to exist addressed exactly as these. Ralph Dyer received himself USPOD new stamp announcement 3×5 cards at these same New Jersey addresses. I have one of his plate blocks and three total covers addressed to Dyer by Dyer listed for sale on eBbay now. It will not be impossible to extend this set by finding other Dyer personally addressed covers or USPOD postal history out there if you keep your eyes open. A few months before he passed Dyer was in poor health residing in Arizona. He had liquidated most of his higher end original artworks, the sketches and oil painting, by this stage in order to meet day to day living expenses. ASDA cover vendor Lee Kauffman DBA Fonda Covers on the Los Angeles Orange County California stamp show circuit visited Dyer and spent two days going through his remaining personal collection of many thousands of covers and wrote him a five figure check, roughly five times what Dyer originally asked to get him out of the house quickly. Dyer was on oxygen and told Lee “Two bucks a cover” but Lee would have none of that. POSTAL HISTORY NOTES and the ARTCRAFT BACKSTORY. Nardone, and John Coulthard. What follows is courtesy of my mentor Charles Merrill, Esq. WSE was first operated from Leo Augusts residence at 510 So. Across the street from the now defunct L. Bamberger Sons Dept Store part of R. Macy, which ran an extensive philatelics department as late as the 1960s. The August Brothers also owned and operated a printing company called Washington Press, a few blocks away at 43 William St. The First WSE Cachet on an FDC was Leo Augusts #702-2, 2c Red Cross, 5/21/31, but an earlier non-FDC WSE Cachet exists for #654, 2c Electric Light, issued 6/5/29. First Cachets Revealed, 2006, p. Nardone (1937), and John W. Ralph Dyer was located at 716-720 St. Annes Ave, Bronx, NY in 1928, but by 1933 had moved to 338 Tom Hunter Rd. Fort Lee, Bergen County, NJ. Ralph Dyers FDC career was significantly influenced by Morris C. Rothblum and Harry Citret all of them active in the Ridgefield Park NJ Stamp Club during the 1920s. Citret talked Dyer into adding printed Cachets to some of Citrets uncacheted FDCs. When Dyer heard that Rothblum was also printing Cachets for his own FDC collection, Dyer and Rothblum began exchanging Cachet designs and supplying them to Citret and other members of the Ridgefield Park Stamp Club. Dyer and Rothblum continued to inspire each other throughout the 1930s as they both grew into talented and sophisticated Cachet-makers. Rothblums cachets are scarcer and less well known than Dyers because Rothblum produced cachets only as a sidelight, while Dyer became a driving force for Leo Augusts WSE. The First Dyer Cachet was #646-19b, 2c Valley Forge, issued 10/20/28. First Cachets Revealed, 2006; Mellone, Planty Vol. As contract artist for WSE, one of Dyers most beautiful sets is #740/749 National Parks Series of 1934, Mellone & Newton, 1979, p. 19; Mellone, Planty Vol. Subsequent to the #740/749 Set, Ralph Dyer produced many Cachets individually, but the earliest I have seen signed by both WSE and Dyer is the #776-10, 3c Texas issued 3/2/36. The Last Dyer Cachet I have seen is a WSE/Dyer cachet, #837-8, 3c Northwest Territory, issued 7/15/38. XV, 2004, p 44. I have seen an unlisted #1264 5c New Jersey Cachet (6/15/64), a Maul Hand-Painted Cachet, addressed to Ralph Dyer at 1612 Anderson Ave. Fort Lee NJ Item #741, John F. The earliest WSE Cachet by Artist W. Nardone I have seen is four different varieties of #798-36 3c Constitution Adoption 7/17/37, which is my candidate for the first Nardone Cachet for WSE. I have not seen a later Cachet by Nardone. On 4/1/39 in Newark, Leo and Sam Augusts Washington Press launched the Artcraft Cachet brand for the #853-4 3c Worlds Fair issue. This engraved-from-photo cachet was immediately successful, and it sharply reduced WSEs need for expensive custom art work from Ralph Dyer and other contract arts. I know of no later WSE/Dyer collaboration after the #837-8 issued 7/15/38, mentioned above. Artcraft engraved cachets are still being produced by Washington Press, which moved within Essex County, from Newark to the suburbs of Maplewood in the 1960s, and to 2 Vreeland Rd. Heins, Clark, Artists of the Beautiful Morris Rothblum, First Days Vol. 887-889 (AFDCS Oct 1, 1985). Mellones Specialized Cachet Catalog of First Day Covers of the 1940s, 2d Edition 1984, 2d Printing 1999, Updated by 2006 Catalogue Pricing Guidelines, Stewartsville, NJ: FDC Publishing Co. 2006 (herein Mellone, FDCs of the 1940s, 2006). Mellones Planty Photo Encyclopedia of Cacheted First Day Covers, Vol. Stewartsville, NJ: FDC Publishing Co. 1998 herein Mellone, Planty Vol. XVIII 1939 #857-858, Stewartsville, NJ: FDC Publishing Co. 2006 herein Mellone, Planty Vol. The Cachet Identifier of US Cacheted First Day Covers, 2d Edition, 2d Printing, Stewartsville, NJ: FDC Publishing Co. 2006 herein Monty et al. First Cachets Revealed, 2006. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE. Must be able to receive signature confirmation. Willing to post additional scans upon request. Will extend professional certification courtesy to fellow APS members, We reserve the right to pull item without prior notice, Look forward to meeting at the Southern California weekend stamps shows if you want to see it in person. The item “Cachet artist Ralph Dyer’s estate personal set of 19 USPOD announcement cards” is in sale since Tuesday, July 18, 2017. This item is in the category “Stamps\United States\Covers\FDCs (pre-1951)\1931-40″. The seller is “1312114” and is located in Sylmar, California. 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• Topic: Heroes of the Army
• Cancellation Type: First Day of Issue
• Quality: Used