Cachet

USPOD cover with rubber-stamp cachets and backstamps flown northbound by Charles Lindbergh

between St. Louis and Chicago on February 20, 1928, and southbound on February 21.

George W. Linn's cachet on Harding Memorial issue

In

event covers

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The first cacheted FDC (first day cover) was produced by prominent philatelist and cachet maker George Ward Linn in 1923, for the Warren G. Harding memorial stamp issue.

Cachet-making is considered an art form, and cachets may be produced by using any number of methods, including drawing or painting directly onto the envelope, serigraphy, block printing, lithography, engraving, laser printing, attachment of photographs or other paper memorabilia, etc. Frequently, flight cachets (which have also been used in space and on the moon) are rubber-stamped.

The largest and best-known cachet-making companies, which typically produce thousands or tens of thousands of printed cachets for U.S. stamp issues, are ArtCraft (1939–2015),^[2] Artmaster, Fleetwood, House of Farnam, and Colorano.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Russell Bennett; James Watson (1978). Philatelic Terms Illustrated. London: Stanley Gibbons Publications.
^ Lloyd De Vries (2016-02-13). "Demise of ArtCraft first-day covers reflected various market challenges". Linns Stamp News. Retrieved 2019-01-30.

[Bennett1978-1] Russell Bennett; James Watson (1978). Philatelic Terms Illustrated. London: Stanley Gibbons Publications.

[DeVries2016-2] Lloyd De Vries (2016-02-13). "Demise of ArtCraft first-day covers reflected various market challenges". Linns Stamp News. Retrieved 2019-01-30.

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