Stamp Collecting Rec 3i

Show an example of a first day cover:

My Grandmother started me in stamp collecting when I was very young (pre-cub scouts).  One of my favorite additions to my collection was the First Day Covers commemorating Norman Rockwell in 1979.  This collection contains 19 of Norman Rockwell's scouting works of art.  You can see by the postmark that this collection came from Monrovia-Liberia (West Africa).

A First Day of Issue Cover or First Day Cover is a postage stamp on a cover, postal card or stamped envelope franked on the first day the issue is authorized for use[1] within the country or territory of the stamp-issuing authority. Sometimes the issue is made from a temporary or permanent foreign or overseas office. There will usually be a first day of issue postmark, frequently a pictorial cancellation, indicating the city and date where the item was first issued, and "first day of issue" is often used to refer to this postmark. Depending on the policy of the nation issuing the stamp, official first day postmarks may sometimes be applied to covers weeks or months after the date indicated.