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Are you a ‘history buff’ or just have a passing interest in social history? Then how about taking a look a the world of the First Day Cover. STAMPS! we hear some people cry – ‘I’m NOT a stamp collector’. We would ask you to take another look.  First Day Covers or FDCs as they are known in the trade are jammed pack full of stories to tell – couple this with some beautiful photography and miniture works or art and we bet you will get hooked. Take the FDC in this blog – it depicts real photos from the Crimean War – produced by the  Royal Mail FDC /fdi service in 2004.

4aplacetobuy have started to catalogue some of their thousands of FDCs and are putting some up for sale on their website.  Here’s a taster below. CLICK HERE to go directly to the first day covers decades listing pages on the site, browse the fab photos and take a walk down memory lane.

1986-07-22 Royal Wedding Sothebys Silk FDC ref1276
1986-07-22 Royal Wedding Sothebys Silk FDC ref1277
1986-07-15 Sports Sothebys Silk Issue FDC ref1278
1984-09-25 British Council Sothebys Silk FDC ref1281
1985-11-19 Christmas Sothebys Silk No.17 FDC ref1283
1986-11-18 Christmas Sothebys Silk No.28  FDC ref1285
1985-07-30 350 Years of the Royal Mail Silk Issue FDC r
1985-10-08 British Film Year Sothebys Silk FDC No.16 re
1986-11-18 Christmas Sothebys Silk No.27  FDC ref1290
1985-06-18 Safety at Sea Silk Issue Sothebys No.13 FDC
1985-05-14 Composers Sothebys Silk No.12 FDC ref1296
1986-08-19 Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference Silk r
1985-05-14 Composers FDC Silk Issue Sothebys No.12 ref1
1988-05-10 Transport & Communication Silk No.40 FDC ref
1988-03-22 Sport FDC Sothebys Silk Issue No.39 ref1300
1988-03-01 Welsh Bible No.38 Silk Issue Sothebys FDC re
1988-06-21 Australian Bicentenary silk issue No.41 FDC
1988-07-19 Spanish Armada 1588 Sothebys Silk no42 FDC r
1987-01-20 Flower FDC No.29 Silk Issue Sothebys ref1305
1987-03-24 Sir Isaac Newton Sothebys No.30 Silk FDC ref
1987-05-12 British Architects Sothebys Silk No.31 FDC r
1987-09-08 Queen Victoria Sothebys Silk No.34 FDC ref13
1989 Definitive Issue 1st Class PPS Silk FDC Windsor re
1989 Definitive Issue 10x 2nd Class PPS Silk FDC Windso
1982-04-28 British Theatre PPS Silk No.3 FDC ref1319
1983-05-25 Engineering Achievements Silk No.3 FDC ref13
1983-03-09 Commonwealth Day No.2 Silk Issue FDC ref1321
1982-11-17 Christmas No.8 Silk Issue PPS FDC ref1325
1983-03-09 Commonwealth Day No.2 Silk Issue PPS FDC ref
1983-07-06 British Army No4 Silk Alvis FDC bfpo pm ref1
1983-05-25 Engineering Achievements Silk No3 shs FDC re
1983-08-24 British Gardens Silk Issue No5 PPS FDC ref13
1982-10-13 British Motor Cars Silk Issue No7 FDC ref133
1982-06-16 Maritime Heritage Hermes No.4 Silk Issue FDC
1983-08-24 British Gardens Sothebys No.5 Silk Issue FDC
1984-04-10 Urban Renewal No.3 Sothebys Silk Issue FDC r
1984-05-15 Europa FDC No.4 Silk Issue Sothebys pps ref1
1984-05-15 Europa FDC No.4 Silk Issue Sothebys ref1354
1984-06-05 London Economic Summit No.5 Silk FDC ref1355
1984-06-05 London Economic Summit No.5 Silk FDC ref1356
1978 Christmas Mint Stamps Presentation Pack No.104
1992 Civil War England Mint Stamps Presentation Pack No
1989 Food & Farming Mint Stamps Presentation Pack No.19
1997 Post Offices Mint Stamps Presentation Pack No. 279
1992 Accession 40th Anniversary Presentation Pack No.22
2003-04-29 Extreme Endeavors PM Plymouth FDC ref1473
2002-04-25 Queen Mother in memoriam FDI pm SW1 ref1479
2002-10-08 Pillar to Post pm Bishops Caundle FDC ref148
2000-01-18 Above & Beyond Millennium FDC ref1481
2004-04-06 Entente Cordiale First Day Cover ref1607
2006-10-03 Sounds of Britain FDC postmarked Rock ref160
2003-07-15 Scotland Royal Mail FDC Scotland the Brave P
2004-10-12 Crimean War Royal Mail FDC fdi London SW3 re
2002-05-02 Airliners First Day Cover Heathrow Airport P

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