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Originally Posted by JT
Food for thought.
Many first day covers are sold before the actual event or whatever these are commemorating, thus this FDC could have been issued before Frye died.
Stamps are also sold before the first "Official" issue.
Cancellations can be added weeks, months, or a good amount of time after the event by the USPS.
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Me being completely ignorant of FDC's and how they are/were issued and distributed, what kind of range are we talking here? I could see them being printed up weeks or even months before the "First Day of Issue" event, especially "back in the day" when distribution of the physical envelopes would have taken longer, but surely the lapse between printing and cancellation wouldn't have been more than a couple of months? Or is there something that I'm overlooking in the process? I'm not trying to cast judgement on either side of the argument, but just looking for a typical range for future reference.