U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog:
Cachetmaker: "FDI" General Purpose Cachets

(last updated .12-03-2025)

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      This page displays First Day Covers with General Purpose (GP) cachets created by known and unknown Cachetmakers that include the words:
"First Day Issue" (FDI).

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      U.S. Scott #nnn = U.S. Scott Catalog number.
      mm-dd-yyyy = First Day of Issue

      Other General Purpose (GP) cachet pages:
Eagles -- 1DC and 1DI -- FDC -- FDI (this page) -- FDOI
Identifier of all the GP's above on one page
General Purpose "Border" Cachets
      Note that each General Purpose Cachet above has been assigned its own unique "GP#" Catalog Number.
Ioor General Purpose (GP) "Border" Cachets
Ioor General Purpose (GP) Cachets

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1. #FDI-1a -- "First Day Issue" General Purpose -- GP#FDI-1a -- Albert E. Gorham (Elliot)
         #643, 8-03-1927
   
2. #FDI-1b -- "First Day Issue" General Purpose -- GP#FDI-1b -- Albert E. Gorham (Elliot)
         #644, 8-03-1927
   
3. #FDI-1c -- "First Day Issue" General Purpose -- GP#FDI-1c -- Albert E. Gorham (Elliot)
         #644, 8-03-1927
   

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4. #FDI-2a -- "First Day Issue" General Purpose -- GP#FDI-2a -- unknown
         #728, 5-25-1933 -- #835, 6-21-1938
         Planty: #682-33, III:11-12 -- #798-GP16, Blue, 9-17-1937, XII:109 -- #683-29, III:21
   
5. #FDI-2b -- "First Day Issue" General Purpose -- GP#FDI-2b -- unknown
         #703, 10-19-1931 -- #705, 1-01-1932
   

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6. #FDI-3 -- "First Day Issue" General Purpose -- GP#FDI-3 -- Henry Grimsland
         #752-771-1, VII:69 (Grimsland) -- #785-794-GP11, 12-15-1936 and others, XI:87 -- #799-802-GP18, 12-15-1937, XIII:NIP
   

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7. #FDI-4 -- "First Day Issue" General Purpose -- GP#FDI-4 -- unknown
         #C12, 2-10-1930
   

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8. #FDI-5 -- "First Day Issue" General Purpose -- GP#FDI-5 -- John Favour
         #728-GP4, 5-25-1933 (NIP)
   

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