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U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog:
Cachetmaker: Joe Spurgeon

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by Douglas H. Henkle, AFDCS LM #137, henkle@pobox.com

(last updated .05-25-2025)

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This page displays Spurgeon's F.D.C's First Day Cover (FDC) cachets created during 1973 - 1979 by Joe Spurgeon, (Joseph Z.) (1935-1995) of Petoskey, MI and Charlevoix, MI. Except as noted by "{A}" (my personal collection), all other displayed covers were found on the Web. This page also displays the only two Petoskey Artist Cachets I know about (#1759 and #1770) which were produced by Joe Spurgeon.

Wanted: a 300 bpi / 600 pixel wide ((or greater) .jpg scan of any unlisted cachet (ALSO any cachet marked ***)
Email it to: henkle@pobox.com
Subject for this page: Doug Henkle unlisted Joe Spurgeon cachet
(an email with any other subject or with any other graphical format will be ignored IF it has an attachment)

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

U.S. Scott #1193 -- 2-20-1962 -- Joe Spurgeon Paste-on Black & red (add-on), listed at [#161, 27(6), 8-15-1982, p. 914] #3 -- scan wanted ***
U.S. Scott #1503 -- 8-27-1973 -- Joe Spurgeon #1 First Cachet --- (eBay)
U.S. Scott #1529 -- 5-14-1974 -- Joe Spurgeon #2 "Black % White" -- scan wanted ***
Listed as an auction lot on page 49 of the Jan/Feb 1975 issue [#114], and by Monte Eiserman on page 64 of the same issue.
U.S. Scott #? -- yy? -- Joe Spurgeon #3 -- scan wanted ***
U.S. Scott #1569-1570 -- 7-15-1975 -- Joe Spurgeon #4a --- (eBay)
U.S. Scott #1569-1570 -- 7-15-1975 -- Joe Spurgeon #4b --- (eBay)
U.S. Scott #1579-1580 -- 10-14-1975 -- Joe Spurgeon #5 --- {A}
Gift from Joe Spurgeon, received 12-24-1975
U.S. Scott #? -- yy? -- Joe Spurgeon #6 SASE --- {A} -- FDC scan wanted ***
U.S. Scott #? -- yy? -- Joe Spurgeon #7 SAE --- {A} -- FDC scan wanted ***
U.S. Scott #1710 -- 5-20-1977 -- Joe Spurgeon #8 -- scan wanted ***
[#143, 24(6), 11-12/1979, p. 84] auction lot
U.S. Scott #1727 -- 10-06-1977 -- Joe Spurgeon #9 --- (eBay)
U.S. Scott #? -- yy? -- Joe Spurgeon #10 -- scan wanted ***
U.S. Scott #1759 -- 7-20-1978 -- Joe Spurgeon #11 --- (eBay)
U.S. Scott #1759-PAC -- 7-20-1978 -- Petoskey Artist Cachets #1 (PAC) -- First Cachet, produced by Joe Spurgeon --- (eBay) / (eBay)
the second cover is signed by the artist, Lou Holowasko
U.S. Scott #1770-PAC -- 1-12-1979 -- Petoskey Artist Cachets #2 (PAC), produced by Joe Spurgeon -- scan wanted ***
U.S. Scott #1789 -- 9-23-1979 -- Joe Spurgeon #12 --- (eBay)
U.S. Scott #1801 -- 11-04-1979 -- Joe Spurgeon #13 -- scan wanted ***
Announced in his [#142, 24(5), 9-10/1979, p. 49] ad.
U.S. Scott #1801 -- 11-04-1979 -- Petoskey Artist Cachets #3 (PAC), produced by Joe Spurgeon --- (eBay)
U.S. Scott #? -- yy? -- Joe Spurgeon #14 or higher -- scan wanted ***

The following items were saved in one of my 220 1973-1995 correspondence folders. Joe and I corresponded between 1975 and 1980. He was an FDC Dealer, a Cachetmaker, and a collector. He also collected the 1937 #799-802 Territorials. I bought a lot of covers from him and we traded many others to expand our collections. His 1973 Cover Exchange ad for LBJ Cachets Wanted at [#108, 19(1), 1-2/1974, p. 64] issue may have been the reason behind his choosing #1503 -- 8-27-1973 for his First Cachet. He also specialized in cachets for Sky Lab, Apollo-Soyuz, and all 1948 issues. A 1977 story, Believe It or Not!, story appeared at [#126, 22(1), 1-2/1977, p. 70] about a store consignment of his FDCs and some clueless burglars.

#SASE -- Cacheted blank covers by Joe Spurgeon --- {A}
One SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) and two SAE (self-addressed envelopes) Joe sometimes sent to his customers for approval payments or other correspondence. I kept all he sent.
#XMAS -- Christmas Greetings sent to customers by Joe Spurgeon (received 12-24-1977) --- {A}
U.S. Scott # -- Joe Spurgeon's letterhead on his 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" note paper (received 8-06-1980) --- {A}
#Insert -- Joe Spurgeon's printed heavy weight paper insert to protect covers he mailed to customers. Folded in half, it was 3-7/8" x 9-1/8" to fit inside a #10 envelope. --- {A}
#Catalogs -- Joe Spurgeon sent out periodic Auction Catalogs and Price Lists. If I ever find any of them I will scan them and add them here.
#Homes -- A Google map showing the two places that I know about where Joe Spurgeon lived, in Charlevoix and Petoskey, Michigan. His AFDCS (#10318) reinstatement listing in the Nov/Dec 1981 issue was the first use I had seen of his move to Charlevoix. He was manager of the Charlevoix Rainbow Shoppe from the early 1980s until he passed away on 10-24-1995 at age 60.
#Ads -- Joe Spurgeon's advertisements in First Days
[#128, 22(3), 5-6/1977, p. 11] / [#134, 23(3), 5-6/1978, p. 65] / [#139, 24(2), 3-4/1979, p. 50] / [#142, 24(5), 9-10/1979, p. 49] / [#143, 24(6), 11-12/1979, p. 56] / [#147, 25(4), 7-8/1980, p. 509] / [#159, 27(4), 5-15-1982, p. 458], some ads appeared multiple times

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U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog:Cachetmaker: Joe Spurgeon

U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog:
Cachetmaker: Joe Spurgeon