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  • Clearance!
    We made too many, or these issues didn't sell as well as we expected. Here's a chance to pick up some real bargains; some are priced below cost.

  • No, there's still no charge for postage and handling within the U.S. and Canada, just $3 elsewhere.

  • No, you don't have to take 3 or 6 or 20 of the same issue, but you can get more than one of an issue if you want.

  • Issues offered may change from time to time.

  • No other discounts, include the new-AFDCS member offer, apply.

    Pictures and details about the issues available are below the list of issues.

    You don't have to use PayPal or PayDirect, although both accept credit cards. Here's how it works. First, pick the quantity and price you want. (Just write it down somewhere if you're not using PayPal or PayDirect):

    3 for $4

    6 for $7.50

    20 for $20

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    Sc. 2110
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    Jerome Kern
    Abigail Adams
    Constitution booklet
    Signing Constitution
    Locomotives booklet
    5¢ Circus Wagon coil
    Songwriters
    Big Bandleaders
    The Dorseys
    Benny Goodman
    Bugs Bunny
    Humphrey Bogart
    Yellow Rose coil
    Century: Immigrants
    Century: Construction Toys
    Tweety & Sylvester
    Century: Radio
    Century: Empire State Building
    Victorian Love
    Century: Television
    Daffy Duck
    Coverlet Eagle

    Now click here and send us e-mail telling us which issues you want. (We'll assume one of each unless otherwise specified.)

    Here are details and pictures:

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    Dgn 7: Sc. 2110 Jerome Kern — 5"x7" black-on-yellow Dragon Card, portrait of the composer, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration...regularly $2.50

    Dgn 8: Sc. 2146 Abigail Adams — 5"x7" black-on-grey card with a printed drawing of her as First Lady (at an older age than on the stamp) — larger illustration...regularly $2.50

    Dgn 16: Sc. 2359a Constitution booklet — 5"x7" card, brown on buff, Bicentennial logo, full pane, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration...regularly $3.00

    Dgn 17: Sc. 2360 Signing Constitution — 5"x7" brown on buff card showing Preamble, Capitol Dome; First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration...regularly $2.50

    Dgn 20: Sc. 2366a Locomotives booklet — 5"x7" red-on-buff Dragon Card, showing the John Bull locomotive, First Day of Issue hand cancel. One of the few FDCs for this issue where the full pane is affixed rightside-up! — larger illustration...regularly $3.00


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    Dgn 30: Sc. 2452 5¢ Circus Wagon coil — strip of 3 on a FDC-size maroon-on-gray Dragon Card, showing the Asia Tableau Wagon, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration...regularly $2.50

    Dgn 44: Sc. 3100a Songwriters — 5"x7" blue-on-cream Dragon Card; 60 produced — larger illustration...regularly $3.50

    Dgn 45: Sc. 3096a Big Bandleaders — block of four on a 5"x7" blue-on-cream Dragon Card, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration...regularly $3.50

    Dgn 46b: Sc. 3097 The Dorseys — single from the Big Bandleaders block on a FDC-size navy-on-cream Dragon Card — larger illustration...regularly $3.00

    Dgn 46c: Sc. 3098 Benny Goodman — single from the Big Bandleaders block on a FDC-size navy-on-cream Dragon Card — larger illustration...regularly $3.00


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    Dgn 51: Sc. 3137 Bugs Bunny — 5"x7" black-on-gray Dragon Card, official Loony Tunes licensed illustration, with heading "STAMPS're up, Doc." — larger illustration...regularly $3.00

    Dgn 52: Sc. 3152 Humphrey Bogart — black-on-blue 5"x7" Dragon Card, photo of Bogart, short text, licensed, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration...regularly $3.00

    Dgn 53: Sc. 3054 Yellow Rose coil — black-on-yellow 5"x7" card, AMERICOVER '97 show cancel with rose in it. (The stamp was issued at the show.) — larger illustration...regularly $2.50

    Dgn 58: Sc. 3182i Immigrants — single from the Celebrate the Century 1900s sheet on a 5"x7" sepia on cream card, showing a drawing of immigrants arriving in the U.S., probably Ellis Island. The text describes how immigrants from different parts of Europe came through Ellis Island to produce…me! (Probably why it doesn't sell.) — larger illustration...regularly $3.00

    Dgn 62: Sc. 3183n Construction Toys — single from the Celebrate the Century 1910s sheet on a 5"x7" sepia-on-cream Dragon Card, showing a photo of a boy playing with an Erector Set and drawings of Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys — larger illustration...regularly $3.00


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    Dgn 65: Sc. 3204 Tweety & Sylvester — 5"x7" black on "canary yellow" card, official illustration, with original caption. First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration...regularly $3.00

    Dgn 68: Sc. 3184i Radio — single from the Celebrate the Century 1920s sheet on a black-on-cream 5"x7" Dragon Card, man singing into 1920s microphone, early "Cathedral" radio, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration...regularly $3.00

    Dgn 71: Sc. 3185b Empire State Building — single from the Celebrate the Century 1930s sheet on a black-on-cream 5"x7" Dragon Card, drawing of NYC skyline, ESB towering over all — larger illustration...regularly $3.00

    Dgn 76: Sc. 3274-5 Victorian Love — black-on-hot pink 5"x7" Dragon Card, Victorian-era woodcut of angels and old-fashioned telephone on a candy box; both denominations, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration...regularly $3.50


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    Dgn 79: Sc. 3186f Television — single from the Celebrate the Century 1940s sheet on a black-on-cream 5"x7" Dragon Card, with a printed photo of a couple watching 1940s (tiny screen) television — larger illustration...regularly $3.00

    Dgn 82: Sc. 3306 Daffy Duck — black-on-lime green 5"x7" Dragon Card, text and blank box instead of illustration. Each comes with a free Daffy Duck sticker that some may wish to put in the box, completing the cachet, but not us! Oh, no, that would be a violation of copyright. — larger illustration...regularly $2.50

    Dgn 134: Sc. 3646 Coverlet Eagle — 5"x7" Dragon Card with color photo of patriotic eagle quilt, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration...regularly $3.00


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