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As kids, most of us were probably into Philately to a smaller or larger extent. I "collected" postage stamps without a lot of purpose, just filling pages in stamp albums, without any idea of the value that could be involved. That is until high school when a mate, wiser than me, enlighted me to other aspects of philately. This included First Day Covers and I collected those. Probably still have some stashed away in the archives. But, just recently my son-in-law gave me a pair of Fist Day Covers which he'd picked up in the '90's, both automotive with one a Packard, see pic's. These won't arouse any underlying latent interest but will become another piece of my diverse Automobilia "collection", which mainly comprises rusty nuts and bolts!

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Perhaps 20 years ago (back when 1st class postage was 25 cents) the U.S. Post Office issued a very elegant block of 4 1st class commemorative stamps, each with a different Classic car, one was a Packard, I forget the others. I used most of mine for postage and not sure I saved any but if I did I'll scan later. But almost certainly someone else here has them and has saved 1 of each.

Interesting the Dusenberg first day cover has a Detroit stamp and not one from Auburn.

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Never did find my full set of unused Classic Car stamps the U.S.P.O. issued, but I did come across something I saved which shows 3 of the 4.

I don't recall what club or organization did it but the Packard stamp image was used to produce a very nice gold-colored lapel pin.

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"I don't recall what club or organization did it but the Packard stamp image was used to produce a very nice gold-colored lapel pin"

Dave,

Can't believe it's co-incidence, or maybe it's deja-vu all over again? But just came across a similar badge!

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From my Packard inheritance thread. Looks to be 5 not 4

https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/uploads/newbb/491_55c0d5cbe34b5.jpg

Worth its weight in gold.


source: eBay, item number: 321739159040

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And on Hemmings, this article.