AFDCS Zoom Program: Unusual FDCs
Free Online Presentation October 16
A first day cover may be just a stamp and postmark on an envelope, with maybe a design on the envelope, but FDCs can be so much more. Lloyd de Vries will present some of those possibilities live on Zoom on Sunday, October 16, at 8:00 pm EDT, in a program 
titled “Weird Stuff FDCs.” It will be offered afterward on the American First Day Cover Society’s YouTube Channel.
De Vries recently presented some of his collection in an exhibit at the Great American Stamp Show 2022, where it won a large silver medal. It includes FDCs with moving parts, materials seldom used in FDCs, and unusual artistic techniques. Shown here is a “cover-cover.”
The president of the AFDCS, de Vries writes the first day cover column for Linn’s Stamp News and manages The Virtual Stamp Club, a philatelic news and information website. Before retirement, he was a writer-producer for network radio, television and website news operations: ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR. He also hosted and produced a nationally-syndicated philatelic radio feature for CBS News from 1997 to 2017.
The Zoom address for “Weird Stuff First Day Covers” is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88594826222?pwd=RVQ5SEFTeDlwODJ6ei9zMkFHdkJQQT09 or the meeting ID 885 9482 6222 with a passcode of 724390.
Membership in the AFDCS is not required to attend the seminar, but with memberships starting at $24 for Internet-only access or $35 with the printed magazine, it is very affordable and a good asset for any first day cover collector, anywhere in the world.
The AFDCS publishes handbooks, catalogues, directories and a bimonthly award-winning journal, First Days. The society also advocates for first day cover collecting and exhibiting, and is a co-host of Great American Stamp Show, which next will be held August 25-28, 2022, in Sacramento, Calif.
For more information on the AFDCS, visit its website www.afdcs.org, email afdcs@afdcs.org or write to the society at Post Office Box 246, Colonial Beach, VA 22443-0246.
