Club Covers
The club has the following event
and first day covers for sale. Many of our covers are full-color and feature
professionally printed cachets.
Click
here for a
Word document order form that includes payment instructions. A web page
version of the form can be found
here.
For more information on any of
these covers, or help with ordering, please contact
covers@syracusestampclub.org.
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Honoring American Scientists Covers
March 6, 2008
Theses four first day covers honor four
American scientists: Physicist John Bardeen, Biochemist Gerty Theresa
Cori, Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, and Chemist Linus Carl Pauling.
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SYRAPEX '07 Show Cover
Honoring Louis C. Tiffany
November 10 and 11, 2007
This beautiful event cover honors Louis C. Tiffany
and is made in the form and gives the feel of a miniature stained glass
window. In fact, you can see through it to the inside of the
envelope.
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SYRAPEX '05 Show Covers
Great Northeast Blackout of 1965
November 12, 2005
To mark SYRAPEX 2005 and its theme, “Lights Out!
Remembering the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965," these four covers are each
franked with one of the USPS’s 2005 Constellations issue.
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Veteran's Day Cover
November 11, 2005
Featuring a multi-color cachet by Frank Murray of
Heritage Cachets, these covers bear a special “Veteran’s Day Station” cancel and
the 3˘ Army and Navy issues of 1945 (Scott #934-935).
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Distinguished Marines FDC
& SDC
November 10 and 11, 2005
A set of four first day covers and
a set of four second day covers, each franked with
one of the 2005 Distinguished Marines stamps and featuring a multi-color cachet by
local artist Vincent Juchimek. The cancellation depicts a Marine sword and
reads “Semper Fi Station.”
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Rosamond Gifford Zoo Cover
July 24, 2004
Created to celebrate the 90th
anniversary of Syracuse's Rosamond Gifford Zoo, these colorful covers are
franked with the 2003 Reptiles stamps and feature a cachet designed by club
member and local artist Vincent Juchimek.
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SYRAPEX '03
Cover
Centennial of Powered Flight
November 9, 2003
The artwork for our SYRAPEX 2003 cachet is a fanciful depiction of a
celebration honoring the Wright Brothers' first powered flight of 1903.
It is several years after the historic event, and the crowd marvels at the
soaring plane as it flies high above the landscape.
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SYRAPEX '97 Cover
150th Anniversary of First US Stamp
November 1, 1997
This cover celebrates SYRAPEX
1997 and its theme, the sesquicentennial of the first United States postage
stamps.
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Onondaga County Bicentennial Cover
July 9, 1994
The five graphics on the cover represent different aspects of Onondaga
County history. The turtle is a symbol of the Iroquois people, the
packet boat represents the canal years, the basket of apples and the barn
remind us of the farms, and the automobile symbolizes the Franklin Auto.
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SYRAPEX '93 Cover
National Stamp Collecting Month
October 23, 1993
This cover was created for SYRAPEX ’93 and honors its theme, National Stamp
Collecting Month.
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Junior Philatelists of America Cover
Kids Show '93
May 13, 1993
This cover commemorates the
second annual Kids Stamp Show at the Tully Central Junior Senior High School
and its theme, the 30th anniversary of the Junior Philatelists of America.
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Elvis FDC (Official Memphis cancel)
January 8, 1993
The Syracuse Stamp Club, in conjunction with the Elvis Fans United of
Syracuse, created this extravagantly cacheted cover featuring the 1993 Elvis Presley stamp
and had it serviced at the official first day of issue station in Memphis,
Tennessee.
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Elvis FDC (Syracuse cancel)
January 8, 1993
The same cover as above,
cancelled on the first day of issue at the Syracuse, NY Main Post Office.
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Christopher Columbus Cover
October 10, 1992
Created for Syracuse's
celebration of the Columbian Quincentennial, these covers are franked with
the 1992 First Voyage of Columbus stamps.
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Kids Stamp Show Cover
"Discover Your Dreams"
May 16, 1992
The club created this cover for
the first Kids Stamp Show hosted at Tully, NY by the Apple Junior Stamp Club
and the Ben Franklin Stamp Club.
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St. Patrick's Day Parade Cover
March 14, 1992
The Syracuse Stamp Club, in
conjunction with the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee and the Syracuse Post
Office, celebrated the 10th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade with a special
pictorial, commemorative cancel and cacheted cover.
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