US FDC 1960 Year Set 36 First Day Covers All Cacheted With Addresses |

Description

olen mail in the past, currently Brazil registered only.
Here is an attractive and desirable lot of the first day covers (all cacheted, all with neatly typed or written addresses) of all 36 US commemorative and regular stamp issues of 1960.
The Post Office released a large number of stamps in 1960 (as it often did during presidential election years; 1948 and 1968 also saw a large number of issues). On July 4, the Post Office put the 50-star American flag on a stamp for the first time, as Hawaii had entered the Union the previous August.  The American Credo series of 6 stamps (5 in 1960, the other in 1961) debuted, and the Champions of Liberty series continued with four more 4-cent and 8-cent pairs.  Other issues honored the Boy Scouts, the Camp Fire Girls, the Winter Olympics, and Mexico's independence, to name but a few.
The 36 commemorative FDCs from 1960, all of which are present in this FDC lot, are:
1/20/1960 Scott 1139 4¢ American Credo Washington
2/8/1960 Scott 1145 4¢ Boy Scouts of America
2/18/1960 Scott 1146 4¢ 1960 Winter Olympic Games
3/7/1960 Scott 1147 4¢ Champion of Liberty Thomas G. Masaryk
3/7/1960 Scott 1148 8¢ Champion of Liberty Thomas G. Masaryk
3/31/1960 Scott 1140 4¢ American Credo Franklin
4/7/1960 Scott 1149 4¢ World Refugee Year
4/18/1960 Scott 1150 4¢ Water Conservation
5/18/1960 Scott 1141 4¢ American Credo Jefferson
5/31/1960 Scott 1151 4¢ South East Asia Treaty Organization
6/2/1960 Scott 1152 4¢ Honoring the American Woman
6/17/1960 Scott 1031A 1¼¢ Palace of Governors
6/17/1960 Scott 1054A 1¼¢ Palace of Governors Coil
7/4/1960 Scott 1153 4¢ American Flag with 50 Stars
7/19/1960 Scott 1154 4¢ Pony Express Centennial
8/28/1960 Scott 1155 4¢ Employ the Handicapped
8/29/1960 Scott 1156 4¢ World Forestry Congress
9/14/1960 Scott 1142 4¢ American Credo Francis S. Key
9/16/1960 Scott 1157 4¢ Mexican Independence Sesquicentennial
9/28/1960 Scott 1158 4¢ U.S. and Japan Treaty Centennial
10/8/1960 Scott 1159 4¢ Champion of Liberty Ignacy Jan Paderewski
10/8/1960 Scott 1160 8¢ Champion of Liberty Ignacy Jan Paderewski
10/10/1960 Scott 1161 4¢ Robert A. Taft Memorial
10/15/1960 Scott 1162 4¢ National Automobile Show
10/18/1960 Scott 1163 4¢ Boys' Clubs of America Centenary
10/20/1960 Scott 1164 4¢ First Automated Post Office in the U.S.
10/26/1960 Scott 1165 4¢ Champion of Liberty Baron Gustaf Mannerheim
10/26/1960 Scott 1166 8¢ Champion of Liberty Baron Gustaf Mannerheim
11/1/1960 Scott 1167 4¢ 50th Anniversary of the Campfire Girls
11/2/1960 Scott 1168 4¢ Champion of Liberty Giuseppe Garibaldi
11/2/1960 Scott 1169 8¢ Champion of Liberty Giuseppe Garibaldi
11/5/1960 Scott 1170 4¢ Walter F. George Memorial
11/19/1960 Scott 1143 4¢ American Credo Lincoln
11/25/1960 Scott 1171 4¢ Andrew Carnegie
12/6/1960 Scott 1172 4¢ John Foster Dulles Memorial
12/15/1960 Scott 1173 4¢ Echo 1 Communications for Peace
All 36 covers are clean, fresh, and unaddressed.  The cachets are mostly from the Big 3 cachet makers (Artcraft, Artmaster, and Fleetwood) though there will be some variance in the lots offered, and the cachets may not exactly match the ones in the scans.
See the scans for details.