3182n - First World Series

The First World Series stamp (Scott #3182n) was issued as part of the Celebrate The Century 1900s sheet on February 3rd, 1998 in Washington, DC.  The description on the back of the stamp states, "The championship games of 1903 are considered baseball's first World Series.  Boston of the American League beat Pittsburgh of the National League 5 games to 3 in a best-of-nine series."  For more information on the series, visit this Baseball Almanac site.

I was drawn to the stamp because I am a baseball fan in Boston and, at the time (before 2004), this might be as close to a World Series champion as I could get.  Also, I was very intrigued at the three different approaches to making cachets for this stamp: 1) generic "Celebrate the Century 1900s" cachets, 2) generic baseball cachets, or 3) specific First World Series cachets.  In fact, I have enough covers that depict the players, places, and events associated with the actual World Series that I have thought about trying to create a show display that uses the FDCs to tell the story of each game of the series.
Below you will find photos of all my 3182n FDCs alphabetically by cachetmaker.  I also include a section for first day sheets.

Since cachetmakers sometimes produce different cachets for the same stamp or slightly different versions of the same cover, I am showing either a single photo, multiple photos, a photo gallery view, or a slider view (when I have additional text per cover).  If known, I have added rollover text documenting the number of covers created (e.g., "out of /25").  Sometimes I will also add variations that have interesting cancellations (I have identified ten dinstinct cancels), usages, or destinations.  Also, the USPS went all out publicizing the Celebrate the Century series and I have a couple of those marketing items.

In all cases, you can click to see an enlarged photo of the cover or postcard.

I have also put all the 3182n FDCs and covers I own into a single, easy to view photo gallery.
I am always on the lookout for additional 3182n First World Series covers, particularly ones with unofficial cancellations.  If you know of any cachetmakers I am missing or can provide corrections to this site (particularly in  identifying "unknown" cachetmakers), please email me at LPD Cachets.

Ceremony Program First Day Sheets First Day Covers Combos & Non FDCs

Ceremony Program

Below is the official ceremony program given to participants and attendees of the first day ceremony held in Washington, DC on February 3rd, 1998.  The released the CtC: 1900s and CtC: 1910s stamps during the same ceremony providing a first day cancel of one stamp each (in this case, 3182d for CtC: 1900s).  Not only did the USPS have a full agenda of speakers (Whitey Ford honored 3182n), but they also included a brochure that detailed Celebrate the Century stamp selection and design process, as well as, all the people involved on the CtC Commemorative stamp team.

First Day Sheets

Since the First World Series stamp was part of the Celebrate the Century: 1900s stamp sheet, several cachetmakers produced full sheet FDCs.

Artcraft

Artmaster

BCG

Devlin

Glad

House of Farnam

Pugh

USPS

First Day Covers

It can be a little difficult these days to distinguish between FDCs created  near the first day of issue and add-on covers created years later; so, I have just listed my covers by cachetmaker and identify those that are clearly marked as add-ons.  Near the end of the page, I have a slideshow of "Unknown" covers and would love any input in identifying them.

Anagram

Aristocrats

Artcraft

Artmaster

Artopages

Barre

BGC

Bevil

CL

Clements

Cole 

Collins

Colorano

Color Copy

Cover Craft

Dargis Velvatone

Davis

DGW

Dragon

 Dynamite

Edken

Edsel

Faircloth

Fleetwood

Fox

FSC

Fuson

Gamm

Garrett

GG

Ginsburg

Glad

Goldberg

H&M

Heritage

HH

Hobby Link

HOC

House of Farnam

 Hussey

Info Gold

Juvelar

KAH

King

Kribbs Kovers

LEB

LMG

LPD

LRC

Main Street

Mystic

Nikirk

NJM

Nostalgia

PAM

Panda

PCS

PCS Gold

PMW

Pugh

Ranto

RC?

RKA

Romp

Ross

RRAGS 

S&T

Sanchez

Shadow

Tanya

TCMA

Twin Rivers

Via

WII

Wild Bill

Wild Horse

Wilson

Unknown Covers/Postcards

Looks like it is handpainted
A rare addressed FDC for this issue
Clearly created by the same person (left one is hand colored)
A lot of text!(UO - Fort Point Sta, Boston, MA)
Handdrawn
Produced in very small editions by someone in Pennsylvania (both subjects are from PA and I have two next day covers by the same person with PA subjects & postmarks -- see next section of non FDCs)
These look very similar to RKA Cachets, but I am calling them "Unknown" for now...
Seems pretty clear these were all serviced by the same person. (all are from Great Baseball Players of the Past: Thirty-Two Picture Postcards)
No cachet but unofficial postmark from Royal Oak, MI

Combos & Non FDCs

Being baseball-related, the 3182n: First World Series stamp is often used in combination with other baseball-related FDCs and on non-FDCs that are celebrating some baseball event.

Ansink

CEC

Colorano

Goldberg

Louisville Slugger

LPD

Ranto

RGT

TNT

Unknown

Produced in very small editions by someone in Pennsylvania (both subjects are from PA and I have two FDCs by same person with PA subjects/postmarks in Unknown FDC section above)

Wild Bill