U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog:
1939 New York World’s Fair Poster Stamps on #853 FDC's
1940 New York World’s Fair Poster Stamps

(last updated .07-03-2023)

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      This page displays all 54 of the 1940 New York World’s Fair Poster Stamps that were overprinted in silver on the 1939 New York World’s Fair Poster Stamps. Also displayed are all the U.S. Scott #853 First Day Covers I have seen which were specifically designed to incorporate the 1939 poster stamps as an integral part of each cachet. Please write if you can send a scan of any other #853 FDC with one of these stamps attached to it.

      Also displayed are U.S. Scott #853 First Day Covers with 31 different 1939 Poster Stamps attached to Adam K. Bert's #5 sized covers. I have no proof either way that the poster stamps were attached by Bert in 1939 or by somebody else decades later. However, it seems likely to me that Bert would have attached them horizontally so they might get tied to each cover by the First Day cancel.
      List of known Bert #853 FDC's with 1939 Poster Stamps

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Stamps are displayed and numbered in the order they appear on the sheet, top row to bottom row
Menu in Stamp Title Order
Row 1
1. #1-1 -- View of the Court of States (1 of 3) -- 1939 stamp -- 1940 stamp -- side-by-side comparison
     
2. #1-2 -- Electrical Products Building
   
3. #1-3 -- Y.M.C.A. Building
   
4. #1-4 -- Federal Building
   
5. #1-5 -- Aviation Building
   
6. #1-6 -- View of the Court of States (2 of 3) -- #853-16b1 (2)
   

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Row 2
7. #2-1 -- Perisphere and Trylon -- #853-16a -- #853-16b1
   
8. #2-2 -- Horticultural Exhibit
   
9. #2-3 -- Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Building
   
10. #2-4 -- Food No. 2 Building -- #853-16a4
    
11. #2-5 -- Administration Building
    
12. #2-6 -- All Gas - Good Housekeeping Home
    

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Row 3
13. #3-1 -- Consumers Building -- #853-17b
    
14. #3-2 -- Gas Industries Building
    
15. #3-3 -- Ford Building -- #853-16b1
    
16. #3-4 -- Long Island R.R. (Railroad) Station
    
17. #3-5 -- Federal Area -- #853-16b1
    
18. #3-6 -- Independence Hall -- #853-16b (2)
    

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Row 4
19. #4-1 -- Rodman Street Walk -- #853-16b4
    
20. #4-2 -- Administration Building
    
21. #4-3 -- Food No. 3 Building
    
22. #4-4 -- Textiles Building
    
23. #4-5 -- Palestine Building
    
24. #4-6 -- DuPont Building
    

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Row 5
25. #5-1 -- Production and Distribution Building -- #853-16a2 *** -- #853-16b3
    
26. #5-2 -- Mithrana
    
27. #5-3 -- Home Furnishings Building
    
28. #5-4 -- Aviation
    
29. #5-5 -- Statue of George Washington -- #853-16a2
    
30. #5-6 -- Admiral Byrd's Penguin Island -- #853-16b1
    

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Row 6
31. #6-1 -- General Motors Building
    
32. #6-2 -- Cuban Village -- #853-16a4
    
33. #6-3 -- New York City Building -- #853-16b
    
34. #6-4 -- Polish Pavilion
    
35. #6-5 -- United States Steel Building
    
36. #6-6 -- New England -- #853-16a2 ***
    

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Row 7
37. #7-1 -- Music Building -- #853-16a4 -- #853-16b1
    
38. #7-2 -- Hall of Communications
    
39. #7-3 -- Contemporary Arts Building -- #853-17c --0 #853-102
    
40. #7-4 -- Glass Center Building -- #853-16b1
    
41. #7-5 -- General Electric Exhibit Building
    
42. #7-6 -- Cosmetics Building -- #853-16b1
    

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Row 8
43. #8-1 -- Florida Building
    
44. #8-2 -- Perisphere and Trylon
    
45. #8-3 -- Maritime Building
    
46. #8-4 -- Chrysler Motors Building -- #853-16b
    
47. #8-5 -- Flag of the World's Fair -- #853-16a
    
48. #8-6 -- Railroad Building
    

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Row 9
49. #9-1 -- Health and Education Exhibits
    
50. #9-2 -- Section of Hall of Nations
    
51. #9-3 -- American Telephone and Telegraph Building -- #853-16b1
    
52. #9-4 -- Hall of Pharmacy
    
53. #9-5 -- Bridge of Tomorrow
    
54. #9-6 -- View of the Court of States (3 of 3)
    

1. Administration Building -- #2-5
2. Administration Building -- #4-2
3. Admiral Byrd's Penguin Island -- #5-6
4. All Gas - Good Housekeeping Home -- #2-6
5. American Telephone and Telegraph Building -- #9-3
6. Aviation -- #5-4
7. Aviation Building -- #1-5
8. Bridge of Tomorrow -- #9-5
9. Chrysler Motors Building -- #8-4
10. Consumers Building -- #3-1
11. Contemporary Arts Building -- #7-3
12. Cosmetics Building -- #7-6
13. Cuban Village -- #6-2
14. DuPont Building -- #4-6
15. Electrical Products Building -- #1-2
16. Federal Area -- #3-5
17. Federal Building -- #1-4
18. Flag of the World's Fair -- #8-5
19. Florida Building -- #8-1
20. Food No. 2 Building -- #2-4
21. Food No. 3 Building -- #4-3
22. Ford Building -- #3-3
23. Gas Industries Building -- #3-2
24. General Electric Exhibit Building -- #7-5
25. General Motors Building -- #6-1
26. Glass Center Building -- #7-4
27. Hall of Communications -- #7-2
28. Hall of Pharmacy -- #9-4
29. Health and Education Exhibits -- #9-1
30. Home Furnishings Building -- #5-3
31. Horticultural Exhibit -- #2-2
32. Independence Hall -- #3-6
33. Long Island R.R. (Railroad) Station -- #3-4
34. Maritime Building -- #8-3
35. Mithrana -- #5-2
36. Music Building -- #7-1
37. New England -- #6-6
38. New York City Building -- #6-3
39. Palestine Building -- #4-5
40. Perisphere and Trylon -- #2-1
41. Perisphere and Trylon -- #8-2
42. Polish Pavilion -- #6-4
43. Production and Distribution Building -- #5-1
44. Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Building -- #2-3
45. Railroad Building -- #8-6
46. Rodman Street Walk -- #4-1
47. Section of Hall of Nations -- #9-2
48. Statue of George Washington -- #5-5
49. Textiles Building -- #4-4
50. United States Steel Building -- #6-5
51. View of the Court of States -- #1-1
52. View of the Court of States -- #1-6
53. View of the Court of States -- #9-6
54. Y.M.C.A. Building -- #1-3

      This is a list of known to me 1939 Poster Stamps attached to Adam K. Bert #853 FDC's. The first examples I saw on eBay were on 11-01-2022. I have not yet seen at eBay any second copies of any of these covers. Whether they are one of a kind or many exist is unknown at this time.
1. #1-1
2. #1-4
3. #1-6
4. #2-1
5. #2-2
6. #2-4
7. #2-6
8. #3-1
9. #3-2
10. #3-4
11. #4-1
12. #4-2
13. #4-3
14. #4-4
15. #4-6
16. #5-1
17. #5-3
18. #5-4
19. #5-6
20. #6-1
21. #6-2
22. #6-4
23. #6-5
24. #7-1
25. #7-2
26. #7-4
27. #7-5
28. #8-3
29. #8-4
30. #9-3
31. #9-5

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Type Display:
      These are all the #853 FDC's with 1939 Poster Stamps cataloged in the Planty Photo Encyclopedia of Cacheted First Day Covers, 2nd ed., Volume XVI, 1939 (2004)
*** = Full Cover Scans wanted of all varieties not shown.
1. #853-16a -- green -- Staehle / Hobby Cover Service -- XVI:32
2. #853-16a.1 -- turquoise
3. #853-16a.2 -- light blue
4. #853-16a.3 -- purple
5. #853-16a.4 -- light purple


6. #853-16b -- green
7. #853-16b.1 -- turquoise
8. #853-16b.2 -- light blue***
9. #853-16b.3 -- purple
10. #853-16b.4 -- light purple


11. #853-16c -- green***


12. #853-17a -- Unknown -- XVI:32-33
13. #853-17b
14. #853-17c


15. #853-18 -- red & blue -- Pilgrim -- XVI:33
16. #853-18a -- red***
17. #853-18b -- brown & red***
18. #853-18c -- brown & blue***


19. #853-19 -- Panorama Series -- XVI:33***


20. #853-62 -- Unknown -- XVI:44***


21. #853-102 -- Unknown -- XVI:51

• Wikipedia: -- Poster stamp -- Cinderella stamp
• Wikipedia: 1939 New York World's Fair
• Welcome to the Fair! The 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fairs
        by the New York State Library in Albany, NY
• Color Photos of the 1939 New York World's Fair
        by Alan Taylor, 11-06-2017, 32 Photos
        The Atlantic -- Warning: you are only allowed to read two free articles per month at this site.
        One photo courtesy of The Atlantic website: None of the postcards of the Perisphere and the Trylon give you any perspective on how big they actually were.
  
• Greetings from the New York Worlds Fair [Archive (now dead site)]
        by Larry Spilkin (Detroit Area Art Deco Society)
• New York World's Fair 1939 and 1940 Incorporated Records 1935-1945 (685 p. PDF)
        by The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division
• The World of Tomorrow: Documenting the 1939 New York World’s Fair
        by Kenneth R. Cobb, 4-22-2022 -- New York City Department of Records & Information Services
• Poster Stamps of New York World's Fair 1939 - Americana
        by George H. LaBarre Galleries
        Background about the Fair, details about many of the buildings including what happend to some of the Pavilions after ther War started while the 1939 Fair was on-going, which Pavilions did not return for the 1940 Fair and what happened to the buildings after the Fair was over. There are details that some of them still exist today.

• Poster Stamp Collectors Club -- Links: Related Sites

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