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[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by JT

Many first day covers are sold before the actual event or whatever these are commemorating, thus this FDC could have been issued before Frye died.

Stamps are also sold before the first "Official" issue.

Cancellations can be added weeks, months, or a good amount of time after the event by the USPS.

Sometimes blank envelopes are signed and a rubber stamp cachet and postmark is added at a later date. You see this often with astronauts. An envelope is signed and then later postmarked the day of the launch or moon landing.

But the item is question is not a rubber stamp cachet -- it is a cachet printed on the envelope at the time of initial printing and dated 1944. Does anyone seriously think this postal cover dated 1944 was available, sent to a star, and signed prior to November 1943?

Further, I do not believe the post office ever pre- or post-dates a postal cancellation. The date on the cancel is the date it was stamped. If this is not true, I'd like to see a reference proving otherwise.

So we are left to believe that a series of highly unlikely occurrences happened with the postal cancellation and printing of the envelope, or the signature is fake.

Occam's razor.