Yeah, that’s an amazing amount of alliteration, but how many times am I going to be able to say that I found a first flight cover postmarked in Florida on March 4, 1948, on a cachet that includes pictures of fish and using Franklin D. Roosevelt and the four freedoms stamp (Scott # 933)? Yeah, fifteen words (and that’s another meta title word) starting with F in the title!
My email today had notice of a new auction item that was just that. At $3 to purchase and free shipping, you bet I put my money down. I could have offered $4 to extend the alliteration even further, but he was asking $3, so I got to save a dollar. I must admit that it wasn’t the alliteration that made me push the buy button, even if it did make a wonderful blog post title, it was that the cover is signed by the postmaster of Leesburg, Florida, where the cover was mailed. Now if only there was a synonym for autograph that also started with F…
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