Music Dragon Cards FDCs by de Vries

Dgn 1: Sc. 2054 Metropolitan Opera — the first Dragon Card, a 5"x7" tan card with brown printing, showing the new building at night; First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00

(Versions with plate blocks and zip blocks were also produced, and have sold out)

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Dgn 1a: Sc. 2054 Metropolitan Opera — Same card, but NYC philatelic hand cancel on actual centenary date 10/22/83 (not the First Day of Issue) — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

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Dgn 1b: Sc. 2054 Metropolitan Opera — block of four on the first Dragon Card, a 5"x7" brown-on-tan card, showing the new building at night; First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$4.50

Dgn 7: Sc. 2110 Jerome Kern — 5"x7" black-on-yellow Dragon Card, portrait of the composer, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 7c: Sc. 2110 Jerome Kern — Combo with American Music (a founder of ASCAP), Gershwin (at 19, a rehearsal pianist for Kern), Talking Pictures (he won 2 Oscars), John McCormack (he made the first popular recording of a Kern song, First Rose of Summer) — larger illustration (new window)...$4.25

Dgn 10: Sc. 2211 Duke Ellington — 5"x7" brown-on-tan Dragon Card reproducing a record album; First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

(An Ellington combo with #1372 Handy, #2044 Joplin & #1252 American Music sold out quickly.)

Caruso & Toscanini

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Dgn 13: Sc. 2250 Enrico Caruso — 5"x7" blue-on-white Dragon Card, reproducing his caricature of himself, his autograph; with the First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 13a: Sc. 2250 Enrico Caruso — 5"x7" blue-on-white Dragon Card, reproducing his caricature of himself, his autograph; with the 1973 Italian Caruso stamp, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$3.50

Dgn 13b: Sc. 2250 Enrico Caruso — 5"x7" blue-on-white Dragon Card, reproducing his caricature of himself and his autograph. With Sound Recording, Met Opera, John McCormack (another Met tenor of that era) and Italy's Caruso stamp, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$4.25

Dgn 25: Sc. 2411 Arturo Toscanini — blue-on-gray standard-size Dragon Card, vertical format, full-face photo, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 25c: Sc. 2411 Arturo Toscanini — blue-on-gray FDC-size Dragon Card, full-face printed photo, with #1500 Marconi radio radio (Electronics), #1705 Sound Recording. First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$3.50

Chicago Symphony, Carnegie Hall, Cole Porter

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Dgn 32: Sc. UX152 Chicago Symphony Hall — postal card with a Dragon Cards cachet: a black art deco-style illustration of classical musicians, conductor; 50 'singles' made — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 32c: Sc. UX152 Chicago Symphony Hall postal card — With #1252 American Music and #1845 2¢ Stravinsky, First Day of Issue hand cancel, 50 made — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

Dgn 33: Sc. UX154 Carnegie Hall postal card — with a two-color Dragon Cards cachet. The background is Harper's magazine drawing of Opening Night; the foreground is a newspaper review and the Centennial logo. First Day of Issue hand cancel, unaddressed. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 33b: Sc. UX154 Carnegie Hall postal card — with a two-color Dragon Cards cachet. The background is Harper's magazine drawing of Opening Night; the foreground is a newspaper review and the Centennial logo. First Day of Issue hand cancel, unaddressed. With W. C. Handy (first jazz concert April 1928), Gershwin (premiered 2 works) (15) — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

(Combinations Dgn 33a with composers/conductors Toscanini, Sousa, Stravinsky, Paderewski; Dgn 33c with #1252 American Music and #1171 Andrew Carnegie; and dual-cancel Dgn 33d with a small CDS for indicia and a second stamp hand canceled in NYC on 5/5/91, the true centennial, have all sold out.)

Dgn 34: Sc. 2550 Cole Porter — green & black-on-beige FDC-size Dragon Card, printed photo, reproduction of sheet music for "Begin the Beguine," list of other hits, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 34a: Sc. 2550 Cole Porter — green & black-on-beige FDC-size Dragon Card, printed photo, reproduction of sheet music for "Begin the Beguine," list of other hits, First Day of Issue hand cancel With #1252 American Music, issued date of his death! (22 produced) — larger illustration (new window)...$2.75

(Dgn 34b, the "Broadway Composers Combo," with Gershwin, Cohan, and Kern, has sold out.)

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