First Day Cover Sc. 2110 Jerome Kern on a 5"x7"
black-on-yellow Dragon Card, portrait of the composer, First Day of
Issue hand cancel ties stamps for American
Music (he was a founder of ASCAP), George Gershwin (who, at 19, was a
rehearsal pianist for
Kern), Talking Pictures (Kern won two Oscars), and John McCormack (who
made the first popular recording of a Kern song, "The First Rose of
Summer"). Great for a Music- or Judaica-on-stamps collection! |