What is this?

[Bikerbettyboop]

http://cgi.ebay.com/BETTY-BOOP-with-Simba-Disneys-LION-KING-FDC_W0QQitemZ5655232160QQcategoryZ687QQrdZ1QQcmdZV iewItem

[bettyboopfan]

This is what I found out about FDCs.

First Day covers (FDC) are stamps affixed on an envelope and cancelled on the stamp's first day of issue. Today a "first day" cancel will also show the post office where the stamp was ceremonially first issued.

First Day cover collecting is a very popular part of stamp collecting, and anyone can make their own first day covers.

A first day cover, an FDC, is often times also decorated with a picture or design highlighting the subject of the stamp. These are called "cachets," and are very collectable.

FDC collecting is probably the most creative areas of stamp collecting with people designing covers, adding additional stamps related to the first-day stamp, and using unique envelopes.

[Bikerbettyboop]

I know what a FDC is but I wondered how it originated. Did someone make this?

[bettyboopfan]

Oh I am sorry. I thought you were asking what a FDC was.

[The Moocher]

Looks like someone got an envelope with a picture of Betty on it, put a stamp on the envelope on the first day of issue then got it franked.

Assuming the envelope was legitimate in the first place, I see no objection to this at all; in fact it seems rather a good idea......

Unless someone more expert like BBB knows different.

Mooch

[bettyboopfan]

It looks like the envelope is legitimate but I don't really know by just looking at the pic.

[mgchan]

Hard to tell. I don't think it's authorized.

[bettyboopfan]

I guess someone must have made it....