calsfoundation@cals.org
October 19, 2009
At least 376,693 of the stamps issued in honor of the Arkansas centennial in 1936 were attached to envelopes known as “first day covers” and were canceled by the U.S. Postal Service with the date of June 15, 1936, the state’s one-hundredth anniversary. The issuing of such a large number of these covers with a June 15 cancellation date makes them an easily obtainable Arkansas collectible even today.