With this issue Crosby began to produce first day covers with what would become his trademark....small black and white photos mounted on the cover with raised thermographic printing. With the first day location so close to his home and the many ships in the harbor available for interesting cancellations, Crosby prepared many different varieties of covers, some with photos, some without, some with the same printing, but with different photos and others with only minor differences in text or design. Additionally, many of the covers were colored with watercolor paints.

While the Planty catalog lists many of the covers, many others are not listed there. In the covers illustrated below, I have tried to keep the unlisted versions as varieties of those illustrated in the Planty catalog...thus the reference to var1 and var2, etc. I have not included any variations for the hand coloring...only for the variations in print color, design and photographs. On the detail pages I indicate the differences in the various covers. Although more than 50 different designs are illustrated here there are many more to be found.

Planty #20	Planty #20a	Planty #38	Planty #38a
Planty #38b-var1	Planty #38b-var2	Planty #38c	Planty #38d
Planty #38d-var1	Planty #38e	Planty #38f	Planty #38f -var1
Planty #38f-var2	Planty #38g	Planty #38g-var1	Planty #38g-var2
Planty #38h
Planty #38h-var1	Planty #38h-var2	Planty #38h-var3	Planty #38h-var4
Planty #39	Planty #39-var1	Planty #39-var2	Planty #39a
Planty #39a-var1	Planty #39a-var2	Planty #40	Planty #40-var 1
Planty #40a	Planty #40a-var1	Planty #40b	Planty #40d
Planty #40e	Planty #40g	Planty #40h	Planty #40h-var1
Planty #40i	Planty #40j	Planty #40j-var1	Planty #40j var2
Planty #40j-var3	Planty #40k	Planty #40k-var1	Planty #41
Planty #41-var1	Planty #41-var 2	Planty #41a	Planty #41b
Planty #41b-var1	Planty #42-var1	Planty #43	Planty #43a
Planty #43a-var1	Planty #43a-var2	Planty #43b	Planty #43b-var1