Interesting First Day Covers by Fouad Kronfol

Going through a box of UN First Day Covers which I acquired at an auction a
few years ago, I found these two covers that have an interesting story: 

This cover has as its addressee our friend and XUNICEF colleague Horst
Cerni. It was addresssed to him when he was based in Chile. In fact I found
a few more covers addressed to Horst but when he was working in NY. The
likely story is that Horst bought these covers from the UN Postal
Administration and finally disposed of them, either by sale or by donation,
to someone who then sold them to the auction firm Vance operating in
Ontario.It was a surprise for me to discover this coincidence of knowing the
person who originally bought these UN covers. This is one of the nice things
about philately...you never know what you will find in stamps or envelopes.

The second UN FDC depicts in its cachet the two buildings at 860 and 870 UN
Plaza where UNICEF first had its HQ after leaving the UN Secretariat
building. They were built in 1966 and consisted of apartments over 6 floors
of office space. I did not know that UNDP also had its HQ in there. They
were subsequently bought by ALCOA the aluminium company, so we called them
the Alcoa buildings. In my first visit to NY in 1963 I was taken around the
UN building where UNICEF was still based by Martin Sandberg. In 1976 when I
transferred to NYHQ my MidEast Section office was in these buildings. Then
again in 1983 when I returned to NY in Africa Section it was where we
pioneered the "open space" office on the sixth floor.

Nice memories!

Fouad