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The pioneering brand of Ioor Cachets was produced by Harry C. Ioor, who was assisted by his sister, Travilla. Harry was a chiropractor in the State Life Building in Indianapolis. The team also owned a stamp shop, which contained a %u201cprintery,%u201d and their first cachets were for the George Rogers Clark stamp, which was issued in Vincennes on February 25, 1929. The Ioors created five different cachet varieties for that one stamp.Harry never married. He died February 16, 1940 at the age of 57 while he was in the middle of working on a series of cachets for the Famous American stamps of 1940. After his death, Travilla completed that series, and continued the Ioor brand of cachets on her own. Her cachets between 1940 and 1951 are usually identified by the signature %u201cIoor%u201d somewhere in the design. Travilla met a cachet making competitor, E. Milnor Peck (founder the Fleetwood Cover Service), when he came to Indianapolis for the First Day of Issue ceremonies of the 3%u00a2 Grand Army of the Republic stamp.on August 29, 1949. It was love at first sight. They were married in June of 1950 and promptly combined their two First Day Cover businesses. Travilla's last cachet under the Ioor brand was for the 3%u00a2 United Confederate Veterans issue of May 30, 1951. After that, she worked enthusiastically for the Fleetwood Cover Service. Minor and Travilla traveled hundreds-of-thousands of miles together, for first-day ceremonies around the country. This continued until Travilla died on March 16, 1967 at the age of 64.After Travilla%u2019s death, Minor lost enthusiasm for their Fleetwood business, and in December of 1968, he sold it to Unicover Corporation of Cheyenne, Wyoming, which eventually sold it to Mystic Stamp Company in 2007.