GAMM cachet cover bearing the 15-cent Seeing For Me stamp (Scott 1787) and an unofficial Paw Paw, Michigan, hand cancel dated June 15, 1979, the stamp’s first day. Joseph Csatari designed the stamp for the 50th anniversary of The Seeing Eye; the official first-day city was Morristown, New Jersey. The cachet’s text compresses the location history: The Seeing Eye incorporated in Nashville in 1929, moved to Whippany in 1931, and established its current Morris Township headquarters in 1965.
Claude
The GAMM cachet features a line-art illustration of a blind man in a blue suit carrying a briefcase, descending stairs guided by a German Shepherd guide dog. The cachet is titled 'Guide Dog Program 50th Anniversary 1979 First Day of Issue' in black and blue text, with a historical paragraph below describing the Oldenburg Society and the Seeing Eye school in Morristown, New Jersey. The stamp (Scott #1787, USA 15c) depicts a German Shepherd guide dog leading a person and is inscribed 'Seeing For Me.' The postmark is a circular hand cancel from Paw Paw, MI dated JUN 15 A.M. 1979 with ZIP code 49079, which is an unofficial first day cancel rather than the official Morristown, NJ FDC cancel.
Mistral
This First Day Cover commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Guide Dog Program in 1979. The cachet features a blue-suited blind man being guided by a German Shepherd down a set of stairs, with a briefcase in his left hand. The stamp depicts a blind man with a guide dog and the text 'Seeing For Me.' The postmark is a circular hand cancellation from Paw Paw, Michigan, dated June 15, 1979. The cover includes historical text about the Oldenburg Society and the Seeing Eye school. The condition appears to be very fine, with clear and intact artwork, stamp, and postmark.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
