Washington and Jackson – Generals Who Would Be President, $5

First-day cover for the $5 Washington and Jackson definitive, Scott #2592, issued August 19, 1994, at the American Philatelic Society stamp show in Pittsburgh. USPS revived an engraved design prepared but not used for the 1869 stamp series. The cover rotates the square stamp like a diamond and pairs it with a blue GAMM cachet and the show's skyline cancellation.

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Gerry Adlman GAMM Cachets
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Claude

The cachet, rendered in blue ink by GAMM Cachets (1994), features large portrait illustrations of Andrew Jackson and George Washington as well as smaller full-body figures of them in military/colonial dress. A blue banner reads 'Andrew Jackson / George Washington – Generals Who Would Be President' with the caption 'Two great leaders who served their country with distinction on the battlefield & in government.' The stamp is the 1994 U.S. $5 Washington and Jackson definitive, printed in dark olive-green in a diamond orientation, and affixed in the upper right. The pictorial cancellation includes the American Philatelic Society seal, a Pittsburgh skyline silhouette, and reads 'APS Station / Aug. 19 1994 / StampsHOW 94 / Pittsburgh, PA 15230.' Condition appears excellent with clean white envelope.

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This 1994 First Day Cover features a blue-ink cachet with detailed portraits of George Washington and Andrew Jackson in formal attire, flanked by smaller figures in military dress. The cachet text honors their dual roles as generals and presidents. The $5 Washington-Jackson definitive stamp in gray is canceled with a pictorial postmark from the American Philatelic Society's StampsHOW 94, depicting a city skyline and the APS seal. The postmark is legible and dates the cover to August 19, 1994, in Pittsburgh, PA.

(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)