1992 Christmas Madonna and Child with Digital Holiday Cachet
This First Day Cover features Technical Cachets' striking pixelated Christmas tree design adorned with ornaments and gifts, rendered in black ink with a modern digital art aesthetic. The cover is franked with the 1992 29-cent Christmas stamp depicting Bellini's renowned Madonna and Child painting from the National Gallery, capturing the religious artistry of Renaissance masterpieces. Hand-cancelled in Washington, DC on October 22, 1992, this cover beautifully blends contemporary graphic design with classical holiday imagery.
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The cachet features a pixelated/digital art style Christmas tree in black ink decorated with round ornaments and topped with a star, with wrapped gift boxes beneath it. The text 'TECHNICAL' appears in the upper left and 'Happy Holidays' in bold at the bottom right of the cachet. The stamp is the 1992 29-cent Christmas Madonna and Child issue depicting Bellini's c.1490 painting from the National Gallery, shown on a dark background. The postmark is a hand cancel from Washington, DC dated October 22, 1992.
This First Day Cover features a black-and-white pixelated Christmas tree cachet with ornaments and wrapped gifts at the base, designed in a modern digital art style. The stamp depicts the Madonna and Child from a Renaissance painting by Bellini, with the text 'Christmas' and '29 USA' in red. The postmark is circular and hand-cancelled, reading 'WASHINGTON, DC OCT 22 1992 20066', with 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' printed nearby. The text 'Happy Holidays' is printed below the cachet, and 'TECHNICAL' is printed above it.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)