Claude
The cachet features pen-and-ink portrait drawings of Barack Obama and Joseph Biden flanked by American flags in red, white, and blue, with the Obama campaign logo between them. Text reads 'Inauguration Day January 20, 2009' in gold lettering, with 'Barack Obama 44th President of the United States' and 'Joseph Biden 47th Vice President of the United States' printed below in blue. The stamp is a USA 42-cent American flag issue (Scott #4129 or similar). The pictorial cancellation in blue ink depicts the U.S. Capitol dome and reads 'January 20 2009 / Inauguration Day Station / Wilmington, Delaware 19801' with seven stars.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a House of Farnum cachet with detailed pen-and-ink portraits of Barack Obama and Joseph Biden, accompanied by red, white, and blue American flags and the Obama-Biden campaign logo in gold. The cachet includes gold lettering commemorating Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, with blue text identifying Obama as the 44th President and Biden as the 47th Vice President. The cover is franked with a 42-cent American flag stamp (Scott #4129) and bears a pictorial cancellation from Wilmington, Delaware, featuring the U.S. Capitol dome and the text 'Inauguration Day Station' in blue ink.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
