TWA Flight Center — 2005 Architecture First Day Cover
Artcraft first day cover for the 37-cent TWA Terminal stamp (Scott 3910d), one of twelve designs in the Masterworks of Modern American Architecture souvenir sheet issued May 19, 2005, in Las Vegas. Art director Derry Noyes and designer Margaret Bauer selected the building photographs. The stamp honors Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center at JFK; the cachet collage includes the TWA building, Chrysler Building, and Hancock Center.
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The ArtCraft cachet features a grayscale composite illustration of iconic American architectural landmarks including the John Hancock Center (Chicago), Chrysler Building (New York), and the TWA Terminal at JFK, with birds in flight overhead. The 37-cent stamp depicts the sweeping white concrete interior arches of the TWA Terminal, New York, NY, in black and white photography. The rectangular machine cancellation reads 'First Day of Issue | May 19, 2005 / Masters of Modern American Architecture / Las Vegas, NV 89119'. Text on the cachet reads 'Official First Day of Issue' in red and 'Masterworks of Modern American Architecture' in bold red at the bottom.
This First Day Cover features a detailed grayscale cachet illustration of modern American architectural landmarks, including the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport, the Chrysler Building, and the John Hancock Center, with birds in flight. The stamp is a 37-cent issue depicting the TWA Terminal, part of the 'Masters of Modern American Architecture' series. The cover is postmarked with a machine cancellation in Las Vegas, NV, on May 19, 2005. The cover is in excellent condition, with clear and legible text indicating it is an 'Official First Day of Issue' from ArtCraft.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)