An Artcraft commemorative cover postmarked December 7, 1991, at Pearl Harbor Station in Honolulu on the attack's 50th anniversary. Its black-and-white cachet combines a labeled rescue boat with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin extra headline “WAR! OAHU BOMBED BY JAPANESE PLANES.” The 29-cent “Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, December 7” stamp is Scott 2559i from the 1941: A World at War sheet, first issued September 3, 1991, in Phoenix; this is therefore an anniversary station cover, not a first-day cover. The pictorial cancellation depicts the USS Arizona Memorial and reads “Pearl Harbor Remembered.”
Claude
The ArtCraft cachet features a black-and-white illustration depicting a Pearl Harbor rescue boat seeking survivors, with a superimposed Honolulu Star-Bulletin EXTRA newspaper headline reading 'WAR! OAHU BOMBED BY JAPANESE PLANES.' The 29-cent USA stamp (Scott #2559) shows battleships under attack with black smoke billowing, captioned 'Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, December 7.' The pictorial machine cancellation features a silhouette of the USS Arizona Memorial and reads 'USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL / PEARL HARBOR REMEMBERED / 1941 50th Anniversary 1991' with a circular station cancel from PEARL HARBOR STA, HONOLULU HI 96818 dated DEC. 7, 1991. The cover is unaddressed and in excellent condition.
Mistral
This First Day Cover commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack with a detailed black-and-white cachet illustration of a rescue boat seeking survivors amidst smoke, featuring a reproduction of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin 'WAR!' headline. The 29-cent stamp depicts a dramatic scene of battleships under attack with billowing smoke. The pictorial machine postmark includes the USS Arizona Memorial silhouette and is clearly dated December 7, 1991, from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The envelope is in excellent condition with crisp artwork and a clean cancellation.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
