Yesteryear Revisited - Auburn Good Ol' Days 1991

This First Day Cover commemorates Auburn, Washington's Good Ol' Days festival (August 23-25, 1991) with an ornate blue cachet featuring scrollwork and floral elements framing a penny-farthing bicycle illustration. The oval pictorial postmark depicts a cyclist and is dated August 24, 1991. The cover features a 29-cent US Flag over Mount Rushmore stamp (Scott #2523) on light blue envelope stock in excellent condition.

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Claude

The cachet features an ornate blue decorative frame with scrollwork and floral elements enclosing text reading 'Yesteryear Revisited / Auburn / Good Ol' Days / Saturday, August 23-25, 1991' along with an illustration of a penny-farthing bicycle. The postmark is an oval pictorial cancel depicting a man riding a penny-farthing bicycle, with text reading 'AUBURN, WA 98002-9998 / GOOD OLE DAYS STATION - AUG 24, 1991'. The stamp affixed is a 29-cent US Flag over Mount Rushmore stamp. The cover is in excellent condition on light blue envelope stock.

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This First Day Cover features a detailed blue cachet with scrollwork and floral designs framing a penny-farthing bicycle, commemorating the 'Good Ol' Days' festival in Auburn, WA (August 23-25, 1991). The pictorial postmark shows a cyclist on a penny-farthing, canceled on August 24, 1991. The stamp is the 29-cent US Flag over Mount Rushmore issue (Scott #2523), and the cover is in excellent condition.

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