UN Population Trends and Development - Artcraft Cachet
An Artcraft-designed First Day Cover featuring a smiling baby reaching upward with atomic orbit rings and globe, celebrating the United Nations' study of population trends. The cover bears a block of four 4-cent UN stamps (Scott #134) with silhouetted figures of varying sizes against a colorful mosaic background, postmarked United Nations, New York on November 29, 1965.
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The Artcraft cachet features a black-and-white illustration of a smiling baby reaching upward with atomic orbit rings and a globe in the background, alongside a line graph suggesting population growth trends. The cachet text reads 'Honoring United Nations Study of Population Trends and Development' with the UN emblem. A block of four 4-cent United Nations stamps depicts silhouetted figures of varying sizes against a colorful mosaic oval background, inscribed 'Population Trends and Development' and 'United Nations.' The circular hand-applied postmark reads 'United Nations, New York, Nov. 29, 1965' and the block includes corner selvage.
This First Day Cover features cachet artwork by Artcraft with a black-and-white photograph of a smiling baby reaching upward, surrounded by atomic orbit rings and a partial globe. The stamp block consists of four 4-cent UN stamps with silhouetted figures of varying sizes against a colorful mosaic background, symbolizing population diversity and development. The postmark is a circular hand-cancel from the United Nations in New York, dated November 29, 1965. The text on the cover honors the United Nations' study of population trends and development.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)