Claude
The Tudor House cachet features a red ink illustration of early pioneers/settlers, possibly depicting Lewis and Clark or early explorers, shown in a rugged landscape with rifles and period clothing. The Great Seal of North Dakota is printed in blue ink overlapping the red artwork. The stamp (USA 25¢) depicts a red grain elevator/barn against a prairie landscape with blue sky and clouds, inscribed 'North Dakota 1889.' The machine cancel reads 'BISMARCK, ND / FEB 21 / 1989 / 58501' with 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' in a slogan cancel.
Mistral
The cachet artwork, designed by Tudor House, features a detailed red ink illustration of early American pioneers or explorers in period clothing, overlaid with the blue Great Seal of North Dakota. The stamp depicts a red grain elevator against a prairie landscape with a blue sky, commemorating North Dakota's 100th anniversary of statehood. The postmark is a circular machine cancel from Bismarck, North Dakota, dated February 21, 1989. The text 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' is printed in black near the stamp, and additional text '58501' appears in the postmark.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
