Americover 1992 Wildflowers - Desert Five Spot
Unofficial first day cover for the 1992 Wildflowers series featuring the 29-cent Desert Five Spot stamp. Mailed on July 24, 1992 with a pictorial machine cancel showing Columbus's Santa María from the A.F.D.C.S. Convention Station in Columbus, Ohio. The cover uses plain Radisson Hotels International stationery with a printed selvage tab advertising the Wildflowers Album.
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This cover uses Radisson Hotels International stationery as the envelope, with no dedicated cachet artwork on the left panel beyond the hotel's embossed gray logo. The stamp is a USA 29-cent 'Desert Five Spot' wildflower stamp featuring a white/pink flower with green vine on a dark background, from the 1992 Wildflowers series. The postmark is a pictorial machine cancel depicting a sailing ship (Columbus's Santa María) with 'July 24, 1992 / Columbus / Ohio 43216 / A.F.D.C.S. Convention Station' — a special show cancel for Americover 1992. A printed selvage tab attached to the stamp promotes ordering a 64-page Wildflowers Album with 50 mint stamps.
This First Day Cover features a plain grey cachet with no artwork, only the pre-printed Radisson Hotels International logo on plain stationery. The 29-cent stamp depicts a detailed illustration of the Desert Five Spot wildflower with green leaves and a brown stem. The postmark is a pictorial machine cancel from the A.F.D.C.S. Convention Station, showing an image of Columbus's Santa María ship. The selvage text promotes a Wildflowers Album. The cover is in good condition with no visible damage.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)