Claude
The Technical Cachets cachet features a black ink illustration of a Giant Panda sitting among bamboo on the lower left. The cover bears a horizontal strip of five 29-cent USA Wild Animals stamps depicting White Bengal Tiger, King Penguins, Flamingo, Giant Panda, and Giraffe. Two cancellations appear: a circular date stamp from New Orleans, LA 70113 dated Oct 1, 1992, and a pictorial First Day of Issue cancellation also dated Oct. 1, 1992, featuring a panda and flamingo among foliage. The text 'Wild Animals' is hand-lettered in large script below the stamps.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a horizontal strip of five 29-cent USA Wild Animals stamps depicting a White Bengal Tiger, King Penguins, Flamingo, Giant Panda, and Giraffe. The cachet, created by Technical Cachets, shows a black-and-white illustration of a Giant Panda sitting among bamboo on the left side, with 'Wild Animals' hand-lettered in black below it. The cover bears two postmarks: a circular New Orleans, LA cancellation dated October 1, 1992, and a pictorial First Day of Issue cancellation featuring a panda and flamingo among foliage. The condition of the cover appears clean and well-preserved.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
