A pristine example of Botswana's 1991 African Tourism Year series, P2 denomination, featuring vibrant wildlife imagery including elephants, crocodies, birds, and a mokoro canoe scene over the Okavango Delta landscape. The cover bears a participation cancel from the World Columbian Stamp Expo (WCSE) held in Chicago from May 22-31, 1992, with the distinctive blue circular postmark featuring a stamp-on-globe motif. The stamp retains its full selvage margin with visible plate numbers 207 and 208.
Claude
Plain white envelope with no cachet artwork. The stamp is a P2 denomination from Botswana's 1991 African Tourism Year series, depicting wildlife including elephants, crocodiles, a bird of prey in a tree, people in a mokoro canoe, and an airplane over a lush delta landscape. The circular blue cancellation is a participation cancel reading 'PARTICIPATION * BOTSWANA CHICAGO AT W.C.S.E. '92 MAY 22-31' with a stamp-on-globe motif in the center. The stamp retains its selvage margin with plate numbers 207 and 208.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a Botswana stamp from the 1991 African Tourism Year series with a denomination of P2. The stamp showcases a vibrant wildlife scene with elephants, crocodiles, birds, and a traditional mokoro canoe in the Okavango Delta. The postmark is a circular pictorial cancellation from the World Columbian Stamp Expo (WCSE) in Chicago, dated May 22–31, 1992, with a blue stamp-on-globe motif. The envelope has no visible cachet artwork on the left side. The stamp retains its full selvage margin with plate numbers 207 and 208 clearly visible.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
