Garden Flowers: Lilac, Technical Cachets Dot-Matrix Design

This First Day Cover celebrates the 1993 29-cent Lilac stamp from the U.S. Garden Flowers series, featuring a vibrant purple lilac bloom. The cachet showcases Technical Cachets' distinctive pixelated, dot-matrix style artwork of a flowering plant rendered in black and white grid patterns. Posted from Spokane, Washington on May 15, 1993, this cover represents a charming blend of botanical art and early digital-inspired design aesthetic.

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Claude

The cachet features a pixelated/dot-matrix style black and white artwork of a flowering plant, created in a digital grid pattern characteristic of Technical Cachets' style. The stamp is a 29-cent USA 'Lilac' stamp from the Garden Flowers series, depicting a purple lilac bloom with green leaves against a light background. The circular hand-applied postmark reads 'Spokane, WA / May 15 / 1993 / 99210' with a standard 'First Day of Issue' machine-printed slug. Text below the cachet reads 'Garden Flowers / TECHNICAL Cachets.'

Mistral

This First Day Cover features a 1993 29-cent Lilac stamp from the U.S. Garden Flowers series, depicting a vibrant purple lilac bloom with green leaves. The cachet showcases a pixelated, dot-matrix style artwork of a flowering plant in black and white grid patterns, created by Technical Cachets. The postmark is a circular cancellation from Spokane, WA, dated May 15, 1993, with the text 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' printed alongside. The cover is in excellent condition with clear and legible details.

(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)