Little Women Stamp - Literacy Volunteers Conference 1993

This First Day Cover features the USA 29-cent 'Little Women' commemorative stamp from the Classic Books series, showing four young women gathered around someone reading aloud. The cachet artwork, signed by artist 'akin', depicts a charming hand-drawn yellow tabby cat sleeping atop a stack of pink and red books. The pictorial machine cancellation from the Literacy Volunteers of America Conference '93 in Louisville, Kentucky (October 23, 1993) shows a horse galloping across an open book with the text 'LITERACY From Start to Finish.'

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The cachet artwork, signed by artist 'akin', depicts a yellow tabby cat curled up sleeping atop a stack of books (the top book is pink/red), rendered in a charming hand-drawn style. The stamp is the USA 29-cent 'Little Women' commemorative showing four young women gathered around someone reading aloud, with a window visible in the background. The pictorial machine cancellation features a horse galloping across an open book with the text 'LITERACY From Start to Finish' above, applied at the Literacy Volunteers of America Conference '93 Station in Louisville, KY on October 23, 1993. The cover is in excellent, clean condition.

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This First Day Cover features the USA 29-cent 'Little Women' commemorative stamp from the Classic Books series, depicting four young women gathered around someone reading aloud. The cachet artwork, signed by 'akin', shows a yellow tabby cat sleeping on a stack of pink and red books. The pictorial machine cancellation from the Literacy Volunteers of America Conference '93 includes a horse galloping across an open book with the text 'LITERACY From Start to Finish'. The cover is in excellent condition.

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