Claude
This Vatican City cover features a stamp depicting Cristoforo Colombo (Christopher Columbus) with a portrait in warm brown tones against a background showing navigation charts, issued for the 500th anniversary of the discovery and evangelization of America (1492-1992), denominated at 500 lire and printed by Courvoisier. The cover bears two circular pictorial cancellations from Poste Vaticane for the World Columbian Stamp Expo '92 in Chicago, featuring a profile portrait of Columbus alongside a globe design. The cancellation text reads 'CHICAGO 22-31 MAGGIO' indicating the show ran May 22-31, 1992. The cover is plain white with no cachet artwork, only the dual cancels applied somewhat sloppily.
Mistral
This Vatican City First Day Cover features a 500 lire stamp depicting Cristoforo Colombo (Christopher Columbus) with a portrait in sepia tones and a navigation chart background in muted colors. The stamp commemorates the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage (1492-1992) and was printed by Courvoisier. The cover bears two circular pictorial cancellations from Poste Vaticane showing Columbus's profile, a globe, and the text 'World Columbian Stamp Expo '92 Chicago.' The postmarks are dated May 22-31, 1992. No cachet artwork is present on this plain white cover.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
