1992 Summer Olympic Games - Barcelona Strip of Five

Artcraft cachet First Day Cover featuring a strip of five USA 29-cent stamps (Scott 2637-2641) depicting Olympic sports: soccer, gymnastics, volleyball, boxing, and wrestling. The black-and-white cachet artwork showcases two soccer players in action with bold text identifying the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. Machine cancellation from Baltimore, MD dated June 11, 1992 with pictorial Olympic rings slug.

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Claude

The cachet features black-and-white artwork of two soccer players in action, with bold text reading '1992 Summer Olympic Games / Barcelona, Spain' and the Artcraft maker's mark. Five USA 29-cent stamps are affixed in a horizontal strip, each depicting a different Olympic sport: soccer, gymnastics/floor exercise, volleyball, boxing, and wrestling, all with colorful backgrounds and the 1992 Olympics logo. The postmark is a machine cancellation reading 'First Day of Issue / Baltimore MD 21233 / June 11, 1992' with a pictorial Olympic rings cancellation slug. The cover appears to be in excellent, clean condition.

Mistral

This First Day Cover features a strip of five 29-cent USA stamps commemorating the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. The stamps depict various sports: soccer, gymnastics, volleyball, boxing, and wrestling. The cachet artwork, located on the left side, shows two soccer players in action in black-and-white with the text '1992 Summer Olympic Games' and 'Barcelona, Spain.' The postmark is a machine cancellation from Baltimore, MD, dated June 11, 1992, with a pictorial slug featuring the Olympic rings. The envelope is in clean condition.

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