Ruby-throated Hummingbird 29¢ Booklet Stamp, June 15, 1992
This First Day Cover features a minimalist line-drawn hummingbird cachet that complements the vibrant photogravure stamp depicting a ruby-throated hummingbird hovering near a red flower. Issued by Technical Cachets and postmarked June 15, 1992 in Washington, DC, this cover is number 10 of a 10-cover series and includes extensive technical philatelic notation. The cover celebrates the 1992 Hummingbird Booklet series, designed by Chuck Ripper.
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The cachet features a line-drawn hummingbird in flight rendered in simple black ink outline style on white envelope. The stamp is the 29-cent Ruby-throated Hummingbird from the 1992 Hummingbird Booklet series, showing a colorful photogravure illustration of the bird hovering near a red flower. The postmark is a machine cancel reading 'First Day of Issue' with wavy lines. Extensive typewritten technical details appear on the cachet face, noting this is cover #10 of 10.
This First Day Cover features a simple but elegant line-drawn hummingbird as the cachet artwork on the left side, complementing the vibrant photogravure stamp depicting a ruby-throated hummingbird hovering near a red flower. The stamp is cancelled with a circular postmark dated June 15, 1992, in Washington, D.C. The cover includes extensive technical philatelic notation and is part of a numbered series (#10 of 10) produced by Technical Cachets. The stamp and cachet are in excellent condition, with clear and legible details.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)