1992 Olympics Baseball First Day Cover - Hall of Fame Cachet

First Day Cover of the 29-cent 1992 Summer Olympics baseball stamp (Scott #2619) featuring a Hall of Fame cachet with a pen-and-ink vintage baseball scene signed by artist JG, showing a sliding play with fielder and umpire. The stamp depicts a modern Olympic baseball catcher tagging a sliding runner with Olympic rings. Postmarked April 3, 1992, in Atlanta, Georgia with a pictorial cancel featuring baseball equipment and Olympic rings.

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The cachet features a black-and-white illustration of a vintage baseball scene showing a player sliding into base with a fielder and umpire nearby, rendered in pen-and-ink style, signed 'JG 90' at lower left. Above the illustration is a Hall of Fame logo with a baseball emblem flanked by two small baseballs. The 29-cent USA stamp depicts a colorful modern baseball scene with Olympic rings, showing a catcher tagging a sliding runner. The pictorial cancellation is circular, featuring a baseball glove, bat, and ball with Olympic rings in the center, reading 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE • ATLANTA, GA 30304 • APRIL 3, 1992'.

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This First Day Cover features a detailed pen-and-ink cachet illustration of a vintage baseball scene, depicting a sliding player, a fielder, and an umpire in action. The stamp, Scott #2619, showcases a modern Olympic baseball catcher tagging a sliding runner with Olympic rings in the background. The cover is postmarked with a pictorial cancellation featuring baseball equipment and Olympic rings, dated April 3, 1992, in Atlanta, Georgia. The cachet is signed by the artist 'JG 90'.

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