Herb Robert Wildflowers Series - Columbus Stamp Show 1992

This First Day Cover features the 1992 Fifty Wildflowers series 29-cent Herb Robert stamp, which displays a pink flower with green leaves on a black background. The cover includes a distinctive cross-stitch/pixel-art style cachet in black and white by Technical (catalog FDO1-9206), depicting a generic wildflower plant. The oval pictorial cancellation from the Wildflowers Stamp Show in Columbus, Ohio on July 24, 1992, completes this collectible example of early 1990s wildflower stamp show covers.

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Claude

The cachet features a pixelated/cross-stitch style black and white artwork of a wildflower plant on a dark background, with the text 'Wildflowers of America' and 'TECHNICAL•FDO1•9206' below. The stamp is a 29-cent USA stamp from the Fifty Wildflowers series depicting a pink flower (Wild Rose / Herb Robert) with green leaves on a black background. The pictorial cancellation is oval-shaped featuring an engraved bouquet of wildflowers with text 'Wildflowers Stamp Show' around the top, and 'July 24, 1992 / Columbus, Ohio 43216' at the bottom.

Mistral

This First Day Cover features a black-and-white cachet with a pixelated or cross-stitch design of a wildflower plant on the left side. The stamp, located in the upper right, is a 29-cent issue depicting a pink Herb Robert flower with green leaves on a black background, designed by Steve Buchanan. The postmark is a circular, pictorial cancellation from Columbus, Ohio, dated July 24, 1992, featuring an illustration of wildflowers. The envelope text includes 'Wildflowers of America' and 'TECHNICAL • FDOI • 9206.'

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