UWMPSEX '87 Space Exploration Cover with Flag & Fireworks Stamp

First Day Cover from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Philatelic Society's 1987 exhibit (UWMPSEX '87) featuring a striking NASA worm logo cachet with Space Shuttle imagery. The cover bears a 22-cent Flag with Fireworks stamp (Scott #2276) cancelled with a pictorial cancellation showing the UWM campus skyline, dated December 5, 1987 in Milwaukee.

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Light blue envelope featuring a bold dark blue NASA 'worm' logo cachet with a Space Shuttle orbiter illustration on the left and what appears to be a rocket engine or booster component on the right. Text reads 'UWMPSEX '87 / DEC. 5-6, 1987' in the upper left and 'HONORING AMERICAN SPACE EXPLORATION / PHILATELIC SOCIETY AT UWM' along the bottom. The stamp is a 22-cent USA Flag and Fireworks commemorative, and the pictorial cancellation is circular featuring a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus skyline with 'UWMPSEX 87 STATION / Milwaukee WI 53202 / DEC 5, 1987' text.

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The cachet artwork features a bold blue NASA worm logo with a detailed illustration of a Space Shuttle orbiter and an astronaut in a spacesuit, honoring American space exploration. The stamp is a 22-cent Flag with Fireworks design (Scott #2276), and the postmark is a pictorial cancellation depicting the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus skyline, dated December 5, 1987. The text on the cover reads 'UWMPSEX '87 DEC. 5-6, 1987', 'HONORING AMERICAN SPACE EXPLORATION', and 'PHILATELIC SOCIETY AT UWM'. The cover is in good condition with clear, vibrant colors.

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