Claude
The ArtCraft cachet features a green monochrome illustration of a young child in winter attire admiring a rocking horse beneath a decorated Christmas tree, with 'Season's Greetings / Christmas 1978' printed below. A block of four 15-cent USA Christmas stamps is affixed, each depicting a child riding a rocking horse on a red background. The postmark is a circular hand cancel from Holly, MI dated October 18, 1978 with ZIP 48442, accompanied by a machine slogan cancel reading 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE.' The cover is in excellent condition with no visible faults.
Mistral
The cachet artwork depicts a green monochrome illustration of a child standing beside a rocking horse under a decorated Christmas tree, with a background of pine branches. The stamp block features four 15-cent USA Christmas stamps (Scott 1769), each showing a child riding a rocking horse on a red background. The postmark is a circular hand cancel from Holly, MI, dated October 18, 1978, with accompanying 'First Day of Issue' slogan machine cancel. The envelope text includes 'Season's Greetings' and 'Christmas 1978' in bold green lettering beneath the cachet.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
