Claude
The cachet features a bold red single-color illustration of Wendell Willkie with both arms raised triumphantly, holding a hat in his right hand, in a campaign rally pose. The text 'WENDELL WILLKIE' appears in red above the artwork, with '3-B Cachets' noted in the lower left. The stamp is a 75-cent USA 'Great Americans' series definitive depicting Willkie's portrait with dates 1892-1944 and the word 'Statesman.' The postmark is a hand cancellation from Bloomington, IN dated February 16, 1992, with a machine 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' slogan cancel.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a bold red cachet illustration of Wendell Willkie in a triumphant campaign pose, arms raised and holding a hat. The 75-cent stamp from the Great Americans series depicts Willkie in a formal portrait with the text 'Wendell Willkie 1892-1944' and 'Statesman.' The postmark is a circular machine cancellation from Bloomington, Indiana, dated February 16, 1992, with a 'First Day of Issue' slogan. The cover is in clean, unaddressed condition.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
