Claude
The cachet features a simple black line-art illustration of an adult elephant and a baby elephant on the left side of the white envelope, with the text 'The CIRCUS' printed in a playful mixed-case font beneath them. The block of four 29-cent USA Circus stamps depicts four circus performers on a blue background: a clown (upper left), a ringmaster in red (upper right), an aerial acrobat (lower left), and a performing elephant with a clown rider (lower right), each labeled 'CIRCUS.' The postmark is a standard circular hand-applied cancellation from Washington, DC dated April 6, 1993, with ZIP code 20066, and includes a 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' slug cancellation across the stamps.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
