1992 Barcelona Olympics & Seville Expo

First Day Cover featuring three French stamps issued May 29, 1992 in Paris: two 2.50F stamps depicting the French Pavilion at Seville with architectural designs, and one 2.50F Olympic stamp showing a silhouetted runner against Olympic rings in primary colors for the 1992 Barcelona Games. Three pictorial cancellations display the Marianne head portrait with Service Philatelique de la Poste Paris markings.

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Claude

This First Day Cover features three French stamps from 1992: two identical blue stamps (2.50F) depicting the French Pavilion at Seville with architectural line drawings, and a central colorful stamp showing a silhouetted runner against Olympic rings with bold primary colors (yellow, red, blue) for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Three circular pictorial cancellations are applied, each featuring a classical Marianne head portrait and reading 'SERVICE PHILATELIQUE DE LA POSTE · PARIS' dated 29 V 1992. The cover is plain white with no cachet artwork, in excellent condition.

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The cachet artwork on this First Day Cover is minimal, with no specific design elements beyond the printed text. The cover features three French stamps: two 2.50F stamps depicting the French Pavilion at the Seville Expo with architectural designs in blue, and one 2.50F stamp for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics showing a silhouetted runner against Olympic rings in primary colors. The postmarks are pictorial cancellations with the Marianne head portrait and text 'SERVI CE PHILATELIQUE DE LA POSTE PARIS 29 V 1992.' The cover is in good condition with clear stamp and postmark details.

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