Claude
The cachet features a black-and-white line drawing of a dancing couple in formal attire, framed by horizontal black bars with the text 'Broadway Musicals' above and 'TECHNICAL Cachets' below. The 29-cent stamp depicts a scene from Porgy and Bess, a Broadway folk opera, showing figures in warm earth tones with the title 'Porgy & Bess' printed on the stamp. The circular hand-cancel postmark reads 'New York, NY / JUL 14 1993 / 10199' with a 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' machine printed notation to the right. The cover appears to be in excellent, clean condition.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a black-and-white line art cachet depicting a man and woman in formal attire dancing, with the text 'Broadway Musicals' and 'TECHNICAL Cachets' printed above and below. The stamp showcases a scene from the folk opera 'Porgy and Bess' with three figures and the text 'PORGY & BESS' and 'EVILL DE BLOO' inscribed. The circular postmark reads 'NEW YORK, NY JUL 14 1993' and includes the text 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE'.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
