Tour du Pont Cycling Event - Nellysford, VA 1992
This postal card features a striking black silhouette of a road bicycle as cachet artwork, paired with a USA 19-cent American flag postal card (Scott UX170). The cover bears two pictorial cancellations from May 15, 1992: one from Wintergreen Station in Nellysford, VA, and another commemorating Tour du Pont, America's Premier Cycling Event, making it a notable piece of sports event philately.
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This postal card features a black silhouette illustration of a road bicycle as the cachet artwork, with no cachet maker attribution visible. The stamp is a USA 19-cent American flag postal card imprint (pre-printed indicia) showing the flag in red, white, and blue. The pictorial cancellation includes two circular postmarks: one for 'Wintergreen Station, Nellysford, VA 22958' with a compass rose/star design, and one reading 'Tour du Pont • America's Premier Cycling Event' dated May 15, 1992. Copyright notice '© USPS 1991' appears in the lower left.
This First Day Cover features a black silhouette of a road bicycle as the cachet artwork on the left side. The stamp is a 19-cent American flag design (Scott UX170). There are two pictorial postmarks: one from Wintergreen Station in Nellysford, VA, with a compass rose design, and another commemorating the Tour du Pont cycling event, dated May 15, 1992. The cover is in excellent condition with clear, legible impressions.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)