Wildflowers Ceremony Program – Columbus, OH 1992

Official USPS First Day Ceremony Program booklet for the 1992 Wildflowers stamp issue, featuring a full-color cachet of a desert wildflower meadow with pink, yellow, and white blooms against a mountain backdrop. The multi-page souvenir program includes ceremony details and two pairs of 29-cent Wildflowers stamps (Standing Cypress & Wild Flax, Stream Violet & Bluets) with hand-cancel postmark dated July 24, 1992 from Columbus, OH.

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Claude

This is an official USPS Wildflowers First Day Ceremony Program, a multi-page souvenir booklet rather than a traditional envelope FDC. The front cover (Image 1) features a full-color photographic cachet of a desert wildflower meadow with pink, yellow, and white blooms against a mountain backdrop, with 'Wildflowers' in large yellow script and 'First Day of Issue / July 24, 1992 / Columbus, OH' printed in the lower right. Images 2 and 3 show the interior program pages listing ceremony participants, along with two pairs of USA 29-cent Wildflowers stamps affixed and cancelled: Standing Cypress & Wild Flax (Image 2), and Stream Violet & Bluets (Image 3). The circular hand-cancel postmark reads 'Columbus, OH / July 24 / 1992 / 43216.'

Mistral

This First Day Cover ceremony program features a vibrant cachet with a desert wildflower meadow scene, including pink, yellow, and white blooms against a mountain backdrop. The program includes details of the ceremony held in Columbus, OH, on July 24, 1992, with two pairs of 29-cent Wildflowers stamps (Standing Cypress & Wild Flax, Stream Violet & Bluets) affixed and canceled with a hand-stamped postmark. The condition of the cover is excellent, with clear and legible text and artwork.

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