National Postal Museum with Good Humor Ice Cream Cachet

This First Day Cover features the 1993 National Postal Museum stamp (Scott 2779) showing Benjamin Franklin, with a blue rubber-stamp cachet depicting a Good Humor ice cream bar. Created by Technical Cachets, this multi-cancel cover includes the primary July 30, 1993 National Postal Museum opening cancel in Washington, DC, along with auxiliary cancellations from Meadville PA (1957), Charlotte & Kingstree HPO (1964), and an Anchorage meter strip (1993), making it a notable example of a collector's multi-cancel presentation piece.

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Claude

This cover features a blue rubber-stamp cachet depicting a Good Humor ice cream bar with the text 'Good Humor Ice Cream' and 'Ice Cream Station • Washington, DC 20066'. The stamp is the 29¢ National Postal Museum issue (1993) depicting Benjamin Franklin against a background of postal history imagery. The cover bears multiple cancellations including a Washington DC machine cancel dated Sep 14, 1992, a Meadville PA cancel dated Feb 28, 1957, a Charlotte & Kingstree HPO cancel dated Jun 1, 1964, and a blue pictorial cancel reading 'National Postal Museum Opening • July 30, 1993'. A meter strip from Anchorage, AK dated Jan 24, 1993 is also present. The notation 'Technical Cachets' appears in handwriting at lower left.

Mistral

This First Day Cover features a blue rubber-stamp cachet of a Good Humor ice cream bar on the left side, with the text 'ICE CREAM' in bold blue letters. The stamp is the 1993 National Postal Museum issue, Scott #2779, depicting Benjamin Franklin in a brownish-gray portrait. The cover includes multiple postmarks: a primary pictorial cancellation for the National Postal Museum opening on July 30, 1993, in Washington, DC, along with auxiliary postmarks from Meadville, PA (Sep 14, 1992), Charlotte & Kingstree, SC (Jun 1, 1964), and an Anchorage, AK meter strip (Jan 24, 1993). The condition appears good, with clear and legible postmarks.

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