Red Maids Wildflowers of America, Columbus OH 1992
This First Day Cover celebrates the Red Maids (Calandrinia ciliata) stamp from the 1992 Wildflowers of America series, featuring vivid pink-magenta flowers with yellow centers. The Technical cachet displays computer-generated pixelated artwork of a wildflower plant, complementing the botanical theme and promoting a 64-page Wildflowers Album. The cover was postmarked in Columbus, Ohio on July 24, 1992, marking the official first day of issue.
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The cachet features a pixelated/dot-matrix style black and white artwork of a wildflower plant, created in a technical computer-generated aesthetic. Below the artwork is the text 'Wildflowers of America' in script and 'TECHNICAL•FDO1•9206' in block letters. The stamp depicts Red Maids (Calandrinia ciliata), showing vivid pink/magenta flowers with yellow centers against a black background, denominated USA 29 cents. The postmark is a circular machine cancel from Columbus, OH dated July 24, 1992, with 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' slugline, and additional printed text promotes a 64-page Wildflowers Album featuring 50 mint stamps.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)