Claude
The cachet features a hand-drawn illustration of a red stagecoach pulled by two brown horses with a driver and passengers, rendered in colored pencil or marker style. Three stamps are affixed: a US 10-cent '200 Years of Postal Service' stamp showing a truck and stagecoach, a USA 25-cent '20th Universal Postal Congress' stamp depicting a stagecoach in a desert landscape, and a USA 25-cent 'World Stamp Expo' stamp featuring a portrait. The primary postmark is a circular Washington DC machine cancel dated November 19, 1989 with ZIP 20066, accompanied by a 'First Day of Issue' slug. A second cancel appears on the World Stamp Expo stamp. The cover is in excellent condition with bold artwork and crisp cancellations.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a detailed cachet artwork of a red stagecoach drawn by four horses, rendered in colored pencil. The cover includes three stamps: a 10-cent stamp commemorating '200 Years of Postal Service,' a 25-cent stamp for the '20th Universal Postal Congress,' and a 25-cent stamp for the 'World Stamp Expo 89 Washington.' The circular postmark is machine-canceled, dated November 19, 1989, in Washington, DC. The printed text on the cover reads 'Classic Mail Transportation From the Past' and highlights the event and location. The condition of the cover appears excellent, with clear artwork and legible postmarks.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
