USA 29¢ Flag Stamp with Olympic Torch Cancel, 1992

This cover features the USA 29-cent Flag stamp (Scott #2278) with two waving American flags in red, white, and blue. The pictorial machine cancel depicts an Olympic torch surrounded by radiating stars, applied by the U.S. Olympic Spirit Week Station in City of Industry, California on June 3, 1992, commemorating the Barcelona Summer Olympics. The envelope is plain white with no cachet artwork, showing minor yellowing consistent with age.

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This is a plain white envelope with no cachet artwork — the front is blank except for the stamp and postmark. The stamp is the USA 29-cent Flag stamp featuring two waving American flags in red, white, and blue. The cancellation is a pictorial machine cancel depicting an Olympic torch with radiating stars surrounding it, applied by the U.S. Olympic Spirit Week Station in City of Industry, CA 91715, dated June 3, 1992. The envelope shows minor yellowing and light soiling.

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This First Day Cover features the USA 29-cent Flag stamp (Scott #2278) with two waving American flags in red, white, and blue. The cover has a plain white background with no cachet artwork. The postmark is a pictorial machine cancellation depicting an Olympic torch surrounded by radiating stars, applied by the U.S. Olympic Spirit Week Station in City of Industry, California on June 3, 1992. The envelope shows minor yellowing consistent with age.

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