Wildflowers of America - Bunchberry, Columbus Quincentenary
This striking First Day Cover features a pixel-art cachet depicting wildflowers in a modernist black-and-white style, commemorating the 1992 Wildflowers of America series. The 29-cent Bunchberry stamp showcases delicate white flowers against a dark background, while the pictorial postmark from Columbus, Ohio honors the quincentenary of Columbus's voyage with an image of his sailing ship. Postmarked July 24, 1992, at the A.F.D.C.S. Convention Station, this cover elegantly merges botanical and historical themes.
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The cachet features a black-and-white pixel/mosaic-style artwork depicting wildflowers, printed in a square black frame on the left side of the envelope, with 'Wildflowers of America' printed below in script and 'TECHNICAL•FDOI•9206' beneath that. The stamp depicts Bunchberry (white flowers with green leaves on a black background), a 29-cent USA stamp from the 1992 Wildflowers of America series. The postmark is a pictorial cancellation featuring a sailing ship (Columbus's vessel, referencing the 1992 quincentenary), dated July 24, 1992, from Columbus, Ohio 43216, at the A.F.D.C.S. Convention Station.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)