Cherokee Strip Land Run 29¢ - OKPEX 93
First Day Cover from the Oklahoma City Stamp Club's OKPEX 93 philatelic event (April 30–May 2, 1993) featuring a 29-cent Cherokee Strip Land Run commemorative stamp (Scott 2754). The cover's dramatic black ink cachet depicts a rearing horse with a sepia vignette of the classic 6-cent Land Run stamp, celebrating the centennial of the 1893 Oklahoma territorial settlement. Hand-cancelled at Enid, Oklahoma on April 17, 1993.
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The cachet features a dramatic black ink illustration of a rider on a rearing horse, with a sepia-toned vignette of the classic Cherokee Strip 6-cent United States postage stamp showing horse-drawn wagons racing across the plains. Text on the left reads 'OKPEX Commemorates the 1893 Land Run' in bold typography. The bottom includes OKPEX 93 branding for the Oklahoma City Stamp Club event April 30–May 1-2, 1993. The stamp is a 29-cent USA Cherokee Strip Land Run 1893 commemorative showing riders and wagons in full color, cancelled with a circular hand postmark from Enid, OK dated April 17, 1993.
This First Day Cover commemorates the 1893 Land Run with a dramatic black ink cachet featuring a rearing horse and a rider in cowboy attire. The cachet includes a sepia vignette of the classic 6-cent Cherokee Strip stamp. The 29-cent stamp depicts a similar scene with a rider and wagon. The cover is hand-cancelled with a circular postmark from Enid, Oklahoma, dated April 17, 1993. The envelope is in excellent condition with clear, bold artwork and legible text.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)