This First Day Cover features a striking digital-era cachet with a pixelated wildflower design in black and white dot-matrix style, complementing the 29-cent Yellow Skunk Cabbage stamp from the 1992 Wildflowers of America series. The cover was postmarked on July 24, 1992, in Columbus, Ohio, marking the first day of issue for this botanical commemorative. The Technical FDOI cachet maker advertised a limited-edition wildflowers album, capturing a moment when computer graphics and traditional philately intersected.
Claude
The cachet features a pixelated/digitized black and white artwork depicting a wildflower plant, rendered in a dot-matrix or early computer graphic style against a dark background with white dots. The stamp is a 29-cent USA issue depicting Yellow Skunk Cabbage with orange and green coloring on a dark background, part of the Wildflowers of America series. The postmark is a standard circular machine cancellation from Columbus, OH dated July 24, 1992, with 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' slug. Additional text on the cover advertises a limited-edition $21.95 album available at post offices or by mail order.
Mistral
The cachet features a black and white dot-matrix illustration of a wildflower, reflecting early digital art styles. The stamp depicts a yellow skunk cabbage flower with vibrant yellow and green colors and is labeled 'USA 29 Wildflowers of America.' The circular postmark reads 'Columbus, OH July 24, 1992' with a clear ZIP code. The text on the cachet includes 'Wildflowers of America,' 'TECHNICAL FDOI 9206,' and an advertisement for a limited-edition album. The cover is in clean condition with no visible damage.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
