National Postal Museum Opening – Good Humor Ice Cream Cachet

This First Day Cover commemorates the opening of the National Postal Museum on July 30, 1993, with a creative blue-stamped Good Humor Ice Cream Station cachet by Technical Cachets. The cover features a 29-cent aviation-themed stamp (Scott 2781) depicting an aviator portrait with locomotive and automobile, cancelled with the pictorial museum opening cancel. The reverse displays interesting philatelic markings including historical back-dated postmarks from 1957 and 1964, plus an Anchorage meter strip, indicating this is a collector's study piece.

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Claude

The cachet features a blue rubber-stamp style design with ice cream blocks and the text 'Good [humor?] Ice Cream' along with 'Ice Cream Station, Washington, DC 20066,' referencing the National Postal Museum opening on July 30, 1993. The stamp is a 29-cent USA issue depicting an aviator portrait with a locomotive and early automobile in the background, tied with a blue 'National Postal Museum Opening July 30, 1993' pictorial cancellation. Multiple additional postmarks appear on the left including Washington DC Sep 14 1992, Meadville PA Feb 28 1957, Charlotte & Kingstree HPO Jun 1 1964, and a $0.52 meter strip from Anchorage AK dated Jan 24, 1993. A handwritten notation reads 'Technical Cachets' at the bottom left.

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This First Day Cover features a blue cachet with artwork depicting a stylized Good Humor ice cream bar and the text 'Good Humor Ice Cream' in bold letters. The stamp is a 29-cent aviation-themed issue (Scott #2781) with a portrait of an aviator and images of a locomotive and automobile. The cover includes a large pictorial cancellation commemorating the opening of the National Postal Museum on July 30, 1993. Additional postmarks include historical circular cancellations from 1957 (Bradville, PA) and 1964 (Charlotte & Kingstreet, PA), as well as a 1992 printed postage meter strip from Anchorage, HK. The cover is in good condition with clear, legible markings.

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