1992 Christmas Greetings Antique Toys Block of Four
This First Day Cover celebrates the 1992 Christmas Greetings stamps featuring beloved antique toys including a locomotive, horse pull-toy, steamboat, and fire engine. The cover's pixel-art style cachet depicts a festive Christmas tree with ornaments and gifts, reflecting the holiday theme of the 29-cent stamp series. Posted from Kansas City, Missouri on October 22, 1992, this Technical Cachets cover combines nostalgic toy imagery with vintage dot-matrix graphic design.
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The cachet features a pixel/dot-matrix style black ink illustration of a decorated Christmas tree with ornaments, a star topper, and wrapped gifts beneath it, with 'Happy Holidays' printed in bold black text at the bottom right. The cover bears a block of four 1992 Christmas Greetings stamps (29 cents each, USA) depicting antique toys: a locomotive, a horse and rider pull-toy, a paddlewheel steamboat, and a fire pumper wagon. The postmark is a standard circular date stamp from Kansas City, MO dated October 22, 1992, with ZIP code 64108, and includes a 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' machine cancel. The cover is in excellent condition with no visible faults.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)