Porgy & Bess Broadway Musicals First Day Cover

This First Day Cover celebrates the 1993 Broadway Musicals stamp series featuring Gershwin's iconic folk opera 'Porgy & Bess.' The Technical Cachets cover features an elegant black-and-white line drawing of a dancing couple, perfectly complementing the colorful stamp image depicting two figures in an embrace from the opera. Postmarked July 14, 1993, from New York, NY, this cover honors one of America's most celebrated and influential theatrical works.

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The cachet features a black-and-white line drawing of a couple dancing, framed by horizontal rules, with 'Broadway Musicals' printed above and 'TECHNICAL Cachets' below. The stamp is a 29-cent U.S. issue depicting a colorful painted scene from the opera 'Porgy & Bess,' showing two figures in an embrace against a colorful background, with 'PORGY & BESS' printed on the stamp. The postmark is a standard circular cancellation from New York, NY dated July 14, 1993, ZIP 10199, accompanied by a printed 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' slug. The cover is in excellent condition with no visible flaws.

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