Claude
The cachet features a maroon/red illustration of Columbus's sailing ships (caravels) on the ocean, with the text 'Postal Administration Day' in elegant script. A small vignette in the lower left shows a portrait (likely Columbus) alongside a globe. The stamp is a 29-cent World Columbian Stamp Expo '92 issue depicting a detail of a U.S. 1869 stamp with colonial-era figures in blue. The pictorial cancel shows a stamp-within-a-stamp design with 'World Columbian Stamp Expo '92' and 'Postal Administration Day / May 25, 1992' text.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a red ArtCraft cachet with Christopher Columbus's three caravels sailing on a stylized ocean, with a script title 'Postal Administration Day' and a small portrait of Columbus with a globe at the lower left. The 29-cent stamp depicts colonial-era figures in blue, replicating the design from the 1869 U.S. stamp issue. The cover is canceled with a black pictorial postmark showing a stamp-within-a-stamp design, dated May 25, 1992. The postmark is circular and includes the text 'World Columbian Stamp Expo '92' and 'Postal Administration Day' around the edge. The envelope is in excellent condition with clear, legible text and artwork.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
