A Botswana P2 stamp from the 1991 African Tourism Year series, featuring vibrant wildlife imagery including elephants, a crocodile, flamingos, an eagle, and an airplane over wetlands. The cover bears a blue pictorial cancellation from the World Columbian Stamp Exposition in Chicago, dated May 22, 1992, with the stamp retaining its selvage margins showing plate numbers.
Claude
Plain white envelope with no cachet artwork. The stamp is a Botswana P2 value from the 1991 African Tourism Year series, depicting wildlife including elephants, a crocodile, a bird of prey perched on a branch, flamingos, and an airplane over a wetland landscape. The stamp retains its selvage margin with plate numbers 207 and 208 visible. The cancellation is a blue circular pictorial handstamp reading 'PARTICIPATION * BOTSWANA * CHICAGO AT W.C.S.E. '92 * MAY 22-31' with a globe and stamp vignette design, applied at the World Columbian Stamp Exposition in Chicago.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a Botswana P2 stamp depicting a vibrant wildlife scene with elephants, a crocodile, flamingos, an eagle, and an airplane flying over wetlands, part of the 1991 African Tourism Year series. The cover has no cachet artwork, with a plain white envelope. The stamp is canceled with a blue pictorial postmark from the World Columbian Stamp Exposition in Chicago, dated May 22, 1992. The postmark includes the text 'Participation Botswana at Chicago W.C.S.E. '92' and a globe design. The stamp retains its selvage margins with plate numbers visible.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
