Baseball's Legendary Playing Fields #3510-3519, Block of 5
Artcraft First Day Cover from June 27, 2001 featuring a block of five 34-cent stamps depicting historic baseball stadiums: Ebbets Field, Tiger Stadium, Crosley Field, Yankee Stadium, and Polo Grounds. The black-and-white cachet artwork showcases Yankee Stadium (1951) and Ebbets Field (1913) with a baseball glove and ball. The cover bears hand-cancel and machine cancel postmarks from New York, NY.
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This ArtCraft First Day Cover features a black-and-white cachet depicting Yankee Stadium (1951) and Ebbets Field (1913) with a baseball glove and ball in the foreground. The cover bears a block of five USA 34-cent stamps depicting historic baseball stadiums: Ebbets Field (Brooklyn), Tiger Stadium (Detroit), Crosley Field (Cincinnati), Yankee Stadium (New York City), and Polo Grounds (New York City). Two circular hand-cancel postmarks from New York, NY 10199 dated June 27, 2001 are applied, along with a 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' machine cancel slug across the stamp block.
This First Day Cover features a black-and-white cachet artwork showcasing historic baseball stadiums Yankee Stadium (1951) and Ebbets Field (1913) with a baseball glove and ball. The cover includes a block of five 34-cent stamps depicting Ebbets Field, Tiger Stadium, Crosley Field, Yankee Stadium, and Polo Grounds. The cover has two postmarks: a hand-cancel and a machine-cancel, both from New York, NY, dated June 27, 2001. The text 'Baseball's Legendary Playing Fields' and 'Official First Day of Issue' is prominently displayed.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)