Claude
The ArtCraft cachet features black-and-white illustrations of historic baseball stadiums including Yankee Stadium (1951) and Ebbets Field (1913), along with a baseball glove and bat motif. Five USA 34-cent stamps are affixed showing Fenway Park Boston, Comiskey Park Chicago, Shibe Park Philadelphia, Wrigley Field Chicago, and Forbes Field Pittsburgh in colorful vintage postcard style illustrations. Two circular machine cancellations from New York NY 10199 dated June 27, 2001 are applied, along with a 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' slug cancel. The cover is in excellent condition with clean, crisp imagery.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a black-and-white cachet illustrating historic baseball stadiums Yankee Stadium (1951) and Ebbets Field (1913), along with a baseball glove and bat. The cover includes five 34-cent USA stamps depicting Fenway Park, Comiskey Park, Shibe Park, Wrigley Field, and Forbes Field in vintage postcard style. The postmark is a circular 'First Day of Issue' cancellation from New York, NY, dated June 27, 2001. The text 'Baseball's Legendary Playing Fields' is prominently displayed on the cachet, along with the ArtCraft logo.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
