Claude
The cachet features hand-drawn pen-and-ink portrait illustrations of Barack Obama and Joseph Biden flanked by American flags in red, white, and blue, with gold text reading 'Inauguration Day' and 'January 20, 2009' surrounding the portraits. A circular Obama-Biden campaign logo appears at the bottom center of the cachet artwork. The stamp is a USA 42-cent American flag definitive issue (2008). The pictorial machine cancellation includes a silhouette of the U.S. Capitol dome and reads 'Inauguration Day Station, Honolulu, Hawaii 96820' dated January 20, 2009.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a detailed cachet with pen-and-ink portraits of Barack Obama and Joseph Biden, flanked by red, white, and blue American flags. The text 'Inauguration Day' and 'January 20, 2009' are prominently displayed in gold and black, with the Obama-Biden campaign logo below. The stamp is a USA 42-cent flag definitive, and the postmark is a pictorial machine cancellation with the U.S. Capitol dome silhouette, dated January 20, 2009. The cover is in excellent condition.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
