Claude
The hand-colored cachet features a cheerful yellow cartoon chick or duck standing among pink flowers and green foliage, rendered in a whimsical illustrative style with colored pencil or marker. The stamp is the 29-cent USA Lilac from the Garden Flowers series, depicting a cluster of purple lilac blossoms with green leaves. The postmark is a standard circular date stamp (CDS) machine cancel from Spokane, WA dated May 15, 1993, with a 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' slogan cancel. The reverse bears a decorative 'Heather' name label with a floral border in blue ink.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a whimsical hand-colored cachet with a cheerful yellow duck standing among pink flowers and green foliage. The stamp depicts purple lilac blossoms with green leaves and is cancelled with a circular postmark from Spokane, WA, dated May 15, 1993. The text 'FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' is printed on the cover, and the reverse bears a decorative 'Heather' name label with a blue floral border. The cover is in excellent condition.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
