Claude
This cover features no traditional cachet artwork on the left side; instead, the pictorial cancellation itself serves as the visual element, depicting a three-masted sailing ship rendered in black ink. The stamp is the 29-cent World Columbian Stamp Expo '92 issue, featuring a detail of a U.S. 1869 stamp showing a historical scene with figures in period costume, with a gold, brown, and blue color scheme. The postmark is a pictorial machine cancel from Los Barcos Station, Corpus Christi, TX 78401, dated March 13, 1992. The cover is in excellent condition with no visible flaws.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features the 29-cent World Columbian Stamp Expo '92 issue (Scott 2616), depicting a detail from the historic 1869 stamp with a Columbus-era scene in gold, brown, and blue. The envelope has no cachet artwork but bears a pictorial machine cancellation from Los Barcos Station in Corpus Christi, Texas, dated March 13, 1992. The cancellation design includes a three-masted sailing ship in black ink. The cover is in clean condition with clear stamp and postmark details.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
