This cover features the 32-cent Iwo Jima stamp (Scott #2765) honoring the Marines' flag-raising on February 23, 1945, paired with a local post cinderella stamp bearing the provocative dual message 'Japan surrenders 1945 / U.S. surrenders 1994.' Mailed from Clearwater, Florida to Patrick Tudor in Indianapolis, Indiana with a machine postmark, this cover combines iconic WWII Pacific history with an unconventional political statement typical of 1990s alternative postal issues.
Claude
This cover features two stamps: a 32-cent USA stamp depicting Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima (Feb. 23, 1945) with an orange/yellow background, and a local post stamp labeled 'Japan surrenders 1945' and 'U.S. surrenders 1994' with a red and white design suggesting a surrender scene. There is no traditional cachet artwork on the left side of the envelope. The cover is handwritten addressed to Patrick Tudor in Indianapolis, IN, with a return address printed for Mark Warda of Clearwater, FL. The postmark is a machine cancel but largely illegible.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features the 32-cent Iwo Jima stamp (Scott #2765) depicting the iconic flag-raising on Mount Suribachi by U.S. Marines during World War II. The stamp is paired with a 1994 local post cinderella stamp bearing the controversial message 'Japan surrenders 1945 / U.S. surrenders 1994' with imagery of a red surrender flag. The cover is addressed to Patrick Tudor in Indianapolis, Indiana, and includes a machine postmark from Clearwater, Florida. The envelope is plain with no cachet artwork.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
