Bill Haley - Legends of American Music Series
First Day Cover celebrating Bill Haley from the 1993 Rock & Roll/Rhythm & Blues issue in the Legends of American Music series. Features a 29-cent stamp depicting Haley with guitar against a red background, with a blue cachet illustration of a performer at microphone. Postmarked June 16, 1993, in Santa Monica, California by Technical Cachets.
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The cachet features a blue ink illustration of a singer performing with a microphone, with 'Legends of American Music Series' banner in red and white at top, and 'Rock & Roll/Rhythm & Blues' in blue script. The stamp is a 29-cent US stamp depicting Bill Haley playing guitar against a red background, labeled 'Rock & Roll Singer, 1925-1981'. The postmark is a circular pictorial cancellation reading 'Rock & Roll / Rhythm & Blues' dated June 16, 1993. The return/cachet maker address reads 'Celebrations, Cleveland, OH 44101 / Santa Monica, CA 90401' with a guitar illustration next to it.
This First Day Cover features a 29-cent stamp from the Legends of American Music series, depicting Bill Haley playing a guitar against a red background. The cachet artwork on the left side shows a blue silhouette of a performer at a microphone with the text 'Rock and Roll & Rhythm and Blues Musicians' in blue. The postmark is a pictorial cancellation with a guitar and hat, dated June 16, 1993, from Santa Monica, CA. The envelope text includes 'Celebrations' and the cachet maker 'Technical Cachets'.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)