This Art Craft cacheted First Day Cover features the 1967 8¢ Alaska Purchase commemorative stamp, postmarked on its first day of issue, March 30, 1967, in Sitka, Alaska.
The stamp marks the centennial of the 1867 treaty in which the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Negotiated by Secretary of State William H. Seward, the acquisition doubled the size of the nation and secured valuable natural resources and strategic Pacific territory.
The cachet illustrates the historic meeting between Seward and Russian Minister Baron Edouard de Stoeckl, with an inset portrait of Seward and a map highlighting the vast Alaska Territory.
Addressed to G. F. Bigelow in Alden, Iowa, the cover remains in clean, collectible condition with a clear Sitka postmark.
A strong addition for collectors of U.S. territorial history, Art Craft cachets, or Alaskan postal history.
