{"product_id":"1967-alaska-purchase-8-sitka-ak-first-day-cover","title":"1967 Alaska Purchase 8¢ Sitka, AK First Day Cover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 1967 8¢ Alaska Purchase airmail First Day Cover features the centennial commemorative stamp postmarked in Sitka, Alaska on March 30, 1967. The stamp depicts a dramatic Northwest Coast totem pole design and was issued exactly 100 years after the United States acquired Alaska from Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Alaska Purchase, often called Seward’s Folly at the time, transferred 586,412 square miles of territory for $7.2 million—roughly two cents per acre. By 1967 the once-mocked acquisition had become a strategic and resource-rich state, making the centennial a point of national pride.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSitka was deliberately chosen for the first-day postmark because it was the site of the formal transfer ceremony on October 18, 1867. The cover bears the printed inscription “FIRST DAY OF ISSUE” and carries the 8¢ airmail denomination, reflecting the era’s postal rates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddressed to a collector in Guttenberg, New Jersey, the cover remains in clean, collectible condition with a crisp strike of the Sitka circular date stamp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA solid addition for collectors of U.S. airmail issues, Alaska history, or 1960s commemoratives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maple Springs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51388350988452,"sku":null,"price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/4713\/5908\/files\/20260623094801.jpg?v=1782236146","url":"https:\/\/maplespringsllc.com\/products\/1967-alaska-purchase-8-sitka-ak-first-day-cover","provider":"Maple Springs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}