{"product_id":"1968-lucy-stone-50-dorchester-ma-first-day-cover","title":"1968 Lucy Stone 50¢ Dorchester, MA First Day Cover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis First Day Cover features the 50¢ Lucy Stone stamp issued August 13, 1968, as part of the Prominent Americans series. The Art Craft cachet depicts a portrait of Stone within a dotted border alongside an illustration of her addressing an audience, with the postmark from Dorchester, Massachusetts, the city of her birth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucy Stone (1818-1893) was a pioneering American reformer and advocate for women's rights and abolition. She became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree and was a founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association, helping shape the early women's movement through her powerful oratory and newspaper, The Woman's Journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA notable detail is the cachet's inclusion of the \"First Day of Issue\" inscription and the Art Craft imprint, a hallmark of mid-20th-century U.S. FDC production. The stamp itself belongs to the Prominent Americans series, which honored influential figures across American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis cover is a fine addition for collectors of women's history, suffrage, or Prominent Americans topical FDCs, with crisp postmark and attractive cachet artwork enhancing its display value.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maple Springs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51392023724196,"sku":null,"price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/4713\/5908\/files\/20260623095310.jpg?v=1782775288","url":"https:\/\/maplespringsllc.com\/products\/1968-lucy-stone-50-dorchester-ma-first-day-cover","provider":"Maple Springs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}