This 1972 First Day Cover features the 8¢ Tom Sawyer stamp from the American Folklore Series, postmarked on October 13, 1972, in Hannibal, Missouri—the boyhood home of author Mark Twain and the first-day city.
The stamp and Art Craft cachet celebrate Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, iconic characters from Twain’s classic novels that captured 19th-century American life along the Mississippi River. The series honored enduring figures from U.S. folklore and literature.
The cachet depicts the famous whitewashing-the-fence scene with the quote “Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”—a memorable moment from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
A strong addition for collectors of American literature, Mark Twain, or the American Folklore Series, this cover displays clean strikes and attractive cachet artwork.
