This Official First Day Cover features the 13¢ Alexander Graham Bell stamp issued March 10, 1976, and postmarked in Boston, Massachusetts on the first day of issue. The colorful cachet commemorates the Telephone Centennial, highlighting Bell’s invention of the telephone in 1876.
The stamp and cachet celebrate one hundred years of telephone service, recognizing Bell’s pivotal role in transforming global communication. Boston holds special significance as the city where Bell conducted much of his early work and demonstrated the telephone.
The cachet artwork includes a dramatic scene of Bell demonstrating an early telephone, a formal group portrait of telephone pioneers, and a formal portrait of the inventor himself, all framed in a distinctive blue border.
A fine addition for collectors of communications history, inventors, or U.S. commemorative issues, this well-preserved FDC displays excellent centering and a clear first-day cancel.
