This Art Craft First Day Cover features the 13¢ Alexander Graham Bell stamp issued March 10, 1976, in Boston, Massachusetts, to mark the centennial of the telephone. The cover bears the official first-day postmark and a detailed cachet showing Bell’s portrait alongside an early telephone transmitter and receiver.
Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 invention transformed global communication, replacing the telegraph with voice transmission over wires. By 1976 the telephone had become an essential part of daily life, and the U.S. Postal Service honored its centennial with this commemorative issue.
The cachet artwork highlights the original liquid-transmitter telephone Bell used in his historic first call, a detail collectors appreciate for its historical accuracy. The cover is addressed to Dr. Charles R. Martin in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
A clean, well-centered example with sharp postmark and attractive two-tone cachet, this FDC makes an excellent addition for collectors of inventors, communications history, or Art Craft cachets.
