This Artmaster First Day Cover features the pair of 13¢ Christmas stamps issued October 27, 1976, in Boston, Massachusetts. The stamps reproduce Nathaniel Currier’s 1855 lithograph “Winter Pastime,” depicting ice skaters on a frozen pond.
Christmas stamps had become an annual U.S. Postal Service tradition by the mid-1970s, and the 1976 issue continued the popular Currier & Ives series that celebrated 19th-century American winter scenes.
The left-side cachet shows a young couple in period winter dress carrying an evergreen and a Yule log, complementing the stamp design. The circular Boston postmark and “FIRST DAY OF ISSUE” handstamp confirm its status as a genuine philatelic first-day cover.
A clean, well-centered example ideal for collectors of Christmas topicals, Currier & Ives imagery, or Artmaster cachets.
