This official First Day Cover features the 13¢ U.S. stamp issued March 23, 1977, in Washington, DC, marking the Centennial of Sound Recording. The colorful cachet depicts Thomas Edison alongside his original phonograph, a vinyl record, cassette tape, and an Edison Gold Moulded Record cylinder.
Edison’s 1877 invention of the phonograph was the first device capable of both recording and reproducing sound, launching the entire recorded-sound industry. The stamp and cachet celebrate a full century of that breakthrough, which forever changed music, education, broadcasting, and everyday life.
A notable detail is the cachet’s timeline of recording formats, visually linking Edison’s tinfoil cylinder to mid-20th-century media. The cover is an official first-day issue with a crisp Washington, DC, postmark.
A fine addition for collectors of inventors, music history, or classic U.S. commemoratives, this well-preserved FDC displays beautifully and pairs nicely with related phonograph or technology topicals.
