This Artmaster cacheted First Day Cover features the United Nations 10¢ stamp issued May 6, 1974, reproducing a detail from Candido Portinari’s Brazilian Peace Mural. The cover is postmarked at United Nations, New York on the official first day of issue.
The mural, installed at UN Headquarters, celebrates the role of the arts in promoting peace and international understanding. Portinari, one of Brazil’s most important 20th-century artists, created the large-scale work as a gift to the United Nations, symbolizing cultural cooperation among member nations during the Cold War era.
The cachet illustrates the full mural scene with its dynamic figures and symbolic elements, while the stamp focuses on the central group of faces; both are printed in tones that echo the original artwork’s vibrant palette.
A fine addition for collectors of United Nations issues, art-on-stamps topicals, or Brazilian-related philately, this cover remains in excellent condition with a crisp strike of the distinctive UN postmark.
