This First Day Cover features a horizontal pair of 6.3¢ Liberty Bell definitive stamps, canceled with a crisp circular postmark dated October 1, 1974, in Washington, DC.
The Liberty Bell, cast in 1752 and famously associated with the reading of the Declaration of Independence, served as a potent national symbol during the American Bicentennial era when this stamp was released.
The envelope carries the printed legend “FIRST DAY OF ISSUE” directly beneath the stamps, confirming its status as an official first-day cancellation rather than a later-used example.
A clean, attractive addition for collectors of U.S. definitives, American symbols, or mid-1970s postal history.
