This official first-day cover features the 1974 10¢ Rural America stamp honoring the centennial of Kansas Hard Winter Wheat. The ArtCraft cachet depicts a modern combine harvester at work and is postmarked Hillsboro, Kansas on August 16, 1974.
The stamp commemorates the 1874 introduction of hard winter wheat to the United States, a development that transformed agriculture across the Great Plains and established Kansas as a leading wheat-producing state. The design shows a Kansas wheat field with a harvest train, underscoring the crop’s economic importance during America’s bicentennial era.
Issued as part of the Life in Rural America series, the cover’s cachet highlights both the historical milestone and contemporary farming technology. The cover was mailed to Dr. Charles R. Martin in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
A well-preserved philatelic item ideal for collectors of U.S. agriculture topicals, ArtCraft cachets, or 1970s first-day covers.
