United States 1973 Souvenir Card - COMPEX CHICAGO

United States souvenir card for the 1973 COMPEX stamp exhibition in Chicago.  Shows the iconic $5 Columbian Exposition issue of 1893 (in block of four format) with face value removed.  (Includes original glassine overlay).  As scanned.

[F.Y.I:  these Souvenir Cards are official reproductions, distributed by the US Postal Service (or its predecessors, the US Post Office Department; or Bureau of Engraving & Printing) at specific stamp gatherings.  Most bear official reproductions of previously issued postage stamps but with designs enlarged or altered by, for example, exclusion of the original face value or part of the inscriptions such as country name or the words Postage, Revenue etc.  The stamps reproduced are imperforate and of no postal validity].

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Michael Wigmore

Professional Philatelist