FREE: Houdini, Handcuffs, In Memory, Signature

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A GREAT GIN price at 3,000 please read!

Here is another great cover with a lot going on it!
Please read and then view photos....

FDC First Day of Issue
Commemerative Cachet
Very colorful
Intense look on Houdini's face
Reads IN MEMORY OF
Magician - Escapologist
Harry Houdini 1874 - 1926
By PREMIER CACHETS - HOUSTON

Image of Houdini, the magic trick where he is inside and upside down in locked water case,
Also shows chains and lock, a bell, him holding playing cards, him wrapped in chains, individual playing cards behind the whole scene, a crane for what ever magic trick he needed it for (the machinery not the bird LOL)

Also reads After Fifty Years.
All of the above just in the cachet image on the left!!!

Between the coloful cachet and the postage stamps shows hand cuffs and inside the left reads: First day of use, and the right handcuff: Oct. 31, 1976

Moving on to the stamp area, there are two stamps on this. The 6.3 with what appears to look like a bell ringing and the other stamp is 7.9 BULK RATE with drum, drum sticks with image of eagle reads: BEAT THE DRUM FOR LIBERTY AND THE SPIRIT OF 76 with DETROIT cancel perfectly centered between both stamps!

Then on the backside flap: Designed by John J. Hendler
Lithographed in the U.S.A. by
The Premier Company
Houston

With in blue ink, hand written signature of Houdini and
under his signature reads: (His true signature circa 1905)
WOW! See all photos for condition, all excellent but some discolor on gum /glue backside where the folds seal.

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