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Organizations, Honors and Races
All Aviation and Space
Women Pilots
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Harriet Quimby
| This is an unknown cachet.
The illustration appears to have been printed onto the envelope and then hand water-colored. |
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| This is an Empress Cachet.
The insert reads: "You have just purchased a limited production, investment quality Empress Cachet. Original design Handcrafted, Hot paper embossed. Foiled and Thermographed. Empress Cachets, 3590 Hillview Dr., SE Salem, Or, 973012
It features Harriet's name in gold foil, an illustration surrounded by gold foil (which the scan does not do justice) and is 161/208 produced.
The illustration depicts Quimby in her classic flying outfit, but the aircraft is anachronistic (compare the craft to the actual one she flew, on the stamp itself.) |
Empress Cachet
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| This is a Colorano "Silk" Cachet.
It has Harriet Quimby's name at the top, and has a full color illustration, adapted from an actual photograph of Quimby in her classic flying suit, surrounded by gold foil (The appearance of which the scan does not do justice).
The insert, typewritten, is signed at the bottom in ink by Mary Fisher. It provides a very brief biography of Quimby. |
Colorano "silk" Cachet
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| The producer of this cachet is unknown.
It features a full-envelope watercolor illustration of Quimby in her plane (you can see her purple cowl) and looks absolutely gorgeous.
Signed by the artist, Fisher, and is 20/50 produced.
(If there was an insert giving more details of the cachet and its artist, it was not there when I purchased the cachet.) |
The producer of this cachet is unknown.
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| This is a Collins cachet.
The text points out Quimby was the first woman to fly the English Channel (21 miles across Strait of Dover). Also commemorates Operation Desert Storm - first women pilots in combat (two helicopters in the bottom right hand corner.
The insert, typewritten, is signed at the bottom in ink by Mary Fisher. It provid. |
Collins Cachet
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| The producer of this cachet is Fleetwood.
It features a colorized version of a vintage photo of Quimby wearing a 1910s-vintage dress. Below that, the scene of her having landed on the French shore in her purple flying outfit.
On the back of the envelope is a two-column brief summary of her career.
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The producer of this cachet is Fleetwood.
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Cachets
| This is a Smithsonian Institution Cachet.
This is the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum Milestones of Flight Commemorative Series Number 42, 65th Anniversary of the First US woman to obtain FAI Certificate, Harriet Quimby on August 21, 1911 |
Smithsonian Institution Cachet
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