A Pair of Framed Gill Craft Golf First Day of Issue Covers Bobby Jones and Babe Zaharias
A pair of professionally framed philatelic sports memorabilia items celebrating golf legends Robert Tyre Bobby Jones and Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Each piece features a cachet by artist Mary Anne Rice for Gill Craft. The Babe Zaharias item includes a portrait and illustration of the athlete with text stating she was voted Greatest Woman Athlete In The First Half Of The 20th Century. It is franked with an 18-cent United States postage stamp honoring Zaharias. The Bobby Jones item includes a portrait and illustration of the golfer with text identifying him as the Winner Of The Grand Slam Of Golf. It is franked with an 18-cent United States postage stamp honoring Jones. Both items are postmarked Pinehurst, North Carolina, September 22, 1981, with a First Day of Issue cancellation. The cachets are hand-signed by artist Mary Anne Rice and display the Gill Craft logo at the bottom left. The items are presented in matching wood-grain finish frames with gold-tone inner borders and green felt mats. Each frame reverse is stamped with the number 5672 and has handwritten notations.
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