COVER N. 728 - USA 

Postmark: Boston 2026 World Expo Stamp Collectors Day - Station Boston MA 02205 25.05.2026

Posted on the 10th April;  Received on the 8th June 2026

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Turns out that the Boston Postcard was just an apetiser for the several fantastic covers that Ravi most kindly and generously sent me from the Boston 2026 World Expo. Bohoma Sthuthi, Ravi. Truly appreciated it.

First one was this cover on a prepaid envelope with a printed USA Forever stamp:

 The "World Stamp Show", which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, from the 23 to the 30 May was one of the events integrated in the celebrations of the 250th Anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America.

Previously to the show, on 14 August, USPS issued a  couple of terrific in-taglio printed "Forever" stamps to promote this important philatelic event and also to celebrate the country's anniversary.

According to USPS, the stamps, which when closely analysed exhibit a very fine 3D appearance, were created as replica vintage engravings so as to celebrate the stamps issued in the 19th and the early years of the 20th century, and they are illustrated with images of  the Old North Church, which is oldest church building in existence in Boston, as it appeared during the American Revolution, and of a  “Midnight rider”  galloping with a lantern in one hand, so as to light his way.

These are both symbols of the American revolution for lanterns in the bell tower of the  Church, there placed momentaneously, at the request of Paul Revere, on the night of April 18, 1775, warned patriots of the movements of the British troops.

Paul Revere himself was one of  the "midnight riders" (and the most famous of them all), evoked in one of the stamps, these being patriots dispatched to warn fellow revolutionaries of the whereabouts of the British troops, prior to the first battles of the American revolution: Lexington and Concord, which took place on the 19th April.

The Postmark was applied at the Expo on the 25th May at the "Stamp collectors' day" postmarking station.