Description

This is the official 1974 Peter Max First Day Cover album: a black pebbled landscape binder with the artist’s iconic gold-foil silhouette logo, wavy mop-top hair and mustache, centered on the cover. No other cover text is needed; the gold Max profile is the brand. Inside are Official First Day Covers for the Expo ’74 Preserve the Environment stamp issue from Spokane, Washington, produced with Fleetwood.

Covers in the photos include Man & Water (sailboat and sun over water), Man & The Air (soaring bird), and Man & Nature (running figure amid psychedelic floral clouds), with each marked “a peter max original,” Preserve the Environment, Official First Day Cover, and the red Fleetwood script. Matching 10-cent Expo ’74 Preserve the Environment stamps are cancelled SPOKANE, WA, APR 18, 1974, with FIRST DAY OF ISSUE bars. Reverse essays discuss Peter Max’s Expo ’74 waterfall-inspired imagery and note printing on recycled paper.

The album exterior looks clean with intact bright gold foil and sharp corners; covers appear bright, sharp-cornered, and color-strong with no heavy staining or creasing visible in the shots. A complete-feeling 1970s pop-art philatelic package tying Peter Max, Fleetwood, and the environmentally themed Spokane World’s Fair into one collectible presentation, these are great for Max fans, Expo ’74 collectors, and first-day cover specialists alike.