Following up on this earlier post, and I am not sure how I missed it the first time...
This cachet was clearly created for the 1987 Canal Boat issue as shown in the FDC below. Comparing the stamp and the cachet confirms that as they are almost identical. It appears as if the cover with the Erie Canal stamp must have been created in 1987 as a mock up, or as the "cancel" says a sample of Ellis Animated FDCs.
