Whose (Patriotic) Cachet Is This?

Any collectors of "patriotic" covers here? Here is an FDC for Scott #2838d that somebody created with an older patriotic cover. The seller didn't identify the cachet maker, not that it really mattered: the cachet tickled my political sensibilities, and I collect covers for the WWII minisheets and individual stamps in the series with aircraft on them, like this one. So, here's the cover:



As I catalog this, I'd like to note the cachet maker, if anyone can help me identify who it was.

Basil

I guess, after 112 views and no response, that this goes into the database as "unknown."

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to identify your cachet, but I do have a few observations:

1. I don't think the cachet is necessarily a classic one from the FDR "New Deal" period.

2. The way the borders don't line up suggests the cachet was hastily produced.

3. The flag is entirely wrong, both in stars and stripes. Again, evidencing a hastily produced design.
(I would think the illustration of the flag would have been more accurate back in the day.)

I appreciate the observations. That may explain why it is so hard to identify. I am not familiar with cachets of the FDR/New Deal period. Were they ever as "anti" as this one?

I'd think as wt1 has alluded to....this wasn't produced by any well established cachet maker, I can't think of any that would care to take some partisan line such as that. It was the work of a local political group for their local PR purposes, and certainly not 1994. That's like being in 2014 and railing against the corruption excesses of the Harding administration. John

I'm thinking it is supposed to mimic a Minkus WWII era patriotic cover, but every Minkus cover I've seen was directed toward our enemies abroad, not perceived political enemies here in the US. As to when it was made, I understand how anachronistic it is to think it was produced in 1994, but if somebody was trying to mimic the covers of an earlier era, it could have been made at any time.

Well, it is curious.

blcjr I think the cachet actually is contemporary to the times. There were a lot of critics of the New Deal and it's more than likely that amateur cachet makers would have catered to them. There's nothing to suggest to me that it's a modern creation. The "glue bleeding" of the back of the envelope is also very typical of covers of this era (and not at all of modern envelopes).