7-1/2" X 11" Comical FDC # 5008a US Coast Guard by Hideaki Nakano

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Comical FDC EARTH COAST GUARD 7-1/2" X 11" FDC # 5008a US Coast Guardby Hideaki Nakano, HN Local Post Combination of stamps and cancellationsHideaki Nakano was a philatelic cover artist during the years of 1980 and 1988. He produced a large range of different cover designs with many themes: humorous, bizarre, protest, political commentary and more. Many were constructed to have a function, movable to expose additional information and or have a 3 D "pop-up" fashion.One of his many specialties was the use of origami. His covers were hand colored, stamped with his family mark in red and signed by the artist.His covers also incorporated the use of first day cancelations. His first US FDC was for the Coral Reefs stamps (Aug. 1980) and with the Everett Dirksen stamp (Dec. 1980), he started numbering his covers and using the designation "H.N. Local Post (HNLP). Most of the stamps used were also had a perfin HN cancellation.