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Ted Key autographed a 1972 First Day Cover commemorating the National Parks Centennial and added an original ink sketch of his famed comic character Hazel. Key has signed in blue ink beside the drawing, adding "and HAZEL," with the sketch dated "1/28/97."

The cover bears National Parks Centennial stamps with a Vienna, Virginia, June 26, 1972 first-day cancellation. The Artmaster cachet depicts Wolf Trap Farm in Virginia as part of the National Parks Series.

Fine condition.

Ted Key (1912–2008) was an American cartoonist and writer best known as the creator of Hazel, the sharp-witted domestic maid whose single-panel cartoon debuted in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943. The character became enormously popular and was later adapted into the long-running television sitcom Hazel, starring Shirley Booth.

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Includes a full letter of authenticity from JG Autographs, Inc.

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