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Commemoration: North Italy's first post-WW2 Philatelist Convention in 1946 (EE1)
Commemoration: North Italy's first post-WW2 Philatelist Convention in 1946 (EE1)
Commemoration: North Italy's first post-WW2 Philatelist Convention in 1946 (EE1)
Commemoration: North Italy's first post-WW2 Philatelist Convention in 1946 (EE1)

Commemoration: North Italy's first post-WW2 Philatelist Convention in 1946 (EE1)

$ 15.04

Availability: 76 in stock
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Era: Post-War 1940s
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Postage Condition: Posted - excellent stamps + postmarks
  • Type: Commemorative Postcard
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Condition: Philatelic Postcard maintained in reasonably good condition - Very clear postmarks over well-adhered stamps - Historical significance - Neatly written by Victor Perantoni.
  • Features: Post-war historical significance
  • Cartoline Filateliche Italiane: Postcards Italian philately
  • Postcards Italy Philatelic: Cartoline Filateliche Italia
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Italy
  • Region: Commemorative of Italy
  • Modified Item: No

    Description

    MANIFESTAZIONE FILATELICA MANTOVANA 1946
    To make a historical record of this extraordinary stamp-show Victor Perantoni wrote this postcard and mailed it across town to himself using expensive Airmail stamps of the new Italian Republic.
    Event held on
    5+6 OCTOBER 1946
    for the
    First Post-War Philatelist Convention
    in Mantova, Italy (my birth town).
    This postcard was written by Victor (Vittorio) Perantoni to himself, addressed to our family's wine-exporting business office in Mantova (Mantua) northern Italy.  The cash-registers of our family Cafe' & Wine Bottling shop, and the cash drawers at their exporting business office were the origin of our store's fascist and pre-fascist coins that had become worthless due to Italy's defeat from WW2 in the previous year.  But now, in the 21st century, those coins have become valuable once again, as we sell them here in our family eBay store named
    Victor Perantoni.
    Note the two stamps that Victor Perantoni used to mail this postcard.  They're Italy's first two Airmail stamps authorized by the Allied Military Government soon after King Victor Emmanuel III had been deposed, and Italy became a
    sovereign
    Republic in June '46.
    To mail this postcard
    across town (Mantova
    ) Victor Perantoni used these two expensive Airmail stamps because of their post-war historical significance:
    "
    A handshake of friendship in the new age of jet propulsion
    - and - P
    eaceful birds over the
    Mediterranean
    sea
    ."
    Quite a contrast from Mussolini's bellicose fascist stamps of previous years.
    Please visit our family eBay Store named
    "
    Victor Perantoni
    "
    ... collector of worldwide stamps and coins.
    https://www.ebay.com/str/thewaroflionsfilmandphilately