A couple of bearded and/or moustachioed men on this envelope sent by Fabienne (France), arrived exactly a month ago.
Stamp issued in 1963, dedicated to
Giusseppe Mazzini, belonging to the series
Great Men of the EEC. Rome in the background of the stamp: the Via Appia and the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius.
Henri Rouart, was a French engineer, industrialist, painter and collector. He invented, among other things, the tubes of the Paris pneumatic post network, a system for the rapid delivery of mail in Paris in cylindrical boxes propelled by compressed air in an underground network of pipes. His friend
Edgar Degas painted him in 1871. The stamp was issued ion 11 April 2022.
Inside of the envelope I found a third man who could fit in this post:
Gustave Geffroy, a French journalist, art critic, historian and novelist, painted by
Paul Cézanne in 1895.
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Mazzini doesn't look terribly happy, does he? I have a great memory of seeing his tomb in Genoa. Three beards in one post - how timely :)
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't, alas.
DeletePneumatic post network, that intrigued me. Apparently there was 300 miles of it, wow.
ReplyDeleteI've read somewhere that it was quite noisy, but efficient.
DeleteGreat stamps!
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