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75c Vatican Gardens single
Object Details
- Description
- On May 31, 1933, Vatican City issued a set of eighteen stamps consisting of six different designs and a wide range of postal values, including special delivery stamps.
- Four of the stamps, Vatican Scott numbers 24-27, depict the Vatican Gardens and the dome of St. Peter's Basilica. This design includes the 30-centisimi (chocolate and black), 50-cent (chocolate and purple), 75-cent (chocolate and lake), and 80-cent (carmine and rose) values. The Vatican Gardens date from the pontificate of Nicholas III (1277-1280). These vertical stamps measure 2.5 x 3 cm.
- Engraver F. Schrinbock designed the stamps. The Italian State Printing Works, Rome, produced the stamps using the recess printing process. Perforations measure 14 x 14. The stamps contain the Crossed Keys of St. Peter watermark. The inscription Poste Vaticane appears on all eighteen stamps in this set.
- The Vatican withdrew the stamps from sale on February 28, 1947.
- References:
- "Vatikanstaat" in Michel Europa Katalog, band 3, Sudeuropa, Unterschleissheim, Germany: Schwanberger Verlag GMBH, 2008.
- "Vatican City" in Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue, part 8, Italy and Switzerland, 7th edition. Stanley Gibbons, Ltd: Ringwood, Hampshire, England, 2010.
- "Vatican City," in Scott Standard Stamp Catalogue, volume 6, Sidney, Ohio: Scott Publishing Company, 2006.
- James Lees-Milne, Saint Peter's: The Story of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome (Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1967), 117, 119-121, 216-222, chapters 6 and 8.
- Filippo Coarelli, Rome and Environs: An Archaeological Guide, translated by James J. Clauss and Daniel P. Harmon (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2007), 354-356.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- May 31, 1933
- Object number
- 2008.2009.22
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink(multicolored)
- Place
- VATICAN CITY (independent city state)
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue Vatican City 26
- Topic
- International Stamps & Mail
- Record ID
- npm_2008.2009.22
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