First Day Cover - Paraguay - Centro Filatélico del Paraguay
The cachet on this first day cover, issued by the Centro Filatélico del Paraguay, repeats the portraits of four famous authors from the stamps it was designed to bear.
Centro Filatélico del Paraguay
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First Day Cover
Paraguay
Postage Stamp - Paraguay - 1973
Part of a series of stamps issued by Paraguay in 1973 depicting Florentine paintings, this air mail stamp shows a detail from Domenico di Michelino's <em>La commedia illumina Firenze</em> (<em>The Comedy Illuminates Florence</em>). Michelino's fifteenth-century fresco painting is in the cathedral of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore. In the stamp's upper right corner is "PARAGUAY / AEREO". The denomination is in the lower left corner while the artist and designer are indicated along the bottom: "DOMENICO DI MICHELINO" and "LITO. NACIONAL - PORTO - PORTUGAL".
Denomination: Gs. 20. (20.00 PYG)
Perforation: 14 (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
Domenico di Michelino
Litografia Nacional (Porto, Portugal)
Spanish
Postage Stamp
Paraguay
Miniature Sheet - Paraguay - 1966
Spanish
Miniature Sheet
Paraguay
Postage Stamp - Paraguay - 1966
<span>This set of two postage stamps was issued by Paraguay in 1966 as part of an 8-stamp set celebrating four world authors (Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Molière, and William Shakespeare). The Dante stamps show a monochrome version of Henry Holiday's 1884 painting </span><em>Dante and Beatrice</em><span> and Giotto's portrait of the poet. The stamps are captioned as follows: "DANTE / ALIGHIERI / 1265-1321"; "PRIMER ENCUENTRO CON BEATRIZ / A LA ORILLA DEL ARNO·FLORENCIA" (First encounter with Beatrice on the bank of the Arno, Florence); and, vertically along the left side, "CUADRO PINTADO POR HOLIDAY" (Picture painted by Holiday). At the top of the 10-<span>céntimos</span> stamp is "CORREO DEL / PARAGUAY / CENTENARIO DE LA EPOPEYA NACIONAL DE 1864 - 1870" (Mail of Paraguay; Centenary of the national epic of 1864-1870); at the top of the 36-<span>guaraní</span> stamp is "CORREO AEREO DEL / PARAGUAY / CENTENARIO DE LA EPOPEYA NACIONAL DE 1864 - 1870" (Air mail of Paraguay; Centenary of the national epic of 1864-1870). The denomination is in the lower right corner while the printer and designer are indicated along the bottom: "DE LA RUE DE COLOMBIA" (Thomas de la Rue de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia) and "MOSDÓSSY" (Imre Mosdóssy). The stamps are known to have been printed in other colors.</span>
Denomination: ₲ 0.10 (0.10 PYG); ₲ 36.00 (36.00 PYG)
Perforation: 12 × 12 ¾ (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
Henry Holiday
Giotto
Imre Mosdóssy
Thomas de la Rue de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)
Spanish
Postage Stamp
Paraguay