Italy 1935 Aeronautic Salon
- Edition : "Poste del Regno d'Italia"; commemorative stamps of the issue "1st Aeronautical Salon"; issue of 4 stamps
Note:
The 1935 Aeronautical Salon ("Salone della motonautica e della nautica") was a section of the 1935 Milan fair and took place in October 1935 (12-28..?) in the "Palazzo delle Sport" in Milan. This event was accompanied by a commercial flight show and one has to consider that this show took place short before the Civil War in Spain. The number "1" (as "First...") is pure Fascist propaganda, the "1st Aeronautical Salon" took place 1908 in Paris, but the 1935 event was the first aeronautical show in Italy.
- Catalogue numbers: Michel: No. 528-531; Yvert et Tellier: No. 364-367; Scott: No. 345-348
- Issue Date : 01 October 1935
- Colors : red - sepia to brown - violet - blue
- Watermark : Italy No. 1 (crown)
- Nominal values : 20 Cent. (Centesimi) - 30 Cent. (Centesimi) - 50 Cet. (Centesimi) - 1.25 Lire
- Postage validity : to 30 September 1936
- Printed by : "IPS Officina Carte Valori"), ? ("IPS" = "Instituto Poligrafico di Stato") (it has given several)
- Print Process : rotogravure (photogravure)
- Perforations : block perforation, B 14
- Stamp Size :
- a) printed area of a single stamp: 36.5 x 21.0 mm (20 C., 30 C.)
- b) printed area of a single stamp: 21.0 x 26.5 mm (50 C., 1.25 L.)
- Print Run : 90,000 each in sheets à 50 stamps
Commemorative stamps of the issue "1st Aeronautical Salon"
(1935 = year XIII (13) of the Fascist calendar)
20 C., 30 C. : The stamp motive shows an allegory of the Fascist Italian flight.
50 C., 1.25 L. : The stamp motive shows a detail from a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) from a drawing by Francesco Melzi (1491-1568), contemporary located in the Royal Collections of the British monarchs. Leonardo is shown over a crown with the coat of arms of Savoy and fascios on the sides and under a sqadron of flying machines in a rayon..