Italy, Scott #C33 (Sassone #A31), used (o), 1932 air mail, issue promoting the Dante Alighieri Society, a national literary association founded to promote the development of Italian language and culture, stamp shows Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance, who was active as a painter, pencil artist, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect; while his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become famous through the ages for his ‘notebooks’, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, primitive aeronautics, botany, cartography, painting, and paleontology; he is widely regarded to have been ‘the Italian genius’ who epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal; and his collective works comprise a contribution to later generations of artists perhaps matched only by that of his younger contemporary Michaelangelo; issued with a postage surcharge at 10 lira plus 2.50 lira, photogravure printed, perforated: 14, watermarked: crown (Scott watermark #140, Sassone filigrana corona), black brown, Scott 2019 catalog value: $340.00, nicely centered, large, light, black-inked, nearly full circle, double-rimmed, quarter counter-clockwise turned, classic socked-on-the-nose cancellation with nearly complete mailing details over right center of the stamp, sound back, good perforations; centering and mailing details cancel warrants a selling price premium. This is not a 'bait-and-switch' offering. The stamp you see will be the stamp you receive.
Please review my terms of sale. If you are not ordering from the United States, there is a $US1.55 additional postage expense that needs to be added to the selling price of the stamp, plus a certified mailing fee that varies by country of destination, but is approximately $4.00 per $100.00 of insurance. Thus the cost of mailing and insurance will be about: $9.55 for most customers outside of the United States. If you are ordering from the United States, there is only a $US0.68 added postage expense, plus a $4.00 certified mail expense, total: $4.68. Also, if you make additional purchases from my offerings, they can all go in one mailing at no extra expense for the added purchases. Also, if you make additional purchases from my offerings, they can all go in one mailing at no extra shipping expense for the added purchases. If not satisfied, return the stamp to me at your own expense, and I will refund the cost, but not my postage to you. If the stamp is not as described, I will refund the cost and reimburse you for postage both ways.
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