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One Of My Favorite Italian Commercial Covers

 
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Posted 11/08/2010   8:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add fredcdobbs to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Not a perfect condition cover but still attractive, the building in Manhattan is still a financial building.



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Posted 11/08/2010   8:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add lithograving to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That is a very nice cover Fred, I agree with you.
11 days from Genoa to New York, not bad.

It looks like it left Cherbourg on the German liner SS Deutschland on July 30, 1937.
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that is a nice cover Fred..its odd I collect Italy and I collect covers..but for some reason I do not persue Italian covers..i had to search to show this one !

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APS 070059 Life Member International Society of Guatemala Collectors I.S.G.C. #853
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The ship had a tragic ending as she was sunk in May 1945 by a British air attack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Deu...d_%281923%29
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i guess they were running out of targets by May 1945 !
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