Leonardo da Vinci

When I was a kid, I used to draw almost every day. I would use pencils to sketch all kinds of things: birds, imagined people, my dog, landscapes, fish, etc. My mother sent me regularly to take drawing lessons: at the YMCA, at some community center, and eventually at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts – where my daughter-in-law teaches now.

One of my favorite artists when I was young was Leonardo da Vinci. I particularly liked that he sketched. I would try to copy some of his sketches, although many were done with charcoal, which I didn’t like to use. Being a bit nerdy, I preferred to use pencils for more precise drawings and later with pen and ink for even more precision.

Leonardo’s works can be found in some of the most prestigious galleries in the world. He lived and worked primarily in Florence and Milan. I’ve seen some of his famous paintings (e.g., the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper fresco) and some of his notebooks, which included many of his sketches and discoveries on science and notes on engineering ideas he had. He is credited for first conceiving of a flying machine, as well as a helocopter, a parachute, and other such devices five hundred years ago.

The series of stamps on this page are air mail stamps. They depict Leonardo and his drawings of a flying machine. They’re in homage to his early contribution to flight and celebating him as an Italian ancestor.

Note

Although there aren’t many stamps for this page and they’re not expensive, it took me quite a while to locate and buy them. But I managed to get them, recently. I’m glad to have this page behind me. I look forward to the time when I can focus on a few key stamps here and there. I’ve been doing that in the past month or two, but empty pages are irritating and distracting from the hunt for rarer ones.

Contains 7 spots: own 7 – 7 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Oct 28, 2022

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Leonardo da Vinci

1.1	✓	A26	Leonardo’s Flying Machine	50c (mar 1932) air mail, sepia
2.1	✓	A27	Leonardo da Vinci	1₤ (mar 1932) air mail, purple
2.2	✓	A28	Leonardo da Vinci	3₤ (mar 1932) air mail, red
2.3	✓	A29	Leonardo da Vinci	5₤ (mar 1932) air mail, green
3.1	✓	A30	Leonardo’s Flying Machine	7.70+2₤ (mar 1932) air mail, sky blue
3.2	✓	A31	Leonardo da Vinci	10+2.50₤ (mar 1932) air mail, sepia
4.1	✓	A41	Leonardo da Vinci	100₤ (aug 1932) air mail, green & sky blue

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.