Marconi & Others

All of the stamps on this album page commemorate famous Italians. Except for the ones on the last row, they depict men from the arts in some way or other. They’re also commemorating their hundredth anniversary.

There’s Gaspare Spontini an opera composer and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, a Baroque music composer and musician. There are stamps commemorating Antonio Stradivari, a maker of stringed instruments – especially known for his violins. There’s also some for Giotto di Bondone, a painter and architect. And there’s Giacomo Leopardi, a philosopher and writer.

Guglielmo Marconi

The invention of the radio for the broadcasting of audio transmission of words and music was a long, drawn out process involving many scientists. Its history is both fascinating and boring.

One of the earlier contributors to the invention was Guglielmo Marconi. Stamps commemorating him are on the bottom row of this album page. They’re from 1938: he died the year before.

Marconi was an Italian electrical engineer who invented a wireless telegraph system that used radio waves. He invented and patented several devices for sending morse code by radio waves, primarily to ships at sea and later between Europe and North America.

Being the first to develop equipment for the use of radio waves for communication and broadcasting, he’s often credited with having invented the radio. He won a Nobel prize for physics in 1909 for his work in radio waves.

Note

This page is complete – which is always pleasing to me. The page after this one is complete. If I can complete the one after that and one before this one, I’ll have six completed pages in sequence. That’ll be nice. For now, I need to write some text describing these stamps so this page isn’t just about my boring shopping desires.

Contains 13 spots: own 13 – 13 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

Famous Italians

1.1	✓	426	Gaspare Spontini	10c (oct 1937) comm., sepia
1.2	✓	427	Antonio Stradivari	20c (oct 1937) comm., red
1.3	✓	428	Giacomo Leopardi	25c (oct 1937) comm., green
2.1	✓	429	Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	30c (oct 1937) comm., sepia
2.2	✓	430	Giacomo Leopardi	50c (oct 1937) comm., purple
2.3	✓	431	Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	75c (oct 1937) comm., red
2.4	✓	432	Giotto di Bondone	1.25₤ (oct 1937) comm., sky blue

Semi-Postal

3.1	✓	433	Gaspare Spontini	1.75₤ (oct 1937) comm., orange
3.2	✓	434	Antonio Stradivari	2.55+2₤ (oct 1937) semi-postal, green
3.3	✓	435	Giotto di Bondone	2.75+2₤ (oct 1937) semi-postal, brown

Marconi

4.1	✓	436	Guglielmo Marconi	20c (jan 1938) comm., red
4.2	✓	437	Guglielmo Marconi	50c (jan 1938) comm., violet
4.3	✓	438	Guglielmo Marconi	1.25₤ (jan 1938) comm., 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.