Leonardo Air

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

Recently, I acquired the Dante Society air mail stamps celebrating Leonardo da Vinci. They cost a little more than I’d prefer to pay, but I’m glad to have them and this page thereby completed. I’ve had for a whie the stamps commemorating the royal visit of 1929. Those were printed in 1932 and are the same as the ones on the first page of this section (see Joining Kingdom) – but these are cheaper. The only difference is that those first stamps had a perforation of 11 and these are perforated 14 points per 2 centimeters.

Perforated means that the printed stamp pages are pierced with holes to make tearing them apart easier. For more on perforation, see my Stamp Perforations video.

Contains 16 spots: own 16 – 16 unused, 0 used.
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Album or Web Page Last changed Jan 26, 2024

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.

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Dante Alighieri Society - Air Mail

1.1	✓	A21	Leonardo Da Vinci	100₤ (nov 1932) air mail, oliveultramarine
1.2	✓	A8	Leonardo’s Flying Machine	50c (may 1932) air mail, pink
1.3	✓	A9	Leonardo Da Vinci	1₤ (may 1932) air mail, dark green
2.1	✓	A10	Leonardo Da Vinci	3₤ (may 1932) air mail, lilac
2.2	✓	A11	Leonardo Da Vinci	5₤ (may 1932) air mail, orange
3.1	✓	A12	Leonardo’s Flying Machine	7.70+2₤ (may 1932) semi-postal, brown
3.2	✓	A13	Leonardo Da Vinci	10+2.50₤ (may 1932) semi-postal, slate

Royal Visit

4.1	✓	56	Windmill	5c (dec 1932) definitive, lilac pink
4.2	✓	57	Medieval Galley	10c (dec 1932) definitive, grey brown
4.3	✓	58	Christian Knight	20c (aug 1932) definitive, red
4.4	✓	59	Christian Knight	25c (aug 1932) definitive, green
5.1	✓	60	Crusader Praying	30c (dec 1932) definitive, blue
5.2	✓	63	Crusader Praying	5₤ (dec 1932) definitive, red lilac
5.3	✓	64	Rodi	10₤ (dec 1932) definitive, brown olive
6.1	✓	61	Crusader Tomb	50c (aug 1932) definitive, dark brown
6.2	✓	62	Crusader Tomb	1.25₤ (aug 1932) definitive, 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.