#PhilatelicFriday VERTIGO Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary
HUNGARY, 1921, Madonna and Child, 5,000k dark green and pale blue, center inverted, full clean original gum, lightly hinged, very well centered and fresh, Very Fine, with 2004 Philatelic Foundation certificate. Scott No. 386a. Michel No. 379 I. Est. 16,000 - 20,000 CHF This is by far one of the premier Inverted Centers of 20th century Europe; less than 100 examples reported (used and unused), with at least 38 of these are tied up in museums, others with quality problems, leaving very few opportunities for a collector to obtain one of these beautiful rarities. (via Philasearch.com: 15 Harmers Auction SA - item 9267-A12-1684)
Luxembourg, 1951, Europ. Agreement on larger jewellery R First Day Cover genuine postally used, Michel 250.- (via Philasearch.com: 149 Rauss & Fuchs Auction Sale - item 31-A149-788)
IVORY COAST, 1933 (Aug 5-15), 4th South America Flight, registered cover from Koroko via Friedrichshafen to Lima, Peru, with massive colorful franking and all proper postmarks and backstamps, Very Fine, quite scarce, detailed 1998 Simon certificate. Sieger No. 223 Aa. Est. 750 - 1,000 CHF (via Philasearch.com: 15 Harmers Auction SA - item 9267-A12-785)
#PhilatelicFriday IVORY COAST, 1933 (Aug 5-15), 4th South America Flight, registered cover from Koroko via Friedrichshafen to Lima, Peru, with massive colorful franking and all proper postmarks and backstamps, Very Fine, quite scarce, detailed 1998 Simon certificate. Sieger No. 223 Aa. Est. 750 - 1,000 CHF (via Philasearch.com: 15 Harmers Auction SA - item 9267-A12-785)
#CinemaLove Anita Ekberg warming up on the set of La Dolce Vita after wading in the Trevi Fountain (1959) (via)
“Anita Ekberg was a glorious apparition! She was like phosphorus, an extraterrestrial with a lunar pallor in her face and hair. It’s been a long time since I saw Anita. Watching her weather so many seasons as she has…I particularly appreciate her because in one of my films, a filmetto called Intervista, I narrated a visit with Mastroianni to her villa in the country. She’s a woman of a certain age who’s put on weight, who lives with her dogs and ducks, like a happy peasant.
And I saw she’d aged gracefully, a tranquil aging, sober, wise…She’s no longer the glorious diva, the Olympian she once was but she seems to me a beautiful example of serenity.”
-Federico Fellini, 1993 (via)
