Commemoration: North Italy's first post-WW2 Philatelist Convention in 1946 (EE1)

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MANIFESTAZIONE FILATELICA MANTOVANA 1946
To make a historical record of this extraordinary stamp-show Victor Perantoni wrote this postcard and mailed it across town to himself using expensive Airmail stamps of the new Italian Republic.
Event held on
5+6 OCTOBER 1946
for the
First Post-War Philatelist Convention
in Mantova, Italy (my birth town).
This postcard was written by Victor (Vittorio) Perantoni to himself, addressed to our family's wine-exporting business office in Mantova (Mantua) northern Italy.  The cash-registers of our family Cafe' & Wine Bottling shop, and the cash drawers at their exporting business office were the origin of our store's fascist and pre-fascist coins that had become worthless due to Italy's defeat from WW2 in the previous year.  But now, in the 21st century, those coins have become valuable once again, as we sell them here in our family eBay store named
Victor Perantoni.
Note the two stamps that Victor Perantoni used to mail this postcard.  They're Italy's first two Airmail stamps authorized by the Allied Military Government soon after King Victor Emmanuel III had been deposed, and Italy became a
sovereign
Republic in June '46.
To mail this postcard
across town (Mantova
) Victor Perantoni used these two expensive Airmail stamps because of their post-war historical significance:
"
A handshake of friendship in the new age of jet propulsion
- and - P
eaceful birds over the
Mediterranean
sea
."
Quite a contrast from Mussolini's bellicose fascist stamps of previous years.
Please visit our family eBay Store named
"
Victor Perantoni
"
... collector of worldwide stamps and coins.
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