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Giuseppe Verdi, Maximum Card from Romania, 1985 Giuseppe Verdi, Maximum Card from Romania, 1987

VARIANTS - Two Maximum Cards with the same stamp, on different postcards and with different cancellations.

Above left: Giuseppe Verdi (9 October 1813, Le Roncole - 27 January 1901, Milan). Type of music: opera, choral. Postmark: BUCURESTI, 28.III.1985, Day of Issue. Card published by Stengel & Co., Dresden, No. 49031.

Above right: Giuseppe Verdi. Postmark: BUCURESTI, 1.10.1987, International Day of Music. Real-photographic card postally used from BUCURESTI in 12 January 1912. No publisher details. Triple concordance.

Giuseppe Verdi, Maximum Card from Romania, 1963 Giuseppe Verdi, Maximum Card from Italy, 1951

Above left: Giuseppe Verdi. Postmark: BUCURESTI, 10.8.1963, Day of Issue. Card published by F.A. Ackermanns Kunstverlag, München, A 7082. Signed art by A. Herrmann.

Above right: Giuseppe Verdi. Postmark: MILANO, 19.11.1951. Postage stamp: Italy, 19.11.1951, 50th anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi. Card published by ARS MINIMA, No. 179. Verdi in 1886 (detail), painting by Giovanni Boldini (Italian Painter, 1842-1931).

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Selected MCs from my exhibit 'THE MUSIC HAS SURVIVED TRIUMPHANTLY'.