San Marino and Italy celebrate the 75th year of the Vespa Club of Italy. The theme was already included in the Italian philatelic program and Poste San Marino Philatelic and Numismatics Division took the opportunity to make it the theme of the 2024 joint issue on 20 April.
The Vespa Club of Italy was officially born on 23 October 1949 in Viareggio with the first National Congress in which 29 delegates participated. Today it promotes Vespa activity in its many forms, sporting, tourist, cultural, recreational and the conservation of the heritage linked to the legendary Vespa Piaggio.
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The stamp created by Poste San Marino Filatelica Numismatica Division to celebrate the Vespa Club Italia and the Vespa Piaggio has a value of 1.25 euros and reproduces an illustration, the work of the sketch artist Paola Momentè which represents on the left a boy with a red helmet riding a a red Vespa traveling along a white road next to a girl with a yellow helmet riding a yellow Vespa, on a blue background. The number 20.04 is shown on the license plate of the red Vespa and the number 2024 is shown on that of the yellow Vespa, to remember the date of issue of the postal series. The value is enclosed in a “leaflet” with 4 stamps, arranged in blocks of four. On the flap on the left of the sheet there is an enlargement of the same illustration as the stamp with the words “VESPA CLUB D’ITALIA – Joint issue San Marino – Italy”. The value is printed in offset, four Pantone and fluorescent yellow invisible ink by Cartor Security Printing, with 13¼ x 13 perforation, with a 30 x 40 mm format, for a total circulation of 35,000 copies, enclosed in 8,750 sheets. The first day of issue cancellation reproduces the vignette of the stamp.
The issue takes place in conjunction with Vespa World Days 2024, which will take place this year in Pontedera from 18 to 21 April, home of the Vespa, the place where it all began, where it was born. Event celebrating 140 years of Piaggio and 100 years of the Pontedera factory.
Michele Fiaschi
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