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Pre-stamped postcard - Dominique Piazza - International

Current price

2.50

Description

To mark the 150th anniversary of the postcard in France, La Poste is reissuing 10 cards illustrating the golden age of the postcard (i.e. up to the 1920s) with a stamp used at the time on the reverse, making them ready to mail and travel as pre-stamped cards at the international rate. Named after its inventor, a young entrepreneur from Marseilles, Dominique Piazza (1860-1941), it was invented in August 1891. It was the first card with photographs, thanks to phototyping, "a process for the mechanical reproduction of images by transferring a photograph onto a glass plate covered with a layer of bichromate gelatin". This process enabled the production of an enormous number of cheaply printed clichés. His invention, which was not protected by a trademark, was soon copied extensively. This very early card is therefore extremely rare.

Legal information

Carte postale photographique, copie d’après une carte originale créée en 1891 par Dominique Piazza (1860-1941), collection privée - Droits réservés. Timbre Sage 10c type II (YT89) de 1877, dessiné par Jules Auguste Sage et gravé par Louis Eugène Mouchon. Carte pré-timbrée à validité permanente / La Poste, 2022.

Information

Commercialisation start date

June 27, 2022

Commercialisation end date

June 30, 2026

Adherence type

None

Printing technique

Offset

Number per sheet

0

Permanent value

Yes

Face value

1.65 €

Philatelic charter family

(not applicable)

Official release date

June 27, 2022

Stamp format

-

author

-

Product number

2122812