Italy

Event Publicity Poster Stamps

To celebrate the centenary of Allesandro Volta's invention of the first storage battery for electricity, there were celebrations held in Como, Italy, Volta's home.
    According to Wikipedia:

    Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. He invented the voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his experiments in 1800 in a two-part letter to the President of the Royal Society. With this invention Volta proved that electricity could be generated chemically and debunked the prevalent theory that electricity was generated solely by living beings. Volta's invention sparked a great amount of scientific excitement and led others to conduct similar experiments, which eventually led to the development of the field of electrochemistry.
There were several poster stamps issued to commemorate and publicize the exhibitions, which took place from May 15 to October 15, 1899.
This set of two stamps reproduces the official exhibition poster designed by Adolfo Hohenstein, and appeared in the classic  Les Maîtres de l'Affiche.
    According to Wikipedia:

    Adolfo Hohenstein (Saint Petersburg, 18 March 1854 – Bonn, 12 April 1928) was a German painter, advertiser, illustrator, set designer and costume designer. Hohenstein is considered the father of Italian poster art and an exponent of the Stile Liberty, the Italian Art Nouveau. Together with Leonetto Cappiello, Giovanni Mario Mataloni, Leopoldo Metlicovitz and Marcello Dudovich, he is considered one of the most important Italian poster designers.
The design depicts two women holding symbols of manual labor - a washboard and a shuttlecock. One of the women is placing a laurel wreath on a cameo of Alessandro Volta, to express their gratefulness for his advances in electricity, which frees them from the drudgery of household chores.
These stamps are listed in "A General Illustrated Catalogue of Exhibition and Event Poster Stamps to 1914" compiled by Stewart Gardiner and Steve Greiczek, on page 110, as Type 1.
They are also listed in Eupremio Malorzo's "Catalogo degli Erinnofili Italiani - Bolli commemorativi dal 1860 al 1945" as # 99-30.

This lot consists of a set of the two different color combinations.

These stamps are F/VF, OG, NH, disturbed gum with slight gum loss. 

Approximate Image Size: 28 x 61 mm.


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