For your consideration: this hand signed 6.5x9” autographed Christmas card of Italian Catholic Cardinal Dino Staffa. His signature can be clearly seen signed in the classic style of a Cardinal on the vintage original Vatican Christmas card dated 1967.

This card is in good condition with minor signs of age and wear (see photos). It comes with a collector’s Wikipedia print out from 2007. Note the dealer price of $35 penciled in the upper left corner.

We are in the process of listing the estate of an autograph collector. Although we have not found a COA or purchase receipt for this autograph, we have no reason to doubt its authenticity.

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From Wikipedia: “Dino Staffa (14 August 1906 – 7 August 1977) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura from 1967 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967.

On 3 September 1960 Staffa was appointed Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Palaestina in association with his post as secretary of Seminaries and Universities. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 28 October from Pope John XXIII, with Archbishop Diego Venini and Bishop Benigno Carrara serving as co-consecrators, in St. Peter's Basilica. From 1962 to 1965, Staffa attended the Second Vatican Council.

Pope Paul VI, whose reign Staffa predicted to be "truly great",[1] later named him as pro-prefect of the Apostolic Signatura on 7 April 1967, and created him cardinal priest of S. Cuore di Cristo Re in the consistory of 26 June 1967.

Staffa became full prefect of the Apostolic Signatura on 26 March 1969. In 1972, the cardinal lowered the high costs involved in receiving an annulment from the Roman Rota.

Staffa was made cardinal priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva on 24 May 1976 and later died in Rome seven days short of his 71st birthday. He was buried in his family's tomb in Massa Lombarda.”