Very Old Collector Postcard Unusual French Christmas Holyday Greeting from EGYPT

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Very Old Collector Postcard Unusual French Christmas Holyday Greeting from EGYPT:
$39.30

FREE SHIPPINGFrom Milano, Italy.

(This postcard will be shipped to buyer from Milano, Italy)

Very Old Collector Postcard

The Pyramids of Gizeh, #6

with unusual Christian greetings

Merry Christmas Happy New Year

from EGYPT,written in French

by Lehnert & Landrock, Cairo.

Postcard is very old but kept in good condition.

An ancient postcard with very minor corner crush.

(Shows an original penciled addressnicely erased)

This fine postcard is prized possession of Victor Perantoni’s dear friend Gogliardo Grassi. His collections were kept and maintained in the city of Milano (where Gogliardo resided all his life) and are still there today in the custody and care of his family estate. Most of the new unmarked stamps were acquired by Gogliardo at or near their first day of issue, and even his ‘postmarked collections’ were obtained by him in the early periods of their postage dates of issue.

As young men during Italy’s pre-war years, Victor and Gogliardo shared an enthusiastic passion for stamp collecting, succeeded only by their devotion to the girls they loved, and later to their marriage and children. A fond memory of the Grassi family was the day their first-born baby son opened his eyes for the first time, and saw an album page of beautiful Italian stamps held in the hand of his father.

After the war Victor and Gogliardo expanded their philatelic passions to world-wide stamp collecting. This satisfied Gogliardo’s desire for world travel, while Victor actually took his family from Europe to Australia, then to the Americas, traveling around the world, his family lifestyle. This way the two friends increased their world-wide collections trading philatelic treasures with each other from distant corners of the globe. From Gogliardo came post-war Europe, and from Victor came the rest of the world.

By the 1960’s the two friends had come to be seasoned and experienced philatelic collectors. They had progressed from the traditional postmarked philately, to more sophisticated collections of pristine new stamps in beautiful series. Still, as mature philatelists, both Victor and Gogliardo kept a deep appreciation for postmarked items, which they asserted, were items which had completed their true philatelic purpose.

You can read more about Victor and Gogliardo\'s pre-war and wartime experiences in our book titled:\"Arrivederci Leopolis. The Lion\'s War\" by George Perantoni and Sam Ivey, published by Amazon.

Victor’s collections are currently being listed for sale in our store “The Lion’s War”. More about Victor andabout his collections on our blogsite: www.lionswar.com ... and also in the accounts of our family historyrecently published by Amazon : “Arrivederci Leopolis. The Lion’s War”.