Pink Gronchi

The pink Gronchi is a Italian Timbre-poste of the series announcing the voyage of the president of the Italian Republic, Giovanni Gronchi in three countries of South America (Argentine, Uruguay and Peru) in April 1961. Pink Gronchi is the stamp on the stopover with the Peru of the president. It is a erroneous Timbre famous: emitted on April 3rd, its substitute is available the 6, day of the departure of the president.

Using three nuances of pink, this stamp of 205 to read S represents an extract of Planisphère with a Atlantic Ocean disproportionate to draw the presidential plane there. Italy and Peru are represented pink dark. Italy discounted of this voyage of the important economic contracts, and a sheet was offered to the ambassador of Peru with Rome, while the Italian post office and the first collectors made fold-memories which were going to travel aboard plane of president Gronchi.

However, the ambassador threatened of an diplomatic incident because Roberto Mura, the draftsman-engraver of the stamp, had removed in Peru an Amazonian province that the Brésil asserted. In one night, the stamp was corrected and reprinted color gray-black. A new sheet was presented to the ambassador.

For the first already made fold-memories, the post-office employees stuck Gronchi gray-black on the pink to avoid a new incident with the Peruvian post office. Withdrawn of the sale very quickly, pink Gronchi has a strong coast; on envelope not covered by a gray-black, it is very rare.

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