MARCONI STAMPS


Many countries have issued stamps honouring Guglielmo Marconi. It is the intent here to showcase what Canada Post has done to honour Marconi.
 

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This 1974 issue acknowledged the 100th anniversary of the birth of G. Marconi  (Image via E-bay)
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First day cover circa 1974  (Image via E-bay)
 
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A dual issue 2002 stamp set honouring Sir Stanford Fleming and Guglielmo Marconi. There were 5 milliom printed. (Image courtesy Canada Post)
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2002 official first day cover. (Image courtesy Canada Post)
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This 2002 commemorative envelope celebrated  the 100th amnniversaty of Marconi's first wireless message sent in 1902.  (Image courtesy Canada Post)

 
On May 20, 2020 , Canada Post commerated the 100th aniversary of the first radio broadcast in Canada..  Details can be found here.

 
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October 1/2021 was World Postcard Day.  
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One of the broadcasting stamps was applied to the postcard  to celebrate World Postcard Day. (Images provided by Dori Proc.

 
 
 
 
 

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