MUSEO DEL ORO. Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia. Ticket (2025)

MUSEO DEL ORO
Banco de la República
La Candelaria
Bogotá

Ticket Nº 29320245199
15.05.2025, 3:53 PM
$5,000

The Museo del Oro (Museum of Gold) is an archaeology museum established on 22 December 1939. The museum displays a selection of pre-Columbian gold and other metal alloys, such as Tumbaga, and contains the largest collection of gold artifacts in the world in its exhibition rooms. Together with pottery, stone, shell, wood and textile objects, these items, made of what indigenous cultures considered to be a sacred metal, testify to the life and thought of the different societies which lived in present-day Colombia before the Spanish conquest of the Americas. The museum is administered by the Banco de la República.

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RESTAURANTE CASA EMILIO. Zaragoza, Spain. Calendar 1989

RESTAURANTE CASA EMILIO
50º aniversario, 1939 - 1989
Avda. de Madrid, 5
Zaragoza

Calendar 1989.

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VENTENNIALE DELLA FIERA DI MILANO, 1920-1939. Postcard

VENTENNIALE DELLA FIERA DI MILANO
1920-1939
12-27 aprile

Postcard [no mention of publisher].
Designed by MAN·LIO·.

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M. S. "BEAVERBRAE". Postcard (1950s)

M. S. BEAVERBRAE

Postcard published by Verlag M. Schmidt, Bremen, Nº 75.
Circulated in Germany in March 1954.

The M.S. Beaverbrae ( 9,034 tons) was built as Huascaran by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg (Germany), in 1939, for the Hamburg-America Line. She made his maiden voyage from Hamburg and the West coast of South America. On return taken over by German Navy for conversion to a submarine depot ship. Spent most of WW2 in Norway where she was captured undamaged by the Allies in 1945. Allocated to Canada as war reparation; refit at Liverpool 1947. Purchased by Canadian Pacific and renamed Beaverbrae, she made her first sailing for them 8 February 1948 from St.John NB with cargo to London. She then sailed to Bremen to pick up passengers for Canada. Eventually she made 51 sailings from Bremen carrying 38,000 displaced persons to Canada as refugees whilst carrying cargo eastbound. Her last emigrant voyage to Canada departed on 28 July 1954. Sold to Compagnia Genovese d'Armamento, Genoa 1 November 1954, she was rebuilt at Monfalcone to 10,022 GRT with accommodation for 1,124 tourist class passengers. Renamed Aurelia, she sailed from Trieste on13 May 1955, via Suez to Australia and made later voyages from Genoa. Re-engined in 1958-59 and rebuilt to 10,480 tons, and she started Bremen-Suez-Australia service on 12 June 1959. In 1962 she began a round of 34 voyages between English Channel ports and New York. In 1970 she was sold to Chandris Lines, renamed Romanza and refitted for cruising. Resold to Ambassador Leisure in 1991; renamed Romantica and cruised in the eastern Mediterranean. In 1997 she caught fire returning to Cyprus from Egypt and was abandoned without casualties. The burnt out hulk was towed to Limassol and scrapped the following year.

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KRAKÓW, Poland. Tramways in 1939 and 2010

KRAKÓW
Tramways in 1939 and 2010.

Thanks to Giovanna G.

S/S "PUŁASKI". Poland. Stamp issued by the Polish Post in 2021

S/S PUŁASKI
Stamp issued by the Polish Post on 23.07.2021.

Steam Ship Pułaski was built in 1912 and purchased in 1930 by the Polish Transatlantic Shipping Company (later Gdynia America Line). In the years 1930-39, she sailed as a civilian passenger and cargo ship mainly between New York and Gdynia. From 1939, she was used as a military transport ship in the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. Was broken up in 1949.

Merci à Daniel.

M/S "BATORY", Poland. Stamp issued as a souvenir sheet by the Polish Post in 2023

M/S BATORY
Stamp issued as a souvenir sheet by the Polish Post on 17.07.2023.

M/S Batory was built in 1934–1935 at the Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico in Monfalcone, Italy, under an arrangement where part of the commission was paid in shipments of coal from Poland, and she was launched on 3 July 1935. She was a Polish ocean liner which was the flagship of Gdynia-America Line, named after Stefan Batory, the sixteenth-century King of Poland. She began regular service in May 1936 on the Gdynia — New York run, and by 1939 had carried over 3,000 passengers. Mobilized at the outbreak of World War II, she served as a troop ship and a hospital ship by the Allied Navy for the rest of the war. In 1940 she, along with Chrobry, transported allied troops during the Norwegian campaign. She was also one of the last ships to leave St Jean de Luz during the final evacuation of Polish troops from France. She was also used for secretly shipping many valuable Polish treasures to Canada for safekeeping. On 5 August 1940 she left Liverpool with convoy WS 2 (Winston's Specials) evacuating 477 children to Sydney, Australia, under the Children's Overseas Reception Board until the war was over. She sailed via Cape Town, India, Singapore to where she had carried 300 troops and Sydney. She was involved in the allied invasion of Oran, Algeria in 1942 (Operation Torch). That same year she took troops to India and later took part in the Allied invasion of Sicily and southern France (Operation Dragoon), where she was the flagship of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army. Returned to post-war Poland in 1946, she resumed civilian service after a refit, and after she was withdrawn from the North Atlantic route, refurbished at Hebburn for service in the tropics, and sailed in August 1951 from Gdynia and Southampton to Bombay and Karachi, via Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, and Suez. In 1957, she returned to the North Atlantic run. She continued in service until 1969, when she was decommissioned and became a floating hotel in Gdynia. However, after about a year, she was sold back to Polish Ocean Lines, and from there she was sold for scrap to Hong Kong. She left Gdynia on 31 March 1971 and arrived to the scrapyard on 26 May. The ship had been scrapped completely by 1972. 

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GARE DE PERRACHE, Lyon, France. Postcard sent to Gabès (Tunisia) in 1939

GARE DE PERRACHE
Lyon

Postcard published by X. Goutagny, Lyon, Nº 2, sent to Gabès (Tunisia) on 04.05.1939.

The Perrache railway station was built from 1855 by the architect François-Alexis Cendrier on behalf of the Paris to Lyon Railway Company and was put into service on 10 November 1856. The passenger building was enlarged again several times (1890, 1913, 1921, 1922, 1926).

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GÉRARDMER, Vosges, France. The electric tram to the Schlucht (1910s)

GÉRARDMER
The electric tram ascending to the Schlucht.

Postcard published by A. Largeron, Nº 77. (1910s)

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Schlucht pass (at 1,139 meters above sea level) served as the border between France and the German Empire. On 29 June 1904, an electric tram line was inaugurated from Gérardmer, and on 13 May 1907, on the German side, another tram line was put into service from the Alsatian city of Munster. At the top of Schlucht there were, therefore, two tram stations, and both passengers coming from France and those arriving from Germany had to get off and walk a few meters if they wanted to continue their journey towards the neighboring country: the journey between Gérardmer and Munster took two hours and a half. To change lines, passengers had to go through customs. Both services were interrupted during the First World War and resumed in the 1920s, until they were permanently suspended on 28 August 1939 and replaced by a bus line.

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MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA, México (1978)

MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA
Castillo de Chapultepec
México, D.F.

(1978)

The National Museum of History of Mexico, located in the Chapultepec Castle, was founded in 1939 and inaugurated on 27 September 1944. It preserves archaeological, historical, artistic and heritage collections of the history of Mexico from the time of the Mexica to the Mexican Revolution. It has 12 permanent exhibition rooms and 22 rooms with historical recreations within the area known as Alcázar. It also has a research and curatorship department dedicated to the study of its own collections. It also has restoration and storage areas for its more than 60 thousand objects.

Gracias a M. Teresa.

EMPRESA DE TRANSPORTES GONDOMARENSE, Porto, Portugal. Calendar 1996

EMPRESA DE TRANSPORTES GONDOMARENSE
Rue Duque de Loulé, 147/151
4000 Porto

Calendar 1996.

The Empresa de Transportes Gondomarense (Gondomarense Transport Company) was founded in Gondomar in 1939 as a result of the merger of four of the six regular collective transport companies that operated in that town. In 1989 the company was acquired by the Brazilian group JAL, created in 1975 by José Alves Lavouras.

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INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA, México (2010)

INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA, México. Boleto de entrada general A Nº 893380, 2010. $41.00.
[El Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) es una dependencia del gobierno federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Fue establecida en 1939 por mandato del presidente Lázaro Cárdenas con el propósito de convertirse en la institución dedicada a la preservación, protección y difusión del patrimonio arqueológico, antropológico e histórico de la nación mexicana. Su creación ha jugado un papel clave en la preservación de la herencia cultural de México. El INAH es responsable de alrededor de 110.000 monumentos históricos, construidos entre los siglos XVI y XIX (el patrimonio cultural datado a partir del siglo XX está bajo el cuidado del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes), y de 29.000 sitios arqueológicos descubiertos hasta la fecha en el territorio del país. De esta enorme cantidad, sólo ciento cincuenta sitios están abiertos al público.]

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY, Mexico. General ticket A Nº 893380, 2010. $41.00.

INSTITUT NACIONAL D'ANTROPOLOGIA I HISTÒRIA, Mèxic. Bitllet d'entrada general A Nº 893380, 2010. $41.00.

INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ANTHROPOLOGIE ET D'HISTOIRE, Mexique. Billet d'entrée général A Nº 893380, 2010. $41.00.

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ANTROPOLOGIA E STORIA, Messico. Biglietto d'ingresso generale A Nº 893380, 2010. $41.00.

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Merci à Daniel (http://lettresdumonde.blogspot.com/)

MUSEO STORICO P.C., Roma (Italia)

MUSEO STORICO P.C., Viale Europa, 00144 Roma EUR (Italia). Cartolina pubblicitaria.
[Il museo delle poste e telecomunicazioni italiano è gestito da Poste italiane e dal Ministero delle Poste e Telegrafi. Le stanze del museo occupano una superficie complessiva di 4000 m² nelle quali vengono raccolti oggetti, cimeli, francobolli che riguardano la storia della posta italiana che spazia dal telegrafo al computer passando per la radio e la televisione. Il primo abbozzo di questo museo è del 1878. In quest'anno Ernesto D'Amico fa creare presso l'ufficio dei Telegrafi a Firenze una raccolta di materiali telegrafici provenienti dai dagli antichi stati italiani prima dell'Unità d'Italia e non più utilizzati dall'unificazione italiana stessa. Successivamente, nel 1890, Pietro Lacava, volle un museo della posta da unire a quello telegrafico di Firenze, così fece organizzare e catalogare tutti quei cimeli che testimoniassero l'evoluzione delle comunicazioni nel corso della storia. Nel 1897, Emilio Sineo, continuò l'operato di Lacava, incrementando le acquisizioni nonché le donazioni di privati arrivando ad un rilevante patrimonio museale. Nel 1907 il materiale museale fu trasferito a Roma. Nel 1939 fu trovata una sede in un ufficio postale nel quartiere Prati. Tuttavia, solo dopo il termine della secoda guerra mondiale il museo venne aperto, questo il 21 giugno 1957. Nel 1977, il museo fu trasferito nella sede attuale ed inaugurato solamente nel 1982.]

HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF POST & TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Viale Europa, 00144 Rome EUR (Italy). Publicitary postcard.

MUSEO HISTÓRICO DEL CORREO Y LAS TELECOMUNICACIONES, Viale Europa, 00144 Roma EUR (Italia). Tarjeta postal publicitaria.

MUSEU HISTÒRIC DEL CORREU I LES TELECOMUNICACIONS, Viale Europa, 00144 Roma EUR (Itàlia). Targeta postal publicitària.

MUSÉE HISTORIQUE DES POSTES ET TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Viale Europa, 00144 Rome EUR (Italie). Carte postale publicitaire.

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ORAN (Algérie). Gare du P.-L.-M. Carte postale censurée (1939)

ORAN / وهران (Algérie). Gare du P.-L.-M. Carte postale (imprimé en France) circulée le 16.12.1939 d'Oran à Barcelone (Espagne). Timbre au dos de la Censure Militaire de Barcelone.

ORAN / وهران (Algeria). Station of the P.-L.-M. Postcard (Printed in France) posted on 16.12.1939 in Oran to Barcelona (Spain). Rubber stamp in the back of Militar Censure of Barcelona.

ORÁN / وهران (Argelia). Estación del P.-L.-M. Tarjeta postal (impresa en Francia) circulada el 16.12.1939 de Orán a Barcelona. Estampilla al dorso de la Censura Militar de Barcelona.

ORAN / وهران (Algèria). Estació del P.-L.-M. Targeta postal (impresa a França) circulada el 16.12.1939 d'Oran a Barcelona. Segell al dors de la Censura Militar de Barcelona.

ORANO / وهران (Algeria). Stazione del P.-L.-M. Cartolina (stampata in Francia) viaggiata il 16.12.1939 da Orano a Barcellona (Spagna). Timbro sul retro della Censura Militare di Barcellona.

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GREEK LINE. S.S. "New York" arriving at Boston, September 1956

GREEK LINE. S.S. "New York" arriving at Boston, September 1956. Photo by John Blake; from the Collection of Richard I. Weiss. Postcard by C.T. Publishing, No. 017.
[This ship was nomed SS "Nea Hellas" (Νεα Ελλασ) between 1939 and 1955, and renamed "New York" between 1955 and 1961. It brought many Greek emigrants and other Europeans to America, specially to the US and Canada. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRQCW0pkvj8.]

GREEK LINE. El S.S. "New York" a su llegada a Boston (EUA), 09.1956. Foto: John Blake; de la colección de Richard I. Weiss. Tarjeta postal de C.T. Publishing, N.º 017.

GREEK LINE. El S.S. "New York" arribant a Boston (EUA), 09.1956. Foto: John Blake; de la col·lecció de Richard I. Weiss. Targeta postal de C.T. Publishing, núm. 017.

GREEK LINE. Le S.S. "New York" à son arrivée à Boston (RUA), 09.1956. Photo: John Blake; de la collection de Richard I. Weiss. Carte postale de C.T. Publishing, Nº 017.

GREEK LINE. Il S.S. "New York" in arrivo a Boston (SUA), 09.1956. Foto: John Blake; dalla collezione di Richard I. Weiss. Cartolina di C.T. Publishing, Nº 017.

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CUNARD LINE. The "Queen Mary" arrival at Long Beach (California), December 9, 1967

CUNARD LINE. The "Queen Mary" arrival at Long Beach (California), December 9, 1967. Postcard by Queen Mary Souvenir / The Continental Card, B2773.
[Launched on 26 September 1934. Sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, on 27 May 1936, to New York. In late August 1939, was on a return run from New York to Southampton. The international situation led to her being escorted by the battlecruiser HMS "Hood". She arrived safely, and set out again for New York on 1 September. By the time she arrived, the Second World War had started and she was ordered to remain in port until further notice alongside "Normandie". In 1940 "Queen Mary" and "Normandie" were joined in New York by new running mate "Queen Elizabeth". The three largest liners in the world sat idle for some time until the Allied commanders decided that all three ships could be used as troopships. "Queen Mary" left New York for Sydney, where she, along with several other liners, was converted into a troopship to carry Australian and New Zealand soldiers to the United Kingdom. During the war, "Queen Mary" carried British Prime Minister Winston Churchill across the Atlantic for meetings with fellow Allied forces officials on several occasions. After World War II, from September 1946 to July 1947, "Queen Mary" was refitted for passenger service, adding air conditioning and upgrading her berth configuration to 711 first class, 707 cabin class and 577 tourist class passengers. Following refit, "Queen Mary" and "Queen Elizabeth" dominated the transatlantic passenger trade as Cunard White Star's two ship weekly express service through the latter half of the 1940s and well into the 1950s. By 1965, the entire Cunard fleet was operating at a loss. Hoping to continue financing their still under construction "Queen Elizabeth 2", Cunard mortgaged the majority of the fleet. Finally, under a combination of age, lack of public interest, inefficiency in a new market, and the damaging after effects of the national seamen's strike, Cunard announced that both "Queen Mary" and "Queen Elizabeth" would be retired from service and were to be sold off. Many offers were submitted, but it was Long Beach, California who beat the Japanese scrap merchants. "Queen Mary" was retired from service in 1967. After her retirement in 1967, she steamed to Long Beach, California, where she is permanently moored as a tourist attraction, hotel, museum, and event facility.]

CUNARD LINE. El "Queen Mary" a su llegada a Long Beach (California, EUA) el 09.12.1967. Tarjeta postal de Queen Mary Souvenir / The Continental Card, B2773.

CUNARD LINE. El "Queen Mary" a l'arribada a a Long Beach (California, EUA) el 09.12.1967. Targeta postal de Queen Mary Souvenir / The Continental Card, B2773.

CUNARD LINE. Le "Queen Mary" à l'arrivée à Long Beach (Californie, EUA) le 09.12.1967. Carte postale de Queen Mary Souvenir / The Continental Card, B2773.

CUNARD LINE. Il "Queen Mary" arrivando a Long Beach (California, SUA) il 09.12.1967. Cartolina di Queen Mary Souvenir / The Continental Card, B2773.

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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. S/S "Compiègne"

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. S/S "Compiègne". Carte postale publicitaire circulée de Port-Saïd (Egypte) à Bracquegnies (Heinaut, Belgique) en 02.1939.
[Paquebot poste, lancé le 18 novembre 1922 à St Nazaire, commandé par les Chargeurs Réunis sous le nom de "Jamaïque", puis racheté sur cales par la compagnie des Messageries Maritimes. Affecté à la ligne d'Indochine, puis en alternance sur l'Océan Indien jusqu'à la guerre. Réquisitionné pour l'expédition de Norvège en 1940, s'arrête finalement dans la Clyde. Arraisonné puis saisi par la marine britannique en novembre 1941. Trop lent pour suivre les convois de transports de troupes, il est transformé en navire-caserne pour les cadets de la Navy, dans la Tamise, mats et cheminée coupés. Echoué après avoir heurté une mine devant Fécamp en juillet 1946. Il est réparé et modifié, puis après des débuts laborieux, reprend un service normal entre Marseille et l'Indochine de 1949 à 1954, date de sa démolition.]

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. S/S "Compiègne". Publicitary postcard posted at Port-Said (Egypt) to Bracquegnies (Belgium) on 02.1939.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. S/S "Compiègne". Tarjeta postal publicitaria circulada de Port-Said (Egipto) a Bracquegnies (Bélgica) en 02.1939.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. S/S "Compiègne". Targeta postal publicitària circulada de Port-Said (Egipte) a Bracquegnies (Bèlgica) en 02.1939.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. S/S "Compiègne". Cartolina pubblicitaria viaggiata da Port-Said (Egitto) a Bracquegnies (Belgio) nel 02.1939.

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UNION-CASTLE LINE. Royal Mail Motor Vessel "Carnavon Castle"

UNION-CASTLE LINE [shipping line that operated a fleet of passenger liners and freighters between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977] to South and East Africa. Royal Mail Motor Vessel "Carnavon Castle". 20,141 tons. Publicitary postcard posted on board at Southampton (04.11.1955) to Watford (Hertfordshire, England), "Paquebot posted at sea".
[The "Carnavon Castle" was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast and launched on 14 January 1926. When war broke out she was converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser in Simonstown in September 1939. Her armament consisted of 8 x 6 inch guns, 
2 x 3 inch anti-aircraft guns and 6 machines guns, and was manned by RN and RNVR personel under Capt. HWM Hardy. HMS "Carnarvon Castle" was stationed in the South Atlantic, partly to counter the threat from German commerce raiders that had been active in the area. On 5 December, roughly 700 miles from Montevideo she sighted an unidentified vessel which was later identified as the commerce raider "Thor". The raider did not answer Carnarvons challenges and the range was closed, with Carnarvon putting a shot across the raiders bows. The raider opened fire and brought her fire to bear on the undergunned Carnarvon. By 0930 the battle was over and the Thor disengaged and sailed off trailing smoke. In the action the Carnarvon had fired over 600 shells and sustained 38 hits and fires but she had survived only looking somewhat the worse for wear. She sailed for Montevideo where she put in for repairs (apparently some of the plating came from the Graf Spee) and then back to Cape Town for permanent repairs. She served mostly as an AMC during the war, being refitted briefly in the USA and fitted with radar. In 1944 she was fitted out as a troopship and spent the rest of the war on the trooping shuttle between America and the United Kingdom. After the war she was used as an immigrant carrier with 1283 berths and was modernised again in 1949-50, her tonnage rising to 20 141 tons. She was put back on the mail service until 1962 when she was withdrawn and finally sent to the breakers. One odd reference to the ships wartime service can be found at Portsmouth (Evergreen) Memorial Park in Virgina in the USA where one of her wartime crew, Able Seaman S.H. Becker of East London has found his rest. (Info from http://www.allatsea.co.za/unioncastle/carnarvon.htm).]

UNION-CASTLE LINE [compañía de navegación británica que enlazó Europa y África de 1900 a 1977]. Buque correo "Carnavon Castle" [1926-1962]. Tarjeta postal publicitaria circulada desde en propio buque ("Paquebot posted at sea"), con matasellos de Southampton Paquebot del 04.11.1955, a Watford (Hertfordshire, Inglaterra).

UNION-CASTLE LINE [companyia de navegació britànica que enllaçà Europa i Àfrica de 1900 a 1977]. Vaixell correu "Carnavon Castle" [1926-1962]. Targeta postal publicitària circulada des del vaixell ("Paquebot posted at sea"), amb matasegells de Southampton Paquebot del 04.11.1955, a Watford (Hertfordshire, Anglaterra).

UNION-CASTLE LINE [compagnie de navigation britannique qui faisait le service entre l'Europe et l'Afrique de 1900 à 1977]. Bateau de poste "Carnavon Castle" [1926-1962]. Carte postale publicitaire circulée depuis de bateau ("Paquebot posted at sea"), avec cachet de poste de Southampton Paquebot du 04.11.1955, à Watford (Hertfordshire, Angleterre).

UNION-CASTLE LINE [compagnia di navigazione britannica che faceva il servizio tra l'Europa e l'Africa dal 1900 al 1977]. Nave postale "Carnavon Castle" [1926-1962]. Cartolina pubblicitaria viaggiata dalla stessa nave ("Paquebot posted at sea"), con annullo postale di Southampton Paquebot del 04.11.1955, a Watford (Hertfordshire, Inghilterra).

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