New Italian postage stamps

 Stamps for Erminio Macario, Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia 

Teller Reports

10/26/2022

The Italian Post Office announces the issue by the Ministry of Economic Development of two ordinary stamps belonging to the thematic series "the Excellencies of the show".

From today the faces of Erminio Macario and of the duo Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia are on two stamps issued to celebrate the three great protagonists of Italian culture.

The vignettes on the stamps show the faces of the three actors;

in the one dedicated to Macario the Mole Antonelliana also appears to symbolize its link with Turin.

Born in Turin in 1902 (died 1980) he was a theater, show, magazine, cinema and television actor.

Sicilian roots have Franco (born in 1928 and died in 1992) and Ciccio (born in 1922 and died in 2003).

After a very hard childhood, their partnership was born in 1954; '

'discovered' by Domenico Modugno.

In the illustrative bulletin that accompanied the issue of the stamps, a sentence by Federico Fellini is quoted: "there is more Italy in a film by Franco and Ciccio than in all the Italian comedy".

Postage stamp dedicated to Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassi.

The Italian Post Office communicates the issue by the Ministry of Economic Development of two ordinary stamps belonging to the thematic series "the Excellencies of the show", dedicated to Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia and to Macario relating to the value of tariff B equal to 1.20 euro for each stamp.

They will have a circulation of three hundred thousand and fifteen copies for the stamp dedicated to Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia and three hundred thousand and twenty copies for the stamp dedicated to Macario.

Sheet of forty-five copies for the stamp dedicated to Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia and twenty-eight copies for the stamp dedicated to Macario.

The stamps are printed by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato SpA, in rotogravure, on white, neutral coated, self-adhesive, non-fluorescent paper.

Sketch by Tiziana Trinca for the postage stamp dedicated to Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia and by the Philatelic Center of the Operational Direction of the Polygraphic Institute and State Mint for the postage stamp dedicated to Macario.