Postal Curator Daniel Piazza to Discuss Historical Period of Italian Philately

On Sunday, July 31, 2022, at 7 p.m., renowned stamp expert Daniel A. Piazza will give a virtual talk to AMHS members on a historical period of Italian stamps. His topic will be “The ‘Fascist Style’ in Italian Philately, 1922-1941.” 

Piazza has been the Chief Curator of the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum since 2014. He is responsible for exhibitions, acquisitions and research related to the museum’s collection of 6 million postage stamps and postal artifacts comprising one of the largest such collections in the world. His exhibitions have included “Freedom Just Around the Corner:  Black America from Civil War to Civil Rights,” which won the 2016 Smithsonian Research Prize.

Details on the Zoom link will follow closer to the date of the talk.

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July/August 2022