Other than three sheets retained by the Italian Post Office, the majority were destroyed, with about 20 mint and two favour cancelled examples remaining.
A favour cancellation, or hand-back or cancelled to order postage stamp, is a stamp the issuing postal service has cancelled (marked as used), but has not traveled through the post, but instead gets handed back to a stamp collector or dealer.
I framed my stamp as it is one of my favorite stamps:
Linked to Sunday Stamps
Postcards Etc 
A nice one!
Have you framed a lot of stamps? Just curiosity 🙂
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no, just a few, simply bc I could not find the right frames. I recently found small blocks of acrylic with tiny magnets, so I will frame more 😀
https://us.shein.com/1pc-Clear-Photo-Frame-p-14371524-cat-3469.html?src_identifier=st%3D2%60sc%3Dacrylic%20frames%60sr%3D0%60ps%3D1&src_module=search&src_tab_page_id=page_home1701006102420&mallCode=1
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ooh, I love those frames! I have some old Ikea frames I use for my favourite stamps but they do tend to slip a little over time. I wonder why so many of these stamps were destroyed.
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I remember many years ago many Florence’s artworks got damaged by a major flood. Maybe the same happened to these stamp. Collodi is also in Tuscany. ..
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