Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Postage stamp

Italy

 

Collected by Louis Colville Gray Clarke

Given to the Museum in 1921

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Postage stamp, Italy

Coin production is often suspended during war time, as metals are required to make weapons. Other materials are therefore used. A common substitute is a mounted postage stamp. This 10-cent postage stamp was used as currency in Italy during the First World War. It has been mounted with a frame to protect it, which has been stamped with an advertisement for Singer’s sewing machines.

View database record 1921.31.8-.9