2nd World Cup Football Championship (Campionati mondiali di calcio).

Description: Series of 5 stamps with 3 subjects. Impression 145.000.
Date of issue: May 24, 1934. Valid up to November 20, 1934

Airmail series

After cycling football was the most popular sport in the 1920s and 30s. Giro d’Italia was a way of unifying the country, and also football had patriotic overtones.
The year 1934 was a real propaganda triumph for the fascist regime. Italy not only staged the World Cup, but also won it. Mussolini himself handed out the medals to his victorious team. Sport achievements contributed much to the general popularity of the regime.

Fasces, some of them in stylized version, on right side. Arms of Savoy not depicted.

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