Description of stamp

The hearth

Text:. HIC FOCVS ET TAEDAE PINGVES HIC PLVRIMVS IGNIS (BVC.VII)
Here we have a hearth and pitchy brands; here a good fire ever blazing

Extract from Eclogue 7.49-50:
Hic focus et taedae pingues, hic plurimus ignis
semper et adsidua postes fuligine nigri:

Here we have a hearth and pitchy brands; here a good fire ever blazing
and door-posts black with never-failing soot.

Michel 352, Sassone 289, AFA 302
Date of issue: 1930
Face value: 5+1.50 l.

Date created: 22/03/00 11:41:47

Date of issue: 1930

Face value: 5+1.50 l. Date created: 22/03/00 11:41:47

Face value: 5+1.50 l.

Date created: 22/03/00 11:41:47