Spain: First Floating Trade Fair Stamp (1956)
May 10th, 2008 Posted in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico, Ships, Spain & Colonies, Stamp Profiles, Topicals or Thematics, Trade Fairs, United StatesThis interesting stamp (SG 1254/Scott 848) was issued 1956.
The ship, CIUDAD DE TOLEDO, with a tonnage of 10, 123, was used to transport Spain’s first floating Trade Fair of national products around the world, was built by the Cia Euskalduna atBilbao for her owners, the Cia Tras Mediterranea.
Ten thousand products of Spanish agriculture, industry and trade were shown at all the most important ports of the Spanish-American seaboard, including Buenos Aires, Bahia, Narranquilla, Colon, Vera Cruz, Tampico, New Orleans, Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Ciudad Trujillo and Puerto Rico (San Juan).
Note: There was also a similar occasion when a representative “Festival of Britain” (1951) was seaborne in an aircraft-carrier.
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