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The Lateran Pacts was signed 11 February 1929. The agreements established the modern Vatican City State and restored political relationships between the Holy See and Italy accompanied by four annexes: 1. A map of the territory of Vatican City State 2. Maps of buildings with extraterritorial privilege and exemption from expropriation and taxes (owned by the Holy See but located in Italy and not forming part of Vatican City) 3. Maps of buildings with exemption from expropriation and taxes (but without extraterritorial privilege) 4. A financial convention agreed on as a definitive settlement of the claims of the Holy See following the loss in 1870 of its territories and property 5. A concordat regulating relations between the Catholic Church and the Italian state Vatican City issued a miniature sheet of four stamps commemorating the 90th anniversary. A €4,50 M/S designed by artist Orietta Rossi features an outline of Vatican City State and two stamps featuring Pope Pius XI (€1,10 value) and 2 stamps of Pope Francis (€1,15 value), decorated with oak leaves and palms (100,000 printed by Jon Enschedë (Netherlands)). A second €1,10 stamp depicts the Hall of Honor at the Lateran Palace where the agreements were signed by the governments of Pope Pius XI and Benito Mussolini, representing Italy (80,000 self-adhesive stamps printed by I.P.Z.S. (Italy)). This stamp was a joint issue with Italy. On 19 March an additional folder was released, also a joint issue with Italy, featuring the €1,10 stamps and first day covers depicting the Hall of Honor at the Lateran Palace. In addition, a special €8,40 stamp of embroidered polyester yarn and metal depicting the coat of arms of Vatican City State was offered in a folder (40,000 printed by Hämmerle & Vogel (Austria)). The presentation included a first day of issue cover as well as a canceled and uncanceled €8,40 stamps. This was the first time a stamp made from cloth has been issued by Vatican City. The UFN ran afoul of the policies of the Scott Catalogue, who chose to not to assign the embroidered stamp a catalogue number. The following is an explanation the VPS received from Martin J. Frankevicz, the New Issues Editor for Amos Media (the publisher of the Scott Catalogues): "The embroidered item was footnoted as it violated our catalogue listing policy by offering an 8,40-euro face-value stamp only in a package that contained an unused stamp and one on a first-day cover for 28 euros. The way the package was sold forced collectors to buy a first-day cover, which, of course, is a stamp that cannot be used by the purchaser for postage. Thus, if the collector really didn’t want the FDC, 28 euros had to be spent for the valid stamp that the collector desired. That is an excessive amount above face value and made the item in violation of clause 6 of our catalogue listing policy. If the unused stamp were available separately, it may have been listable depending on what they might have charged for it, but it wasn’t made available in anything but the package." Technical Details: Scott Catalogue - 170x - 1710 Date Issued - 11 February 2019 Face Value - 2 @ €1,10 2 @ €1,15, €1,10, €8,40 Perforations - 13.25x13.75 Printing Process - Offset Printer - Jon Enschedë (Netherlands) Max Printed - 80,000 M/S Joint Issue - Italy |
| (Source - Vatican Notes: Volume: 67 Issue: 380 Page: 4-7 en.wikipedia.org) |
