100 Days of COVID-19, Day 26

My Art in the Time of a Pandemic

Tiny gems

Today's stamps are from Spain and Italy. On the left are the Spanish stamps: The beautiful building on the stamps is the Colombia Pavilion. It housed the 1929 World's Fair (or Ibero-American Exposition of 1929) in Seville.

On the right are the Italian stamps: The title of this series of stamps is Italia al Lavoro and it means Italy at Work in English. For this postcard, I am using only two of the nineteen stamps in this series of pictorial definitives created during the years 1950-1958.

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*Coronavirus Disease 2019:
Update in Maryland- 4/25/2020

17,766 confirmed cases

875 deaths

Update in New York State - 4/25/2020

282,143 confirmed cases

22,009 deaths, including 17,126 in NYC

Total in United States: 938,154 confirmed cases, 53,755 deaths
Total Worldwide: 2,896,746 confirmed cases, 202,846 deaths

* All numbers are taken from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

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