Napoli's Scudetto celebrated with a special series of stamps. An expected philatetic tribute, if it were not for the fact that in this case they are author's fakes.
Il Mattino is reporting it today, giving away the prankish undertaking put in place, just as they did thirty years ago at the time of the first championship, by three former 'terrible boys' who have not lost their taste for pranks, even managing to obtain an authentic postal cancellation by sending postcards from Majorca. On the so-called 'false stamps' created by Maurizio DeFazio with his friends Pierluca Sabatino e Lello Pavilion, the inevitable Maradona, Vesuvio that erupts, Pope Francesco in action at the stadium, Kvara King of Naplesie even the Queen Elizabeth to which Thomas Starace, the historic storekeeper-mascot of the blue locker room, offers a Neapolitan coffee.
”Thirty years ago – explained creative photographer Maurizio de Fazio, reached by telephone in Greece – we were accused of fraud and even received a search by the police.
Frightened, we turned to Vincenzo Siniscalchi who was also Maradona's lawyer and in the end, after much fear, a judge established that our stamps for the purpose of goliardic, personality and psychology could not be considered fakes. If anything, fake stamps".
And then as it happened thirty years ago the 'Counterfeiters Reunited ', this is the name of the short story 'Honest Gang', could not resist the opportunity to reply. ”I involved many of my friends who sent each other postcards and the first to arrive were those that were passed through the Spanish post office which, by affixing the cancellation stamp, conferred a sort of official status to our fake stamps.
Just this morning – cso De Fazio ends the phone call – I sent myself more postcards from the island where I am now”.
The message is easy to understand “Greetings, kisses and always strength Napoli".
Article published on 3 June 2023 - 13:44
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