COVER N. 542 - BRASIL

Postmark: A C Central SE/SPM 250.11.2024

Posted on the 25th November; Received on the 11th December 2024

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Muito obrigado Luis, for this cover with stamps evocative of  old times, and also for the stamps inside it.

Valve radios. I will never forget the beautiful Nordmende radio that my father had bought probably before I was born and from which all the music that accompained me during my formative years untill I was about 15 had flowed into the air in our living roor or into the reel to reel tape recorder (also valve based, of course) whith wich I would record what I could not buy, either for lack of resources, or sheer local unavailability. 

Then, one day, for my sister's birthday, dad bought onbe of those combos with a turntable, a radio and even a cassette recorder...... and, most of all, two dettached loudspeakers...what an upgrade...

Valves, the source of wonder, were already being replaced by transistors at the time, but the Phillips reel to reel had one which emmited a green light that I found absolutely mesmerising....

The 4 stamps on the  cover themed on vintage radios and valves (1,25; 1,85; 1,95 and 2,55 reais were issued on 14FEB2018 in as souvenir sheet which also contained a couple of vignettes. When folded by the perforations the lot  could be assembled into a miniature vintage radio cabinet. Quite spiffy.

The definitive stamp with a Manicurist, (1 RS) belongs to the second definitive issue of the Professions series and it began to circulate on 06NOV2006.

As customary with Luis' covers this one was posted in the city of  São Paulo.