PERU

 PERU / PERÚ.

Peruvian Exhibition in Paris.
Illustrated map of Peru.
Airmail. Last stamp in a set of 4, issued on 21.05.1958.
Face value: 2.50 Peruvian soles.
Printed by French Administration of Postal Services and Telecommunications (PTT), Paris.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 3,000,000 copies.
Size: 30 x 40 mm.

Catalogs
- Bustamante No. A143.
- Michel No. 571.
- Scott No. C157,
- StampWorld No. 561.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 818.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 141.

From May 20 to July 20, 1958, the exhibition "The Treasures of Peru" was held at the Petit Palais in Paris, an event organized to promote the history and culture of the country and at the same time, tourism and foreign investment. The sample consisted of almost 3,000 objects from private collections and Peruvian public entities: ceramic pieces, textiles and funerary objects from ancestral cultures, a collection of gold jewelery from the Inca empire, colonial furniture, paintings, photographs, typical dresses, sculptures, crafts, etc.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).