Piacenza April 5th "13th National exposition
for holidays and spare time"
a special cancel was used on 5th April with a special card
Italy may 5th '81 "Idea
Europea" a set of two stamps concerning folkloristic events was issued, the first one
regarding the Marostica chess match with live chessmen, represented on the FDC cancel too
a nice maximum card with the Marostica chess square everywhere
the philatelic club of Marostica has printed 3 special covers special
covers
Merano october-december '81"World
chess championship between Anatly Karpov and Victor Kortschnoi" previously announced
with this private cancel one year before
the Italian post service has issued a special card with a
FDC cancel 1.10.81 (the first one in Italy with the text in two languages)
in october 1st a special cancel was used with the logo of
the championship
There have also been two special cards issued for the
championship
from september 29th until december 31th a special meter
slogan postmark was used. The first day of use there were a lot of wrong cancels (an
inversion between year day and hour ...)
