STAMP GRENADA

MEMORABILIA

Date (from) 12/06/1989 Date (to) 12/06/1989 Year 12-06-1989

Stamp from Grenada, island state Del South Eastern Caribbean Sea. Issued on 12/06/1989 for celebrate the 1990 Italian Football World Cup. Cut from 60 cents Eastern Caribbean. Paolo Rossi is depicted wearing the blue uniform, probably worn at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, number 21, in this case barely visible on the left side of the shorts. The star athlete from Prato is curiously portrayed with an olive complexion, as if to emphasise common recognition of his talent at all latitudes, appropriating a somatic connotation somatic connotation typical of that geographical area, synonymous with universal sharing and brotherhood.