First Day Cover, Tokyo 1970

Code: WSI_0624
Title: First Day Cover, Tokyo 1970
Description: The envelope is affixed with a 15-Yen stamp of a silhouetted competitor inside the IVTO logo. Also prominent is a colour ink of a young man in a cap in front of the IVTO logo and torch.
The postmark dated 45. 11. 10. is a sketch of the venue, the Budokan Arena. The last numbers refer to the month and day of the competition, 45 is the year under the Japanese nengo system, which begins anew under each emperor. In this instance, this is the 45th year of Emperor Hirohito, also known as the Showa era.
Date: 1970 See all items with this value
Class: Philately See all items with this value
Item name: Envelope See all items with this value
Condition: Good
Source-name: WorldSkills International
Location: WorldSkills Museum - Shanghai
Event-type: Competition event
Event-range: Worldwide
Event-city: Tokyo
Event-country: JP-Japan See all items with this value
Format: Physical
Dimensions-width (cm): 16.3
Language-text: English; Japanese
Included in: WorlSkills Museum: physical See all items with this value