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San Marino Auguste Piccard's Submarine stamp 1983

San Marino Auguste Piccard's Submarine stamp 1983

$ 2.63

Availability: 18 in stock
  • Grade: VF (Very Fine)
  • Topic: Ships, Boats
  • Quality: Used
  • Certification: Genuine

    Description

    Good stamp.
    Auguste Antoine Piccard
    (28 January 1884 – 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer, known for his record-breaking helium-filled balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere. Auguste was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths. Piccard's twin brother Jean Felix Piccard is also a notable figure in the annals of science and exploration, as are a number of their relatives, including Jacques Piccard, Bertrand Piccard, Jeannette Piccard and Don Piccard.