Here we go again....on my favorite chase back into history when real people, people like you and
me worked, farmed, had sex, but how they survived without HDTV and a good laptop, I will never understand. Just tough hombres.
Mariano (not Rivera--greatest closer ever, but I digress, Mariana Matamoros. Lived to the great of double fours...44 (always a good number for you dice game APBA geeks like me). 1979-1814.
Inevitably or so it seems, all these stamp dudes were some level of hero/soldier. This gent was ordained a Roman Catholic priest back in the day but eventually took sympathy for those fighting for Mexican's independence from Spain. He rose up the military ranks and fought till he couldn't........captured and killed. He is a hero in Mexico with monuments and even towns named after him.....just another who knew. All this info was easy to find because the stamp identified the guy... a research short cut for today, points deducted.
The stamp is another search and an easy one. This is a 1971 $2 airmail stamp created by Diego Rivera. I have this great fictional intelligence source that tells me this Diego Rivera artist is a cousin to the great baseball artist, Mariana Rivera.
Think about it. This Mariana Matamoros fought the good fight and died so these two Rivera dudes could live to paint the corners....one with paint and ink, the other with a cutter.
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