CATALOGUE FIRST CARDS

     And already a long time we think to the publication of a catalogue which depicts and lists the first cards issued by all the world states, also classifying them in rareness fact.
The motivation is big,  because many fond being there already for time that undertake to collect such first emissions, according to the various technologies and utilizations, the necessity of a catalogue is heard. That allows to reduce the huge difficulties which meet the collectors in "hitting the centre" of the first paper issued by a state.
And that is not easy because if one is not now in possession of specialized catalogues, that been in many there is not, and she has not lived the birth of such cards, the risk is run of collect as first emission a telephone card instead which he is not.
Indeed, many first cards are perfectly identical even if they are second, third, fourth ... emissions.
The differentation regards the particular characteristics which have these first emissions, compared to the subsequent visually identical.

      And we are proud, to have catalogued by first the prepaid telephone card issued really by an Italian company,  SIP,  in the far one 1976, which is the first prepaid telephone card, technology SIDA, issued in the world.
Briefly his history: He goes up again the first card  to the SIP By SIDA telephone offer to 1974.
The first card telephone prorotipo is delivered to SIP,  in the November of 1975,  24 telephones equipped with card distributors, in Rome “Via Colombo - Palazzo Alessandrini” (seat of the then Italian company for the telephone exercise).
The first tests in field leave in the May 1976 and are certainly done in the public telephone place of the “Galoppatoio di Villa Borghese a Roma”.
The original card is without corner.
As you can see the history of the first issued cards he is simply charming and deserves a catalogue.
Good collection to all the fond ones.