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Encyclopedia > Panini (stickers)

Panini is the brand name of an Italian firm which produces collectable stickers. The company is based in Modena and named after the Panini brothers, who founded it in 1961. It also publishes comics and magazines under the imprint Panini Comics. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A sticker is a piece of paper that contains a side that is sticky, hence its name. ... Modena (Mòdna in Modenese dialect) is a city and a province on the south side of the Po valley, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Spectacular Spider Man #100 (UK edition). ...


It became famous in the 1960s for its football (soccer) collections, which soon became objects of wide interest and are now considered a juvenile cultural phenomenon of the following decades. Rare stickers (figurine) can reach very high prices on the collectors' market. Some popular games were invented which used stickers as playing cards. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ...


Giuseppe Panini, the eldest brother and the founder of this business, and a collector himself, financed the creation of the Raccolte Fotografiche Modenesi (Modena's photographic collections), a precious archive containing more than 300,000 photographs and a similar number of postcards, describing the life of the town and the evolution of photographic art.


In 2006, Panini partnered with The Coca-Cola Company and Tokenzone to produce the first ever Virtual Sticker Album for the World Cup.


In World Cup Sticker Albums, Panini always have the names of the countries in their own languages (e.g. Germany as Deutschland, England as England, Italy as Italia and Spain as EspaƱa). Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is God Save the Queen. See also Proposed English National Anthems. ...


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Panini (stickers) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (182 words)
Panini is the brand name of an Italian firm which produces collectable stickers.
The company is based in Modena and named after the Panini brothers, who founded it in 1961.
Giuseppe Panini, the eldest brother and the founder of this business, and a collector himself, financed the creation of the Raccolte Fotografiche Modenesi (Modena's photographic collections), a precious archive containing more than 300,000 photographs and a similar number of postcards, describing the life of the town and the evolution of photographic art.
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