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ITALY Overview

Return To Catalogue - King Victor Emanuel II - Issues of 1862-1899 - Issues of 1900-1920 - King Victor Emanuel III

Modena - Naples - Neapolitan Provinces - Papal States, (Roman States) 1851 issue - Papal States, 1867 issue and miscellaneous - Parma 1852 and 1857 issue - Parma 1859 issue - Romagna - Sardinia - Sicily - Tuscany part 1 -Tuscany part 2 - Austrian Italy

Italy fiscal stamps - Due, Official, Parcels - Locals and miscellaneous - Italian occupation of Austria - Italian occupation of the Aegean Islands - Italian post offices in China - Italian post offices Abroad (Turkey etc.) - 'La Canea' on Italy (Crete)

San Marino - Vatican - Fiume

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The earliest Italian stamps did often only have the value written on it, the following table gives the meaning of the value inscription:
1/2 = Mezzo1 = Un2 = Due5 = Cinque
10 = Dieci15 = Quindici20 = Venti25 = Venticinque
30 = Trenta40 = Quaranta50 = Cinquanta60 = Sessanta

King Victor Emanuel II

For stamps in the following or similar design with King Victor Emanuel II, click here.

10 c brown 15 c blue, image obtained thanks to Lorenzo5 c green

Other issues from 1862 to 1899

For stamps of Italy issued from 1862 to 1899, click here. Examples of this period:

5 c green, 1899 type 10 c red

1900-1920

Examples of stamps issued from 1900 to 1920, (click here for details):

40 c brown

Later issues

Some examples:


(1929 issue)


(Stamp issued around 1960, reduced size)

Stamp issued during the Allied Military Occupation (end of World War II):

Small Italian dictionary

annullamenti, annullo = cancel
Antichi Stati = Italian States
autentico = genuine
dentellatura = perforation
falsi = forged stamps
falsi d'epoca = postal forgery
foglio = sheet
francobolli = stamps
francobollo di stato = official stamp
giornali = newspaper
Lombardo Veneto = Austrian Italy
molto raro = very rare
Napoli = Naples
Non emessi = non issued
nuovo = unused
pachi postali = parcel stamp
Pontificio = Papal States, Roman States
Province Napoletane = Neapolitan Provinces
raro = rare
ristampe = reprints
saggio = test
Sardegna = Sardinia
Sassone = famous Italian stamp catalogue
segnatasse = postage due
Stato Pontificio = Papal (or Roman) States
Toscana = Tuscany
usato = used
valore = value

Websites

Signatures of Italian experts can be found on: http://digilander.libero.it/regnodisardegna/le%20sigle%20dei%20periti%20filatelici.html (in Italian).

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