Italy & States
VF RP postcard 'Italian War Demonstration, London May 27th 1915' also with placard 'Czechs Greet Italy and her Allies; Down with Austria'; on reverse a red patriotic label 'For the Independence of the Czech Nation'; cancelled by roller m/c d/s 16 June 1915; sent across London from Notting Hill to Holloway Road; a superb rare patriotic card of the period Reference: 1245 |
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Italy 10c PS card cancelled 'Posta Militare No 97' 10 March 1918, from Genoa (?) to Switzerland ; b/s black Censor's h/s '37 Verificato Per Censura' & red h/s 'Milano Posta Estera'; from a soldier in the 10th battalion (?); a nice combination Reference: 1240 |
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Italy 4 x 20c + 5c definitives cancelled bridged cds Milan 6 March 1942; opened by German Censors and resealed with "Geoffnet" label; sealed with German swastika cachet and confirmed by various small control h/s; b/s large cds UFFICIO CENSURA POSTA ESTERA II 7 March 1942; Â a nice combination Reference: 1193 |
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25c Cérès (SG 211a) with 'grande cassure' plate flaw on top; cancelled 14 October 1873 Paris Rue Taitbout; underfranked to Rome; red postage due h/s, Italian 40c postage due cancelled Roma 18 October 1873; m/s style h/s ¢40' (the rate due); a superb rare franking Reference: 1084 |
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Military internment envelope from Berne Schönbühl to Zurich with PORTOFREI cachet; c1941; from an interned Italian soldier; h/s 822; no b/s Reference: 1002 |
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Military internment envelope with cachet CAMP MILITAIRE d'INTERNEMENT BUSSWIL; undated but c1942; to Zurich; from an Italian citizen; h/s 365; no b/s; on reverse trilingual Swiss censor label Reference: 1005 |
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Military internment envelope with cachet CAMP MILITAIRE d'INTERNEMENT FRIBOURG FRANK DE PORT; undated, but c1942; to Geneva; from an Italian internee; h/s 315; no b/s Reference: 1004 |
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Military internment envelope used within Berne, c1941, with d/r PORTOFREI cachet for an interned Italian citizen; h/s 315; incomplete b/s undated Reference: 1003 |
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10c black Type Sage cancelled with d/r cds Smyrne Turquie d'Asie 13 August 1900, to Marseille; on Pompeii Casa dei Vettii Postcard (blue background series), oval maritime cachet BM (boîte mobile) Reference: 992 |
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4 x 10 lire small definitive + 50 lire pictorial; cancelled d/r bridged bilingual cds (railway d/s) BOZENI BAHNPOST AMT; from Bolzano to Lucerne, 19 January 1948; boxed red trilingual express h/s; b/s AMB BRENERO VERONA 210, 19.1.1948, MEGGEN (LUZERN) 20.1.48 Reference: 827 |
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50c portrait issue + 30c express stamp cancelled d/r cds Napoli 3 ACCETT. RACCOM. 23 February 1921 to Lyon; violet h/s RACCOMANDATA; b/s Lyon 25 Feb 1921 (faint strike) Reference: 826 |
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1 lire and 1.75 definitives cancelled PADOVA CORRISP. PACCHI; to Split, Dalmatia, 20 June 1942, registered 'Via Aerea'; censor's tape Verificato per Censura' tied on reverse with d/r cds 24 June 1942 'Restituita....Comm. Prov. Cens. Spalato'; b/s 'Ancona Centro...' 22 June, 'Spalato Poste (Dalmazia)' 24 June 1942; a striking combination Reference: 809 |
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2 lire 1930 air stamp (SG 275) + 2 lire definitive issued August 1945 (SG 638) on airmail envelope inscribed m/s "via Transatlantic Clipper", from Rome to New York, 4 September 1945; Italian censor tape "Censura Verificato"; British censor tape "Opened by Examiner 4331"; incomplete Italian cachet on reverse; airmail envelope illustrated inside; faults to envelope Reference: 760 |
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Dante issue 25c + 2 x 1.25 (SG 317, 321) on envelope with registered label and h/s RACCOMANDATA; from Rome to Birmingham, 27 August 1932; b/s ROMA FERROVIA RACCOMANDATEO; a 'Wilson' cover from the well-known dealer Diena Reference: 759 |
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Italy 20c + 25c Dante Aligheri commemoratives (SG 316, 320) + 2 lire 55 small definitive; from Genova to Birmingham, 18 March 1932; cancelled "Genova II/Via Assarotti"; with Genova registration label; b/s Genova-Ferrovia-Raccomandate 18 March 1932; a 'Wilson' cover Reference: 746 |
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Italy 5 x 25c Victor Emmanuel on official envelope of the Commune di Altamura, to Paris, 28 January 1928; cancelled ALTAMURA bridged d/r cds with large cachet of the town 'Municipio di Altamura', on the front & on the reverse Reference: 734 |
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Definitve issue 3 x 5 lire + 5 x 10 lire for a 65 lire registered express rate, to Berne, cancelled GENOVA No. 14 d/r bridged cds 14 July 1947; black on pale plue ESPRESSO label + red Swiss tri-lingual Express h/s; b/s Milan 15 July & Bern-Hindelbank 16 July 1947; small faults to envelope Reference: 732 |
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4 x 30c EXPRESS stamp + 4 x 15c portrait issue, 1 lire 80c rate, cancelled d/r cds to Lyon 8 June 1921; b/s Lyon 10 June 1921, colourful franking Reference: 733 |
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Small definitives 1 lira, 2 lire (fault) & on reverse block 21 x 2 lire, for a 45 lire rate, all cancelled with bridged d/r cds MONTEREGGIO/MASSA CARRARA; to Olten Switzerland, 30 October 1946; m/s 'EXPRES', pink Express label, h/s 'ESPRESSO'; transit d/r PARMA 31 October (2 different); a spectacular franking. Reference: 731 |
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Complete folded entire with clearly written text (possibly in Florentine Italian), Siena to Florence May 1624; possible m/s rate mark '5'; from the Corsini correspondence Reference: 719 |
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Complete folded entire with neatly written text (possibly in Venetian Italian?), Venice to Livorno 20 May 1690; m/s rate mark '34'; part of the Venturini correspondence, Reference: 718 |
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19 July 1813, entire, with text in Italian, from the Département Conquis 116 in Rome (VF strike) to Prince Tommaso Corsini in Florence; m/s rate mark 8 décimes; on reverse h/s "23 JUILLET" Reference: 664 |
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5c Type Blanc on political satire PPC with h/s IMPRIMÉS & sender's cachet from Surenses, to Southport 24 November 1903. The postcard reflects the Franco-Italian rivalry during the height of the Dreyfus affair with French president Émile Loubet chasing Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Zanardelli around a "wall of death" as the wrongly disgraced Dreyfus looks on: with heraldic vignettes of France & Italy and a title 'Le Circle de la Vie' A rare card featuring politics, anti-Semitism & the new fangled bicycles Reference: 636 |
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Italy 10c & 25c Humbert I issues on PPC from Savona to Paris; cancelled Savona (Genova) squared circle 8 January 1900; large R registration h/s with m/s '573'; m/s 'Absent net 1c (?)" & a small Paris postman's cachet 70/2 in blue oval endorsing the manuscript; a rare use of registration on a postcard; with small faults Reference: 635 |
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Italy Railway Centenary issue 1939 2 x 20c, 2 x 50c, 1 lira 25 (SG 550-2) + 10c definitive (SG 241), Firenze to Katwijk aan Zee, Holland; 2 lire 75 registered rate early in WW2, unclear b/s; with original clear letter re stamp dealing; attractive (and railway theme) Reference: 625 |