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Cod. 2854E
EUR 20,00


Italo Robetti e Achille Vanara
LA COMUNICAZIONE EPISTOLARE DA E PER TORINO
VOL.VI - I BOLLI DELLA NAZIONE PIEMONTESE (1800-1802)
Parte seconda

174 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
Italian text

THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
VOL.VI - THE "PIEDMONTESE NATION" POSTMARKS (1800-1802)
Second part

The departure postmarks used by Piedmont post offices since the middle of the year 1800, prepared for as many as 102 post offices existing at the time. The offices covered in the first part were 50; in this second part the remaining ones, again in order of first use of the relative mark.

The authors were able to detect unknown postmarks and dates that anticipated or extended the period of use that appeared in Vollmeier's great work.

Considering the places where the High Police Courts were established, namely Turin, Ivrea, Mondovì, Asti, Alessandria, Vercelli, it was possible to establish that the post offices of these localities were the first to receive the departure postmarks of the "Piedmontese nation".

An element that positively characterized the postal service in the Kingdom of France was the use of postmarks, which allowed clerks to apply the correct rates and recipients to know the place from which the letter had left. With the second French invasion in 1800, postal customs from across the Alps made their way into occupied Piedmont. The postal clerks had already noticed the presence of the postmarks on correspondence from France and understood their usefulness. They also knew that this use would sooner or later also be introduced in the Piedmont offices and, while awaiting these postmarks, they were precursors, since they added the name of the departure place by hand.

With the annexation of Piedmont to the French Republic, the Sardinian postal service was also Frenchised and the Paris Post Administration Office sent the new departmental marks, characterized by the department number, to the most important post offices in Piedmont. They replaced the postmarks of the "Piedmontese nation".

CONTENTS:

Post offices treated in alphabetical order:

Aosta, Avigliana, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Breglio, Broni, Caluso, Canale, Caraglio, Carmagnola, Casalborgone, Caselle, Cassine, Castiglione Chatillon, Cavaglià, Cavour, Chivasso, Ciriè, Cocconato, Cortemiglia, Costiglione d'Asti, Cuorgnè, Demonte, Dogliani, Dronero, Fenestrelle, Foglizzo, Garezzo, Gassino, Giaveno, Lanzo, Masserano, Moncalieri, Moretta, Nizza Monferrato, None, Oulx, Rivarolo, Saluzzola, San Benigno, San Damiano, San Germano, San Giorgio, San Salvatore, Sant'Antonino, Santhià, Scarena, Sommariva, Sospello, Strambino, Torre San Giovanni, Veneria, Verres, Villanova.

Cod. 2485EC
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by the Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Tarcentino
ANNULLI TONDO-RIQUADRATI E DOCUMENTI POSTALI
DEL "FRIULI"
COFANETTO

colour card slip-case with title of the work in 5 vols.

"FRIULI" SQUARED CIRCLE POSTMARKS AND POSTAL DOCUMENTS
SLIP-CASE

Slip-case to collect the 5 volumes of the complete work.
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by the Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Tarcentino
ANNULLI TONDO-RIQUADRATI E DOCUMENTI POSTALI
DEL "FRIULI"
OPERA COMPLETA

5 vols. - 400 total pp. - b/w and colour ill. - saddle stitch binding
Italian text

"FRIULI" SQUARED CIRCLE POSTMARKS AND POSTAL DOCUMENTS
COMPLETE WORK

The squared circle postmarks used in the provinces of Udine and Pordenone, divided into five volumes by districts and post offices in alphabetical order. Information is given such as indication of denomination, type and class, fractional numbers, besides the reproduction of postmarks and of one postal document bearing it, of possible varieties.
Cod. 2781E
EUR 30,00


Italo Robetti & Achille Vanara
LA COMUNICAZIONE EPISTOLARE DA E PER TORINO
VOL.VI - I BOLLI DELLA NAZIONE PIEMONTESE (1800-1802)
Parte prima

264 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2021
Italian text

THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
VOL.VI - THE "PIEDMONTESE NATION" POSTMARKS (1800-1802)
First part

The departure postmarks used by Piedmont post offices since the middle of the year 1800, prepared for as many as 102 post offices existing at the time. The offices covered in this first part are 50 in order of first use of the relative mark.

The authors were able to detect unknown postmarks and dates that anticipated or extended the period of use that appeared in Vollmeier's great work.

Considering the places where the High Police Courts were established, namely Turin, Ivrea, Mondovì, Asti, Alessandria, Vercelli, it was possible to establish that the post offices of these localities were the first to receive the departure postmarks of the "Piedmontese nation".

An element that positively characterized the postal service in the Kingdom of France was the use of postmarks, which allowed clerks to apply the correct rates and recipients to know the place from which the letter had left. With the second French invasion in 1800, postal customs from across the Alps made their way into occupied Piedmont. The postal clerks had already noticed the presence of the postmarks on correspondence from France and understood their usefulness. They also knew that this use would sooner or later also be introduced in the Piedmont offices and, while awaiting these postmarks, they were precursors, since they added the name of the departure place by hand.

With the annexation of Piedmont to the French Republic, the Sardinian postal service was also Frenchised and the Paris Post Administration Office sent the new departmental marks, characterized by the department number, to the most important post offices in Piedmont. They replaced the postmarks of the "Piedmontese nation".

CONTENTS

Post offices treated in alphabetical order:

Acqui, Alba, Alessandria, Asti, Bagnasco, Barge, Bene, Biella, Borgo d'Ale, Bra, Busca, Cairo, Canelli, Carignano, Casale, Castelnovo, Cavallermaggiore, Centallo, Ceva, Cherasco, Chieri, Cigliano, Crescentino, Cuneo, Donas, Fossano, Ivrea, Livorno, Moncalvo, Mondovì, Montanaro, Montechiaro, Oneglia, Ormea, Pinerolo, Poirino, Racconigi, Rivoli, Saluzzo, Susa, Savigliano, Torino bolli interno, Torino bolli estero, Torino franchigia, Torino franca, Tortona, Trino, Valenza, Valperga, Vercelli, Vigone, Villafaletto, Voghera.

Cod. 2485E
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by the Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Tarcentino
ANNULLI TONDO-RIQUADRATI E DOCUMENTI POSTALI
DEL "FRIULI" - Parte quinta: Province di Udine e Pordenone
Aggiornamenti - Tabelle riassuntive
Catalogo impronte - Elenco Stabilimenti Postali

68 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2012
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)

"FRIULI" SQUARED CIRCLE POSTMARKS AND POSTAL DOCUMENTS
Fifth part: Provinces of Udine and Pordenone - Updates
Summarizing Tables - Catalogue of postmarks - List of Post Offices

The present fifth volume updates the squared circle postmarks used in the provinces of Udine and Pordenone.
Then the post offices and the catalogue of postmarks from the following districts: Udine, San Daniele, Spilimbergo, Maniago, Sacile, Pordenone, San Vito al Tagliamento, Codroipo, Latisana, Palmanova, Cividale, San Pietro al Natisone, Moggio Udinese, Ampezzo, Tolmezzo, Gemona, Tarcento.
Included also the postmarks of the travelling and telegraph offices.
At the end, an alphabetical list of the 17 districts and their post offices.
Cod. 2148E
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by the Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Tarcentino and by Mario Pirera, Pierantonio Viotto and Gabriele Gastaldo
ANNULLI TONDO-RIQUADRATI E DOCUMENTI POSTALI
DEL "FRIULI" - Parte quarta
Provincia di Udine - Distretto di Udine - Aggiornamenti

68 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2008
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)

"FRIULI" SQUARED CIRCLE POSTMARKS
AND POSTAL DOCUMENTS
Fourth part - Province of Udine - District n.1 of Udine - Updates

The present fourth volume introduces the squared circle postmarks used in the province of Udine, in the District n.1; in addition, the post offices of Forgaria, Cornino and Flagogna in the District n.3 of Spilimbergo.
Divided by post office in alphabetical order, with the indication of denomination, type and class, fractional numbers, the reproduction of the postmark, of one postal document bearing it, of possible varieties.
Cod. 1988E
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by the Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Tarcentino and by Mario Pirera, Pierantonio Viotto and Gabriele Gastaldo
ANNULLI TONDO-RIQUADRATI E DOCUMENTI POSTALI
DEL "FRIULI" - Parte terza - Provincia di Udine - Distretti di:
San Daniele del Friuli - Codroipo - Latisana - Palmanova -
Cividale del Friuli - San Pietro al Natisone - Tarcento

88 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2007
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)

"FRIULI" SQUARED CIRCLE POSTMARKS
AND POSTAL DOCUMENTS
Third part - Province of Udine - Districts of San Daniele del Friuli - Codroipo - Latisana - Palmanova - Cividale del Friuli - San Pietro al Natisone - Tarcento

The present third volume introduces the squared circle postmarks used in the province of Udine from 1891 to 1913.
Divided by district, it presents the different post offices, in alphabetical order, with the indication of denomination, type and class, fractional numbers, the reproduction of the postmark, of one postal document bearing it, of possible varieties.
Cod. 1916E
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by the Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Tarcentino and by Claudio Gottardis and Mario Pirera
ANNULLI TONDO-RIQUADRATI
E DOCUMENTI POSTALI DEL "FRIULI"
Parte seconda - Provincia di Udine - Distretti di: Ampezzo - Tolmezzo - Moggio Udinese - Gemona

82 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2006
Italian text

"FRIULI" SQUARED CIRCLE POSTMARKS
AND POSTAL DOCUMENTS
Second part - Province of Udine - Districts of Ampezzo - Tolmezzo - Moggio Udinese - Gemona

The present second volume introduces the squared circle postmarks used in the province of Udine from 1891 to 1913.
Divided by district, it presents the different post offices, in alphabetical order, with the indication of denomination, type and class, fractional numbers, the reproduction of the postmark, of one postal document bearing it, of possible varieties.
Cod. 1915E
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by the Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Tarcentino and by Mario Pirera and Pierantonio Viotto
ANNULLI TONDO-RIQUADRATI
E DOCUMENTI POSTALI DEL "FRIULI"
Parte prima - Provincia di Pordenone

94 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2006
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

"FRIULI" SQUARED CIRCLE POSTMARKS
AND POSTAL DOCUMENTS
First part - Province of Pordenone

The present first volume introduces the squared circle postmarks used in the province of Pordenone from 1891 to 1913.
There is a postal-historical introduction followed by the table of post offices with the indication of denomination, type and class, fractional numbers, district; then, for each post office, in alphabetical order, there are the reproductions of the postmark, of one postal document bearing it, of possible varieties.
Cod. 61A
EUR 150,00


SASSONE 2021 - ANNULLAMENTI
ANTICHI STATI ITALIANI - TERRITORI ITALIANI DELL'IMPERO AUSTRIACO - LEVANTE AUSTRIACO - REGNO D'ITALIA (RE VITTORIO EMANUELE II)

768 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - 75th ed. 2020
Italian text

SASSONE 2021 - CANCELLATIONS
ITALIAN STATES - ITALIAN TERRITORIES IN THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE - AUSTRIAN LEVANT - KINGDOM OF ITALY (KING VITTORIO EMANUELE II)

The only catalogue with all the cancellations used in Italy up to 1865 has been greatly revised, with updates indicated by the best experts in the subject.

This edition presents point valuations (converted into quotations at the beginning of each chapter) for every cancellation used in the different pre-unity states starting from the pre-adhesive period just before the introduction of postage stamps to the use of "numeral" cancellations.

Moreover, all cancellations used in the Italian Territories of the Austrian Empire, in the Austrian Levant, in the offices abroad, and all French marks used to cancel postage stamps of the Italian area on mail travelled "Via Sea", the cancellations of Navigation on the great Italian Lakes, the use of French postage stamps in the offices of Civil Post in 1859 and 1860, maritime mail, the great Italian harbours.

Compared to the previous edition of 2015, the valuations of the prefilatelic cancellations have been gathered in a single chapter and two new ones have been added: one dedicated to the accessory cancellations; the other to the Third War of Independence (1866), with the listing and valuation of "Austrian" and "Italian" franking and their use in the post offices in Veneto and Friuli.
Cod. 1952E
EUR 35,00
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Paolo Vaccari
ANNULLI NUMERALI ITALIANI
1866 - 1889
Catalogo con valutazioni
With translation in English

400 pp. - 48 pages with colour plates - format cm 17x24 - softbound - printed 2006
series «Handies»
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian and English text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

ISBN: 88-85335-86-1
978-88-85335-86-8
ITALIAN NUMERAL CANCELLATIONS
1866 - 1889
Catalogue with valuations

Over the years a lot of important collections have been examined as well as numerous submissions from collectors and lovers have been received.
That has allowed to update the over 75,000 pieces of data contained in this catalogue, which present about 7,000 variations compared with the previous edition. This amount may appear very high; however, one must keep in mind that this sector of cancellations, since the publishing of the Ricci - Vaccari edition of 1992, has kept expanding among the collectors and consequently the research has grown more and more, leading to the discovery of material which had been neglected for years.

In this edition, the historical section has been revised as well and is now totally in colour, even if it has not been necessary to change the text in its substance. The illustration section has been completely changed so that it will be easier to recognize the type of the nominal cancellations which went together with the numeral ones, thanks to the colour pictures.

CONTENTS

* Presentation
* Postal-historical introduction
* Colour Plates
* How to read the catalogue
* How to consider points
* Evaluation of the postage stamps valid during the period of use of numeral cancellations

* Catalogue of offices
* Index of regions
* Index of ancient provinces

* Travelling post offices
* Lake services
* Italian post offices abroad
* List of the numeral cancellations of offices with the same number

* List of post offices ordered by numeral
* List of post offices in alphabetical order

Translation in English

Bibliography
Paolo Vaccari took up the hobby of philately and postal history as a child by collecting postage stamps and participating in exhibitions, conferences and seminars. In 1977 he decided to put his wealth of experience and knowledge into practice when he turned his passion into a business to which he could dedicate all his time. The postal history and stamp business was enriched with the publishing activity in 1989, together with his daughters, which came to publish important volumes of philatelic literature, some of them written by Paolo Vaccari himself. From this date onward he has published about 100 catalogues and numerous treatises on postal history, among which the "Catalogo Vaccari - Francobolli e storia postale - Antichi Stati Italiani, Governi provvisori, Regno d'Italia - 1850-1900". The catalogue has reached its XIV edition, after 20 years of publication, and over the years has received prestigious recognition nationally and internationally. Furthermore, "Vaccari Magazine", whose editor is Paolo Vaccari, has also achieved excellent worldwide recognition and celebrated thirty years in 2018.

Paolo Vaccari received the Philatelic Oscar from the Italian Academy of Philately and Postal History for the numerous studies he has published.
For the volume "Sicilia 1859 - Comparative plates of stamps" he received the award of the Italian Philatelic Press Union.
He has received over one hundred awards of recognition worldwide for his written and published works.
He also received the "Regione Toscana" cup and the "Fiorino d'Oro" for displaying specialized collections centred on the Grand Duchy of Tuscany philately of the XIX century.
In 2008 he received the "Ragno d'Oro - UNICEF" award in the trade category, an award granted to people from Modena who have contributed to increasing the prestige of the city of Modena within the country and abroad.

He is a philatelic expert for the C.C.I.A.A. and the Court of Modena.
He has taken part in appraisals and provided expert analyses for Credit Institutions.
He is a member of the national register of journalists, special section, and of the "Unione Stampa Filatelica Italiana" (USFI).
He was a member of the "Club Elite de la Philatélie" of Monte Carlo, presided over by Prince Ranieri, a closed number club in which the 100 most important philatelic experts worldwide may take part, receiving the highest Monacan recognition each time, the Ranieri gold medal.
He is a member of the "Académie Européenne de Philatélie" with headquarters in Paris.
He was a member of the "Consulta per la filatelia del Ministero delle Comunicazioni".
He was named honorary partner of the prestigious "Associazione Italiana di Storia Postale" (A.I.S.P.) with headquarters in Milan, and of the "Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia Postale" in 2009.
He is a member of the "Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Antiche Province Modenesi";
of numerous Italian and foreign philatelic associations;
of the "Accademia dello Scoltenna".
He is a member of the Philatelic Veterans Register since 1985.
Since 1993 he has been a Trade Master with 40 years of experience in the business at the time.
GOLD - ALPE ADRIA 2007
1-3 giugno 2007
CAORLE (VE), Italy

VERMEIL - WIPA08
Vienna
18-21 settembre 2008

VERMEIL - ROMAFIL 2007
Palazzo dei Congressi Roma EUR
12-14 ottobre 2007

VERMEIL - NEW ZEALAND 10TH NATION. PHILATELIC LITERATURE EXHIBITION
30 giugno 2007
(Palmerston North, New Zealand)

SILVER - CHICAGOPEX 2007
16-18 novembre 2007
(Arlington Heights, IL, USA)

DIPLOMA - SINDELFINGEN 2007
Sindelfingen, Germany
26-28 ottobre 2007

NOT COMPETING - APS STAMPSHOW 2007
Portland, Oregon, USA
9-12 agosto 2007
Cod. 1917E
EUR 15,00
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EUR 12,00


Sisto Iob
DOPPI CERCHI DEL FRIULI
1867 - 1879

94 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2006
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian text

FRIULI DOUBLE CIRCLE CANCELLATIONS
1867 - 1879

The volume presents the double circle cancellations introduced in Friuli after its reunification to Italy following the third war for independence, from 1867 to 1879.
The first part introduces postal items such as the postage stamps used and the documents bearing cancellations, and their combinations.
The second part is more specific. It presents, for each post office, the characteristics of the cancellations, their use, their period of use, their preservation, and any possible retouch.
Several reproductions of cancellations and postal documents.
Daniele Prudenzano
IL NUOVO GAGGERO
Catalogo dei bolli tondo-riquadrati
del Regno d'Italia
2016

296 pp. - b/w ill. - format cm 17x24 - softbound - 2nd edition 2016
series «Handies»
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

ISBN: 978-88-96381-14-4
THE NEW GAGGERO
Catalogue of squared circle postmarks of the Kingdom of Italy 2016

This second edition of the catalogue introduces numerous changes compared to the first one, brilliantly edited by Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi.
It is not a simple update of the squared circle postmarks of the Kingdom of Italy (1890-1920), though it includes more than 1,200 new findings (now 8,204 postmarks are included in the catalogue): for example, it highlights all the postmarks seen and known for sure up to now, accompanying them with the first and the last year of use known; it shows, in consideration of the particular type of mark, the separation of the writing of the upper crown and of the lower crown, allowing a precise identification; more than 20 pages of introduction with historical details, the origin, philatelic background, criteria of evaluations, shapes and typology of postmarks, point valuations.

The catalogue is divided by region and in alphabetical order by province. Moreover, it is accompanied by a very useful index of places with the relevant number of catalogue and province initials.

It collects more than fifty years of researches by scholars, who have gathered a huge amount of data and who have made it available with great sensibility and collaboration.
LARGE VERMEIL - EXPO 2019 c/o PHILTEMA
Cinisello Balsamo 11-13 ottobre 2019

LARGE VERMEIL - ITALIA 2018
23 novembre 2018
Cod. 2783E
EUR 20,00


Marco De Biasi
LE COLLETTORIE POSTALI DELLA PROVINCIA DI BELLUNO
dal 1867 al 1917

68 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2020
series "Quaderno AISP" n.1
Italian text

THE COLLECTING OFFICES IN THE PROVINCE OF BELLUNO
from 1867 to 1917

The purpose of this contribution is to provide an updated and as complete as possible overview of all the collecting offices in the province of Belluno, starting from when, after a long Austrian period, in 1866 it became Italian, until the beginning of November 1917, because during the retreat following Caporetto defeat, all post offices and collecting offices in the province were closed.

In this study the author, using a lot of material also from other collectors and many archival data, did not limit himself to classifying the specific italics, octagonal, squared postmarks, but he went further by also taking into consideration those with large circle, squared circle and guller type.

He did not deal only with postmarks: he went deeper by explaining the functioning of these collecting offices and their evolution.

The table presented is very interesting and, above all, also applicable to many other Italian provinces and situations.
No points or rarity valuations have been assigned.
Cod. 2804E
EUR 48,00


Mario Pozzati
REPERTORIO DELLE AGENZIE E DEI RECAPITI P.T.

348 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2021
Italian text

DIRECTORY OF AGENCIES AND P.T. DELIVERIES

Postal deliveries, classified as Agencies until 1952, or rather the offices in certain locations given with a license to private individuals upon their request, have always constituted an intriguing chapter in postal history and in particular in marcophilia.

The work is structured by regions in geographical order (from North to South and from West to East), starting with the regional capital city and then moving on to the other provinces in alphabetical order.
Each chapter opens with a list of known services, a table listing the various salient dates of its history. In addition to postal / administrative data and to reproductions of the various postmarks of each office, it includes a historical description of the licensed office (institution, company or hotel), with extensive iconographic documentation.

The work is completed by summary indexes and tables: agencies not considered; agencies in geographical, alphabetical order, by opening date, by type of licensed office.

For marcophiles the attraction of their postmarks is undoubted, both because they are largely difficult to find, and because, although they are ordinary marks, they have in themselves a character of specialty and "out of order", but the volume is interesting and pleasant even outside the philatelic world, as it represents a mirror of almost a century of Italian life, in its economic, political and customs aspects.

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