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Cod. 1680E
EUR 16,00


Vito Salierno
LA CENSURA POSTALE IN LOMBARDIA

64 pp. - format cm 17x24 - softbound - printed 2004
series "The Recoveries"
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)

ISBN: 88-85335-75-6
978-88-85335-75-2
POSTAL CENSORSHIP IN LOMBARDY

Violation of the secrecy of the mail has always been a very usual practice in any time and everywhere, not only towards state and diplomatic letters, understandable even though unjustifiable, but also towards civil and ecclesiastic mail. Everybody knew that, so people used codes and never wrote names or about important events.

This volume deals with the subject in Austrian Lombardy, then Lombardy-Venetia, in one century or a bit more when the Austrian dominated, including French interlude.

Most information comes from the State Archives in Milan.
Cod. 9E
EUR 16,00


REGNO LOMBARDO VENETO
REGOLAMENTO POSTALE E TARIFFE
per tutte le destinazioni

108 pp. - format cm 17x24 - softbound - 2nd ed. 2002 - reprinted 2005
series "The Recoveries"
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

ISBN: 88-85335-51-9
978-88-85335-51-6
Lombardy-Venetia postal rules and rates, for every destination

Second edition of the reprint from the original text «Utile Giornale di Milano» of 1857 with all postal rates. Easy to consult. Foreword by Lorenzo Carra.
Cod. 1376E
EUR 61,97


edited by Lorenzo Carra
IL SERVIZIO PRATICO POSTALE IN AUSTRIA

518 pp. - format cm 17x24 - softbound - reprint 2000
series "The Recoveries"
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

ISBN: 88-85335-41-1
978-88-85335-41-7
PRACTICAL AUSTRIAN POSTAL SERVICE

Systematical collection of regulations relevant to Posta-lettere and mail coaches, edited by Adalberto Cassinelli on the bases of ordinances in force. First free version from German by Giulio Printz, 1865.

Reprinted from the original with the preface by Lorenzo Carra who, after an accurate and hard research, presents this important technical work rich in references to laws, articles, decrees, regulations and circulars relevant to the Post in Austria and in Lombardy Venetia. The volume is divided into 110 chapters with many appendices and several tables.
Cod. 1855E
EUR 20,00

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Emilio Diena - Leopoldo Rivolta - Alfredo E. Fiecchi
REGNO LOMBARDO-VENETO
La prima e la seconda emissione

64 pp. - b/w ill. - format cm 17x24 - softbound - reprinted 2013 (2nd ed. 2005 - 1st ed. 1990)
series "The Recoveries"
Italian text

ISBN: 88-85335-79-9
978-88-85335-79-0
LOMBARDY VENETIA KINGDOM
The first and the second issue

The notes on the postage stamps of the first and second issue are taken from the known magazine "Il Corriere Filatelico" in which they appeared serialized, written by some of the most famous authors on philately.

The volume is rich in reproductions, in enlargements which facilitate its consultation, in tables and in precise and detailed information.
edited by Paolo Vaccari
La collezione
EMIL CAPELLARO
REGNO LOMBARDO VENETO
• Die Sammlung • The collection
EMIL CAPELLARO
KÖNIGREICH LOMBARDO-VENETIEN
KINGDOM OF LOMBARDY VENETIA

260 pp. - more than 600 colour illustrations - format cm 21x29.7 - hardbound - high quality glossy paper - printed 2007
series "History through documents"
Italian, German and English text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

ISBN: 978-88-85335-88-2
The volume presents the important Lombardy Venetia collection of Emil Capellaro, one of the world greatest collectors of the subject, collection which has obtained several prestigious awards and maximum appreciation.
The 1850 issue with different types and papers, cancellations, franking, even mixed ones, forgeries, fiscal use of postage stamps and postal use of revenue stamps, newspapers postage stamps and tax fiscal.

To respect and show Mr Capellaro's choices, the original organisation of the collection has been maintained as much as possible, as to the sequence of tables and the arrangement of the more than 600 items reproduced in colour, natural size; only some tables, due to space, have been divided into more pages.
Moreover, further sheets have been included; they belong to the collection but have never been exhibited.
Cancellations are not in alphabetical order; therefore, a specific index has been created in order to make their finding easier.

The descriptions carried out by Paolo Vaccari make reference to those of the original collection.
Due to the importance of the collection Emil Capellaro, descriptions are also in German (the collector's mother tongue) and English.

CONTENTS

* Preface
* Emil Capellaro - My life as a collector
* Map of Lombardy Venetia Kingdom
* List of post offices and collecting offices of the ancient provinces
* Lombardy Venetia Kingdom - Postal historical background

* Lombardy Venetia Kingdom - The collection
* 1850 centesimi issue - types
- handmade paper
- machine-made paper
* First day of use - 1 June 1850, first day of issue
* 5 centesimi
* 10 centesimi
* 15 centesimi
- ribbed paper
- laid paper
- machine-made paper
* 30 centesimi
* 45 centesimi
* Paper folds
* Upper and lower printer's space
* Sheet corner
* Cancellations
- black ink
- azure ink
- red ink
- mute cancels with town cancel
* Franking
* Austrian postage stamps used in the Lombardy Venetia Kingdom
* Lombardy Venetia stamps used in Austrian territory
* Mixed franking
- centesimi and kreuzer postage stamps
- Lombardy Venetia first and second issue
- postage and revenue stamps - fiscal use
- postage and revenue stamps - postal use
- Lombardy Venetia and Papal State postage stamps
* Postal forgeries used for postage
- Verona forgeries
- Milan forgeries
* Postage stamps - fiscal use
* Revenue stamps - postal use
* Newspaper stamps
* Newspaper tax fiscal

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.
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Cod. 2158E
EUR 69,00
Special Price
EUR 55,20


Siegfried Deider
DIE SAMMLUNG
CAPELLARO
ÖSTERREICH 1850/54

205 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2008
German text

CAPELLARO COLLECTION
AUSTRIA 1850/1854

The volume presents the part relevant to Austria of the important collection of Emil Capellaro, one of the world greatest collectors of the subject, collection which has obtained several prestigious awards and maximum appreciation.
Reproductions of postage stamps, cancels, covers divided by subject: issue 1850 (hand-made paper) and 1854 (machine-made paper) unused; first dates of use 1-30 June 1850; examples of franking in kreuzer from 1 to 207; registration, cancels and covers; Austrian cancellations; flag cancels; dumb cancellations; Austrian office in Belgrade; the Post in Liechtenstein; Lake Garda and Mediterranean Sea Post; Field Post; ornamental covers; mixed franking, issues 1850/54 and 1858; mixed franking, postage stamps and revenue stamps; revenue stamps, postal use.
Cod. 2226E
EUR 30,00

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Massimiliano Ferroni - Mario Serone
10 CENTES.
PRIMA EMISSIONE DEL LOMBARDO VENETO

152 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2009
Italian and English text with abstract in German

10 CENTES.
FIRST ISSUE OF LOMBARDY VENETIA
Preface by Fabio Sottoriva

Study centred on the 10 centimes of the first issue of Lombardy Venetia in all its aspects analysed in details: design, typographical project and realization, printing (different quantity with respect to important scholars of the past such as Müller, De Frank, Provera and Huber, that is for hand-made paper a higher number, and for machine-made paper a lower number, more than 300.000 copies), paper, watermark, types and subtypes, list of places where the machine-made paper stamp was used, typographical characteristics, first printing, cliché wearing, printer's spaces, distance between the stamps, pin points, print on margins, types of set-off, coat of arms, sheet margins, St Andrew's crosses, colours (10 shades for the hand-made paper copies and 4 for the machine-made paper ones), use in the towns and districts, special rates and uses, items bearing peculiar franking, frauds, "forwarded", the rarest machine-made paper items, mixed franking, last dates of use, reprints. Then, the many recurrent defects of cliché: besides a rich iconography of the most visible and known defects, for some of them the different steps of deterioration in time are shown.
CONTENTS

Preface
CHAP.1 - The 10 centesimi of first issue of Lombardy-Venetian Kingdom
CHAP.2 - Postal usage
CHAP.3 - The clichés defects
Bibliography
Cod. 2683E
EUR 50,00


Francesco Dal Negro
LA POSTA NELLA PROVINCIA DI BERGAMO
dall'amministrazione Lombardo-Veneta a quella Sardo-Italiana
1850-1866

208 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2017
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian text

POST IN THE PROVINCE OF BERGAMO
from the Lombardy - Venetia administration to the Sardinian - Italian one
1850-1866

Completely colour illustrated with the reproduction of letters and postmarks, the work is composed of two parts.
In the first one a description is given of the geographic, political and economic situation of the province of Bergamo in the years over 1859, the year of the annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia; in this context the postal services on the territory, both in the Lombardy - Venetia period and in the Sardinian - Italian one, are examined too.
In the second part, that constitutes the catalogue with relevant valuations, all the 76 post offices that have operated in the province are listed alphabetically (except Bergamo, country seat, put at the beginning) and classified on the basis of the canceller postmarks used in the period examined.

The pertaining historical administrative period is taken into consideration In the introduction of the different postmarks, for the so called "pre-existing" offices, i.e. instituted in the Lombardy - Venetia period.
For the offices of new institution, created progressively from January 1860, the belonging to the Sardinian - Italian period is implied, therefore the relevant valuation is not conditioned by the peculiar historical period.

The canceller postmark, when unique, or the different and subsequent ones, when more than one, are described for every single office.
Some postmarks, in the period of their use, were impressed with inks in colour different from black, in shades that go from light blue to green.
The first and the last date known are reported for every postmark of every office.

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction
Foreword

PART ONE
1 - The Province of Bergamo in the middle of the 19th Century

2 - The postal services of the Province of Bergamo in the period of Lombardy - Venetia Kingdom until 7 June 1859
* Postage stamps and postal rates
* The agreement with the Kingdom of Sardinia
* Canceller postmarks
* The change of currency/The new postage stamps
* Post offices
* The post office in the town of Bergamo
* The postal relationships between Lombardy and Piedmont during the war period

3 - The postal services of the Province of Bergamo in the period of Provisional Government (8 June-10 November 1859)
* The annexation (provisional) of Lombardy to the Kingdom of Sardinia
* The tolerated use of Austrian postage stamps
* The introduction of Sardinian postage stamps
* The services of military on the territory of the province of Bergamo
* The French postage stamps cancelled in the civil post offices
* The postal relationships between Lombardy, Venetia and Austria, before and after the reinstatement of direct postal communications (15 September 1859)

4 - The postal services of the Province of Bergamo in the period of the Sardinian - Italian Kingdom (from 11 November 1859)
* Post offices
* The service of country mail
* The use of Sardinian postage stamps
* The supplying of Sardinian rubber-stamps
* The new weight of letters
* The new classification of post offices

PART TWO
1 - Postal - historical catalogue
* The criteria of classification
* The colour of postmarks
* Dates
* Scales of valuation of canceller postmarks for complete letters
* Registration postmarks
* Other accessory postmarks in use in the Austrian period

2 - The post offices in the province of Bergamo classified according to the canceller postmarks used (1850-1866)

Notes
Source of images
Bibliography
Cod. 2730E
EUR 50,00


Luca De Battisti - Luca Savini
SPUNTI DI STORIA MILANESE DAL XIV AL XIX SECOLO
LA POSTA DI MILANO 1849-1859
CATALOGO ANNULLAMENTI E BOLLI DELL'UFFICIO POSTALE DI MILANO

480 pp. - more than 900 colour ill. - format cm 21x29,7 - high quality glossy paper - hardbound - printed 2018
series "History through documents"
POINT RARITY SCALE
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

ISBN: 978-88-96381-27-4
SOME HINTS OF MILANESE HISTORY FROM THE XIV TO THE XIX CENTURY
THE POST IN MILAN 1849-1859
CATALOGUE OF CANCELLATIONS AND POSTMARKS IN MILAN POST OFFICE

with the cooperation of Gabriele Cafulli, Francesco Luraschi, Massimiliano Ferroni, Giuseppe Antonio Natoli

Description and cataloguing of the Lombardy Venetia postmarks in the Post Office of Milan, from which all correspondence transited, in the period from the introduction of postage stamps to the liberation of 1859. A great variety of uses, shapes, colours, a continuous experimentation of new technologies for the production of handstamps, inks, stamps, papers.

For each handstamp, the characteristics of the impression (size and type of characters); any changes made over time and, when significant for classification, the evolution of the impression in the period of use with different degrees of wearing; the intended use specifying if and when the handstamp was used; the total period of use and the period observed for each intended use; the degree of rarity for each type of use (stamp or cancellation).

Maximum space for "typological" cancellations and postmarks, i.e. those regularly used for a certain period of time or even occasionally in very specific situations. Only a nod is given for the errors in the dates (missing, inverted, etc.) Exhaustive and complete the classification of squared and small circle stamps based on different types in perfect chronological sequence.

Some sections complete the catalogue: examples of the various cases of error in the date composition, registered letters, more details.

Thanks also to the cooperation of enthusiasts and scholars of the most diverse disciplines, the work presents, in addition, Milan postal history from its origins to the end of Austrian domination, the postal reform, postal rates and services, the first and second issue postage stamps, insights, a historical overview.

CONTENTS

Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgements

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
* Lombardy Venetia Kingdom
* The city in the XIX century
* Political events
* Bibliography

HINTS OF POSTAL HISTORY IN MILAN BETWEEN XIV AND XIX CENTURIES
* Merchants towards new models
* Diplomacy and the beginnings of postal services
* The Post in Milan at the time of Simone Tasso
* The post by horse technique and state service
* From postal marks to cancels
* A short postmark chronicle
* Mail boxes in Milan
* The seat of the Post Office in Milan
* Crossed check for letters leaving from Milan Post Office
* Documents
* Bibliography

POSTAGE STAMPS
* The postal reform
* The first issue
* Forgeries in Milan
* The second issue
* Postage stamps for newspapers
* Postage-due labels
* Bibliography

RATES AND POSTAL SERVICES
* Postal rates
* Postal services in Milan
* 1859 in Milan
* Bibliography

CATALOGUE OF CANCELLATIONS AND POSTMARKS IN MILAN POST OFFICE FROM 1849 TO 1859
* Introduction
* Table of cancellations and postmarks
* Line cancellations on three lines (Roman capitals and small circle)
* Roman capitals on two lines
* Squared with year
* Dumb cancellations
* C4 - 4 circles with hours
* C1 - 1 circle simple
* CO - 1 circle with decoration
* CO59 - 1 circle with decoration and year
* Occasional nominal postmarks and cancellations
* Handwritten marks
* Accessory postmarks
* Postmarks and cancellations I.R. Spedizione Gazzette
* Bibliography
* APPENDIX - Summary tables of rarity scales
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