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Cod. 2841E
EUR 30,00


Ketty Borgogno - Massimo Giuliani - Giulio Paravagna
CATALOGO DELLE VARIETA' DI RIPORTO NEI FRANCOBOLLI DELLA REPUBBLICA ITALIANA
1956-1965
Vol.2 Anno 2023

116 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian text

CATALOGUE OF THE TRANSFER VARIETIES OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC POSTAGE STAMPS
1956-1965
Vol.2 Year 2023

By Associazione Filatelia Italiana Specializzata

In this catalogue the varieties are described in detail and individually quoted, with points ranging from 0 to 4 based on the importance of the defect. For those with points equal to 1 and 0, the generic indicative quotations are shown.

The prices have been determined taking into consideration the catalogue value of the standard copy and the conspicuousness of the defect.

For each postage stamp, next to the image of the "normal" example, some of the most significant varieties are sometimes shown, also chosen from among those recently discovered.

For each variety, the group it belongs to and its position within the group itself is reported.

This vol.2 shows the issues from 1956 to 1965. The series is completed by vol.1 from 1945 to 1955 and vol.3 from 1964 to 2014.
Cod. 2708E
EUR 59,90


YVERT & TELLIER 2023 - AFRICA FRANCOFONA
Vol.1
Afars e Issas - Alto Volta

844 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
French text

YVERT & TELLIER 2023
FRENCH-SPEAKING AFRICA
Vol.1
Afars and Issas - Upper Volta

Catalogue of the postage stamps of French-speaking Africa, divided by country, in alphabetical order.

Afars and Issas (Territory of), Equatorial Africa, West Africa, Alexandria, Algeria, Anjouan, Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, French Somaliland, Dahomey, Diego-Suarez, Djibouti, Fezzan, Gabon, Ghadames, Grande Comore, Guinea, Upper Senegal and Niger, Upper Volta.
Cod. 2840E
EUR 30,00


Ketty Borgogno - Massimo Giuliani - Giulio Paravagna
CATALOGO DELLE VARIETA' DI RIPORTO NEI FRANCOBOLLI DELLA REPUBBLICA ITALIANA
1945-1955
Vol.1 Anno 2023

118 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian text

CATALOGUE OF THE TRANSFER VARIETIES OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC POSTAGE STAMPS
1945-1955
Vol.1 Year 2023

By Associazione Filatelia Italiana Specializzata

In this catalogue the varieties are described in detail and individually quoted, with points ranging from 0 to 4 based on the importance of the defect. For those with points equal to 1 and 0, the generic indicative quotations are shown.

The prices have been determined taking into consideration the catalogue value of the standard copy and the conspicuousness of the defect.

For each postage stamp, next to the image of the "normal" example, some of the most significant varieties are sometimes shown, also chosen from among those recently discovered.

For each variety, the group it belongs to and its position within the group itself is reported.

This vol.1 shows the issues from 1945 to 1955. The series is completed by vol.2 from 1956 to 1965 and vol.3 from 1964 to 2014.
Cod. 59E
EUR 35,00
Special Price
EUR 24,50


CATALOGO UNIFICATO SUPER 2023
ITALIA e ANTICHI STATI
SAN MARINO - VATICANO - SMOM

764 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 49th ed. 2022
Italian text

UNIFICATO CATALOGUE SUPER 2023
ITALY and ANCIENT STATES
SAN MARINO - VATICAN - SMOM

This catalogue puts together all the countries of the Italian area, from the Ancient States up to June 2022.

Catalogue and quotations for the postage stamps of Italian Ancient States - Kingdom of Italy - Republic of Italy - San Marino - Vatican - SMOM (Sovereign Military Order of Malta) - Local issues - Trieste A and B - Rijeka - Occupations - Offices abroad - Colonies - Somalia AFI.

Thanks to a new and more rational layout, it was possible to reduce the number of pages to make the volume more manageable while maintaining the same contents, as well as of course the necessary annual updates.

Enriched by 221 interesting articles that appeared in the monthly "L'Arte del Francobollo", available simply by framing the QR code with a smartphone. A unique opportunity to read (or to reread) what is written by the important pens of the magazine (in Italian).
Cod. 990E
EUR 39,00
Special Price
EUR 31,20


SAKURA 2023
CATALOGUE OF JAPANESE STAMPS

368 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2022
VALUATIONS IN YEN
Japanese text with titles of postage stamps also in English

Standard catalogue of Japanese stamps annually published in colour.

Catalogue of all the postage stamps: Commemorative Stamps (Pre-War Issues - Post-War Issues); Greetings; Furusato; National Parks; New Year's Greeting Stamps; Definitives; Air Mail; Booklets.

It does not include postage stamps of Military, Japanese Occupations and Manchoukuo, Postal stationery.
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. 1676E
EUR 40,00
Special Price
EUR 32,00


Albano Parini
STUDIO E CATALOGAZIONE DELLE
AFFRANCATURE MECCANICHE DEL REGNO
ITALIA ED OCCUPAZIONI 1927-1943

536 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2004
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

STUDY AND CATALOGUING OF AUTOMATIC FRANKING OF THE KINGDOM
ITALY AND OCCUPATIONS 1927-1943

The author analysed all the gazettes of the Italian Post from 1927, first year of introduction of automatic franking machines, to the end of the Kingdom of Italy, 1943. His work catalogues and reproduces more than 3700 machine franking impressions and 1500 varieties, accompanied by a short description. They are given in alphabetical order by area and then in chronological order.
Cod. 1803E
EUR 33,00
Special Price
EUR 23,10


JPS 2021 - CHINESE STAMP CATALOGUE
ILLUSTRATED IN COLOURS

412 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - pocket size - printed 2020
VALUATIONS IN JAPANESE YEN
Japanese text - inscriptions on stamps also in English

Catalogue of Chinese stamps in colour published by Japan Philatelic Society Foundation, the publisher of the famous catalogue SAKURA.

There are all the postage stamps of China from 1949, Hong Kong China and booklets.
Cod. 1952E
EUR 35,00
Special Price
EUR 28,00


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. 1929E
EUR 100,00
Special Price
EUR 80,00


Fiorenzo Longhi
AEROFILIA ITALIANA
CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO 1898-1941
CON AGGIORNAMENTO VALUTAZIONI 2011

630 pp. - 736 b/w and 390 colour ill. - hardbound - 2nd ed. 2007 revised and increased
Italian text
FREE THE UPDATE 2011
48 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2011

AEROFILIA ITALIANA
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 1898-1941
WITH VALUATIONS UPDATE 2011

Catalogue of air mail from and to the whole world. Story of Italian Civil Aviation and Air Mail through postal and complementary documents. The author makes a vast analysis, reports the reasons for every flight or show, the dates, the pilots' names. He takes into consideration not only air mail documents but also commemorative postcards, private cancels, propaganda handstamps.

In this new edition, several chapters and events have been completely revised and reorganised. Thanks to new findings, the information contained in the previous edition has been updated, both forerunners (1898-1914) and following historical periods. Some topics have been increased (for example, postal flights of 1917-1919 and of M1 and F6 dirigibles, the flights of Italian pilots abroad and of foreign pilots in Italy, Italian and foreign air lines operating in Italy, the flights of Norge and Italia, the Cruises of De Pinedo and Balbo, the flights of Francis Lombardi, L.A.T.I. and newspapers travelled by air). New subjects have been added.

Rates - In the first edition they were not included. In the present one they have been introduced starting from SISA flights in 1926, every special flight (Rome-Buenos Aires, Rome-Mogadishu, etc.), L.A.T.I. ones.

To make search easier, besides the numbering already existing, new progressive numbers have been added (from no.1 to 4.089). They have been inserted, in cameo, in every page of the catalogue, next to the previous numbering relevant to the year of the event, in every black and white photograph, in the colour tables and in the list of valuations in euro enclosed.
Fiorenzo Longhi was born in Milan in 1938 and lives by Lake Maggiore.
After obtaining the scientific A levels, he graduates in Economics and Business at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan in 1966 and works as director in an engineering company for twenty years.
Since his childhood, he cultivates the hobby of philately and history, and afterwards he passes to the study of postal history in little known fields such as the first issues of the Ottoman Empire and of Ecuador, Italian air mail and the flights of Italian pilots abroad, creating, in the course of years, some important collections and one of the most complete libraries of philately, postal history and aeronautic history.
He is awarded the maximum rewards in the National and World competitive philatelic exhibitions (6 Large Gold Medals and numerous Grand Prix from 1976 to 1978).
Since 1979, he exhibits only in the Honour Class or upon invitation in National and International exhibitions.
He publishes numerous articles, chapters in specialized books, one book and two catalogues, always dealing with little known or unreleased subjects relevant to postal history and aeronautic history.
He is enrolled in the National Register of Philatelic Jury Members since 1982 and he is an International Philatelic Jury Member.
He is enrolled in the Golden Register of Italian Philately since 1979; since 1995, in the Register of Expert Witnesses of the Court in Verbania for Philately; since 1996, in the Philately Category, in the Expert Role of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture in Verbano Cusio Ossola.
He is Life Member of the American Air Mail Society and member of the following Italian and foreign associations: A.I.E.P. International Association of Philatelic Experts (Italy, Air Mail - Ecuador, Air Mail); A.P.F.I.P Associazione Periti Filatelici Italiani Professionisti; Borsa Filatelica Nazionale; Federazione fra le Società Filateliche Italiane; Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia Postale; Istituto di Studi Storici Postali; Unione Filatelica Lombarda; A.I.S.P. Associazione Italiana di Storia Postale; A.I.D.A. Associazione Italiana di Aerofilatelia; A.I.C.P.M. Associazione Italiana Collezionisti Posta Militare; Schweizerischer Aerophilatelisten-Verein; Cercle Aérophilatélique Français; British Air Mail Society; Nido delle Aquile Museo dell'Aria.
Cod. 2165E
EUR 40,00
Special Price
EUR 28,00


Antonio A. Piga
R.S.I. 1943-1945
Catalogo degli annulli RP PAGATO e RR POSTE TS
usati come sostituti di affrancatura
LOMBARDIA - EMILIA

276 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2008
WITH VALUATIONS
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

R.S.I. 1943-1945
Catalogue of RP PAGATO and RR POSTE TS postmarks used to substitute franking
LOMBARDY - EMILIA

Study centred on the postmarks used in the RSI from 1943 to 1945 to pay postage in cash, without the sticking of postage stamps. They indicated that payment had been effected (RP PAGATO), or that the destination office had to collect it (REGIE POSTE TS).
The research is limited to the territories which became part of the Italian Social Republic on 29 September 1943, and it is extended, for the same territories, to the period of the Allied occupation.
List of the post offices in force in that period; analytical tables of the post offices which used this method of franking; valuation of the postmarks in their combinations; postal regulations relevant to the subject and much more.

CONTENTS

Thanks - Preface - Historical antecedent facts - Table 1 - Post offices - Types of postmarks - Handwritten forerunners - Cancels RPTS-RPP - Table 2 - Chiselled handstamps - Improvised handstamps - Franking additional marks - Valuations - Postal circular letters
EMILIA: Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia
LOMBARDY: Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Mantova, Milano, Pavia, Sondrio, Varese
Bibliography
Cod. 2174E
EUR 40,00
Special Price
EUR 28,00


Antonio A. Piga
R.S.I. 1943-1945
Catalogo degli annulli RP PAGATO e RR POSTE TS
usati come sostituti di affrancatura
PIEMONTE - LIGURIA

296 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2008
WITH VALUATIONS
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

R.S.I. 1943-1945
Catalogue of RP PAGATO and RR POSTE TS postmarks used to substitute franking
PIEDMONT - LIGURIA

Study centred on the postmarks used in the RSI from 1943 to 1945 to pay postage in cash, without the sticking of postage stamps. They indicated that payment had been effected (RP PAGATO), or that the destination office had to collect it (REGIE POSTE TS).
The research is limited to the territories which became part of the Italian Social Republic on 29 September 1943, and it is extended, for the same territories, to the period of the Allied occupation.
List of the post offices in force in that period; analytical tables of the post offices which used this method of franking; valuation of the postmarks in their combinations; postal regulations relevant to the subject and much more.

CONTENTS

Thanks - Foreword - Preface - Historical antecedent facts - Table 1 - Post offices - Types of postmarks - Handwritten forerunners - Cancels RPTS-RPP - Table 2 - Chiselled handstamps - Improvised handstamps - Franking additional marks - Valuations - Postal circular letters
PIEDMONT: Alessandria, Aosta, Asti, Cuneo, Novara, Torino, Vercelli
LIGURIA: Genova, Imperia, La Spezia, Savona
Bibliography
Cod. 2195E
EUR 36,00


UFI - TELEGRAMMI PUBBLICITARI ITALIANI
ITALIAN ADVERTISING TELEGRAMS CATALOGUE

224 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2009
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian text with introduction in English

Monograph no.2 - 2009
Postal stationery

Catalogue of Italian advertising telegrams from 1933, when the first advertising messages appeared to promote products, shows, fairs, lotteries, hotels, to 1938, and then from 1951 to 1960. Following a rich introduction, each telegram is reproduced and described.

CONTENTS

PREFACE
ADVERTISING: Cosa sono i telegrammi - Natura dei moduli telegrafici - I telegrammi degli anni trenta del Novecento - Consistenza degli ordini. Frazionamenti e formati - Tipi di carta e filigrana - Moduli di richiesta Mod.25 - I telegrammi degli anni Cinquanta del Novecento
VALUATION OF ADVERTISING TELEGRAMS: Telegrammi anni Trenta - Telegrammi anni Cinquanta - Conservazione
POINTS AND BASIC VALUATION: Incrementi di valore e penalizzazioni - Incrementi di valore - Penalizzazioni
BIBLIOGRAPHY - Acknowledgments
TYPES OF ADVERTISING TELEGRAMS
TELEGRAMS OF THE KINGDOM MOD.30: Tipi diversi di stemma dei telegrammi del I tipo - Varietà di stampa di alcuni telegrammi del I tipo - Varietà di stampa di alcuni telegrammi del II tipo - Pubblicità aggiunta manualmente - Prospetto riassuntivo telegrammi pubblicitari I e II tipo - Indice delle inserzioni per categoria merceologica (I e II tipo)
TELEGRAPH FORMS MOD.25: Prospetto riassuntivo moduli telegrafici pubblicitari Mod.25
TELEGRAMS OF THE REPUBLIC MOD.30: Telegrammi bicolori del 1951 - Prospetto riassuntivo telegrammi pubblicitari bicolori III tipo - Telegrammi anni Cinquanta - Prospetto riassuntivo telegrammi pubblicitari IV-IX tipo
Cod. 2204E
EUR 55,00
Special Price
EUR 44,00


Enrico Bertazzoli, Beppe Ermentini, Gianluigi Roncetti
PERFIN ITALIANI
Catalogo delle perforazioni commerciali
di francobolli dell'area italiana
CON VALUTAZIONI
ITALIAN PERFINS 2009
Catalogue of trade perforations on stamps of the Italian area
WITH EVALUATIONS

304 pp. + enclosed 32 transparent drafting paper plates with 1107 patterns - b/w ill. - format cm 17x24 - softbound - 3rd edition 2009
series «Handies»
RARITY SCALE VALUATIONS IN EURO
Italian and English text

In the CD enclosed, 608 colour reproductions of documents franked with perfins


ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

ISBN: 978-88-96381-00-7
New edition of the catalogue on Italian perfins.
Since the publication of the first catalogue in 2000 and of its update in 2005, both sold out, it has been a continuous discovery of new patterns and of new users of old or new perfins, not to mention ampler utilization periods of time and additional detailed information.
All the patterns known are now collected in the present work, illustrated by original shape and dimensions, each one accompanied by useful details (name of user and activity, place and period of use, number given by other catalogues).
A very exhaustive introduction explains the origins, usage and way of collecting perfins.

Enclosed, 32 plates, on transparent drafting paper. The 1107 patterns known have been inserted full size in boxes, in alphabetical order, with their relevant catalogue number. The plates are a really precious tool to facilitate cataloguing the perfins on documents or on fragments, a task that is often made difficult by the scarce visibility of the little holes and by the inverted and/or reversed position of the pattern.
It will suffice to select the reference pattern the closest to the perforation to be identified, and to place it onto the perfin examined, in the same position, either upright, or inverted, or reversed. When the position of the holes of the reference template coincides with the original, one will be sure of the correct classification of the specimen.

Enclosed even a CD with 608 colour reproductions of documents franked with perfins, each one with the reference to the pattern in the catalogue.


Patterns reproduction, layout and graphics by Gianluigi Roncetti. English translation by Lucio Bertolazzi.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD
* The origins
* Progress made
* The authorizations
* The first users
* Research results
* Perforating process
* Examination and understanding of the dies
* Types of perfinned stamps
* Collecting and mounting perfins
* Revenue stamps
* Postal stationery
* Rules to follow
* Diffusion of perfin collecting
* Single and multiple perforations - Devices and manufacturers
* The most important users
* Number of existing dies
* Defective perforations
* Dry markings
* Usage and classification
* Possible forgeries
* Dies and holes dimensions
* Listing problems
* Perfins' places of origin
* Perfins' date of usage
* The market
* Updating criteria
* Conclusion
* Valuations - Loose perfins - Perfins on documents
* Catalogue reading code
* Addenda
* XIX century perfins known till now

ITALIAN PERFINS CATALOGUE
* Patterns' inventory
* Monograms and trade marks
* Francalettere
* Colonies - Territories - Offices abroad
* Non commercial perforations
* Patterns to be deciphered or of uncertain interpretation
* Patterns by multiples punches or with varieties
* Austrian perfins of Trieste and other territories part of Italy (1918-1945)
* Provinces lost in the second world war
* Perfins of Italian companies abroad
* Examples of foreign perfins similar to the Italian ones
* Patterns not easily understandable
* Two-faced patterns
* Suppressed or catalogued anew patterns
* BCI and CI patterns new listing proposal
* Italian perfinned postal stationery Inventory

Bibliography
Index of names
Index of places
Italian provinces initials
EDITION 2009

VERMEIL - IPHLA 2012
Mainz, 2-4 novembre 2012

VERMEIL - CHICAGOPEX 2010
19-21 novembre 2010
(Arlington Heights, IL, USA)

DIPLOMA - ALPENADRIA EPPAN 2013 (ALPEADRIA) - Eppan/Appiano (BZ)
21-23 giugno 2013

UPDATES 2005

LARGE VERMEIL - VILLA MANIN PHIL 2005 Nazionale
16-18 settembre 2005
Villa Manin, Passariano, Friuli

VERMEIL - APS STAMPSHOW 2005 (USA)
De Vos Place, Grand Rapids, Michigan
4-7 agosto 2005

SILVER - CHICAGOPEX 2005
18-20 novembre 2005
(Chicago, USA)

SILVER-BRONZE - WASHINGTON 2006 Washington, DC, USA
World Philatelic Exhibition
27 maggio - 3 giugno 2006

BRONZE-SILVER - C7NPLE 2005
14-16 ottobre 2005
(Toronto, Canada)

EDITION 2000

VERMEIL - TEMEX 2003 (Buenos Aires)
8-13 dicembre 2003

VERMEIL - TICINO 2003 (Locarno)
18-22 giugno 2003

VERMEIL - GIFRA 2001 (Ravenna)
settembre
Nazionale italiana

LARGE SILVER - NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE EXHIBITION
25 giugno 2005
(Palmerston North, New Zealand)

LARGE SILVER - CYPRUS EUROPHILEX 2002 (Cipro)
22-29 ottobre 2002
Cod. 2206E
EUR 15,00


Alessio Franco
CATALOGO 2009 VALORI GEMELLI
DI REGNO - R.S.I. - LUOGOTENENZA
POSTA AEREA - PUBBLICITARI

168 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2009
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)

CATALOGUE OF TWIN ISSUES 2009
KINGDOM - R.S.I. - REGENCY
AIR MAIL - ADVERTISING

Catalogue of Italian twin values, that is postage stamps with the same face value but different subject, divided by type and period of issue. The author has included only the ordinary mail and commemorative issues, as being part of the same postal service, thus excluding any possible combination with air mail, express, postage-due, parcels, as they are generally considered as "non-natural twins".
The catalogue presents Kingdom of Italy from 1901, Italian Social Republic, Regency, Air Mail and Advertising. As to Air Mail, there are not the specific issues for first flights, special flights, cruises, air express, any possible combination.

CONTENTS

Author's Notes
Point tables
CHAP.I - Kingdom of Italy - Vittorio Emanuele III: Ordinary mail from Floral 1901 to Rossini 1942
CHAP.II - Italian Social Republic: Ordinary mail from G.N.R. 1944 to Bandiera 1944
CHAP.III - Regency: Ordinary mail from Lupa 1944 to Novara 1945-46
CHAP.IV - Kingdom of Italy - Vittorio Emanuele III: Air mail from Effigy 1926-28 to Empire 1938
CHAP.V - Kingdom of Italy - Vittorio Emanuele III: Advertising
Fiorenzo Longhi
CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO
DEGLI AEROGRAMMI ZEPPELIN DI ITALIA - COLONIE ITALIANE SAN MARINO - VATICANO - 1929-1939
con aggiornamento quotazioni 2017 e nuovi inserimenti
CATALOGUE OF ZEPPELIN MAIL OF ITALY - ITALIAN COLONIES
SAN MARINO - VATICAN CITY - 1929-1939
with quotes updating 2017 and new insertions

VII+281 pp. - 863 colour and b/w ill. - format cm 21x29,7 - hardbound - printed 2009
series "Handies"
Italian and English text
by Paolo Moretti FREE THE UPDATE 2017
40 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2016

ISBN: 978-88-96381-02-1
Chronological history of Zeppelin mail of the Italian area flown on Graf Zeppelin, Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin II airships, including rates.

This catalogue deals, in great detail, with Zeppelin mail of Italy, Italian colonies, San Marino and Vatican from 1929 to 1939. This list only refers to flown items for which it has been possible to assess their existence. Other mails, whose existence has not been verified yet, although mentioned in other sources, have been omitted. Items which are not genuine or fakes have been frequently mentioned, instead.
In this catalogue Zeppelin airmail stamps have been excluded, as they have already been described in philatelic catalogues.

The recording, given in chronological order, enables to trace a catalogued Zeppelin mail simply by referring to the page related to the airship's name, the year and, thus, the flight number, from which month and day of that particular flight are evident.
The flights numbering used in this work is that reported in the official original records of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin / Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei. The use of this numbering avoids arbitrary misleading information, instead providing a reference form among collectors, dealers and aviation historians.

Dieter Leder: "Zeppelin mail experts and sophisticated collectors worked together and shared their knowledge, information and covers to make this catalogue the most comprehensive data base for Zeppelin mail from Italy and its connected areas."

CONTENTS

* Preface by Dieter Leder
* Prefazione by Romano Savini
* Introduction by Fiorenzo Longhi
* Flight numbering used in the catalogue
* Postmarks or special cachets abbreviations
* Mixed franking and re-mailings
* Airship LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin" (Orient flight, Mediterranean flight, North America flights, flight to Darmstadt, to Dortmund, to Russia, Baltic sea flight, Vogtland flight, Holland flight, Hungary flight, Egypt flight, flight to Pomerania, landing flight to Nuremberg, Baltic sea circuit, landing flight to Magdeburg, Liechtenstein flight, flight to Hanover, Swabia flight, Iceland flight, Upper Silesia flight, Polar flight, South America flights, Switzerland flight, flight to England)
* Italy flight (Friedrichshafen-Rome, round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen) - Some preliminary information about Italy flight - Postmarks and special cachets of the Italian flight - Postmarks and special cachets of the Italian flight and of the 2nd S.A.F. - Some preliminary information about the "on board mail" of Italy flight
* Malta (return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen) - A few considerations on the Barcelona mail drop
* Cyrenaica (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen)
* Aegean Islands (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen)
* Greece (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen) - Mail with insufficient franking
* Italy (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen)
* San Marino (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen)
* Tripolitania (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen)
* Vatican City (round flight over Rome, return flight Rome-Friedrichshafen, South America flights, flight to the Saargebiet)
* German standard flight cachets used on flights to South America from 1934 to 1936
* Shuttle flights
* Airship LZ 129 "Hindenburg"
* German standard flight cachets used on flights to North America in 1936
* Airship LZ 130 "Graf Zeppelin II" (flight to the Sudetenland, to Görlitz, to Bielefeld, to Kassel, to Würzburg, to Eger, to Essen-Mülheim, to Königsberg)
* Italy - Postage rates
* Zeppelin airmail surcharge
* Vatican City - Postage rates to Italy

Bibliography
Picture credits
Fiorenzo Longhi was born in Milan in 1938 and lives by Lake Maggiore.
After obtaining the scientific A levels, he graduates in Economics and Business at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan in 1966 and works as director in an engineering company for twenty years.
Since his childhood, he cultivates the hobby of philately and history, and afterwards he passes to the study of postal history in little known fields such as the first issues of the Ottoman Empire and of Ecuador, Italian air mail and the flights of Italian pilots abroad, creating, in the course of years, some important collections and one of the most complete libraries of philately, postal history and aeronautic history.
He is awarded the maximum rewards in the National and World competitive philatelic exhibitions (6 Large Gold Medals and numerous Grand Prix from 1976 to 1978).
Since 1979, he exhibits only in the Honour Class or upon invitation in National and International exhibitions.
He publishes numerous articles, chapters in specialized books, one book and two catalogues, always dealing with little known or unreleased subjects relevant to postal history and aeronautic history.
He is enrolled in the National Register of Philatelic Jury Members since 1982 and he is an International Philatelic Jury Member.
He is enrolled in the Golden Register of Italian Philately since 1979; since 1995, in the Register of Expert Witnesses of the Court in Verbania for Philately; since 1996, in the Philately Category, in the Expert Role of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture in Verbano Cusio Ossola.
He is Life Member of the American Air Mail Society and member of the following Italian and foreign associations: A.I.E.P. International Association of Philatelic Experts (Italy, Air Mail - Ecuador, Air Mail); A.P.F.I.P Associazione Periti Filatelici Italiani Professionisti; Borsa Filatelica Nazionale; Federazione fra le Società Filateliche Italiane; Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia Postale; Istituto di Studi Storici Postali; Unione Filatelica Lombarda; A.I.S.P. Associazione Italiana di Storia Postale; A.I.D.A. Associazione Italiana di Aerofilatelia; A.I.C.P.M. Associazione Italiana Collezionisti Posta Militare; Schweizerischer Aerophilatelisten-Verein; Cercle Aérophilatélique Français; British Air Mail Society; Nido delle Aquile Museo dell'Aria.
GEORGE D.KINGDOM LITERATURE AWARD 2011 - AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY

ZEPPELIN STUDY GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2010

GOLD - ROSSICA 2016
20-22 maggio 2016

GOLD - IPHLA 2012
Mainz, 2-4 novembre 2012

GOLD - AEROMFILA 2011
Bucarest 23-26 giugno 2011

GOLD - NEW ZEALAND LIT. EXHIB. 2011
19 marzo 2011
(Palmerston North - New Zealand)

LARGE VERMEIL - LONDON 2010 - Festival of Stamps
Londra, 8-15 maggio 2010

SILVER - CHICAGOPEX 2010
19-21 novembre 2010
(Arlington Heights, IL, USA)
Cod. 2265E
EUR 16,00


Angelo Calcagno - Eupremio Malorzo - Guido Cerutti
CATALOGO DEI BOLLI ITALIANI DI
ASSISTENZA E BENEFICENZA 1915-1918

70 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2010
Limited numbered edition of 350 copies
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

CATALOGUE OF ITALIAN STAMPS
ASSISTANCE AND CHARITY 1915-1918

Catalogue, edited by the National Association of Commemorative Stamps Collectors, of Italian Assistance and Charity stamps issued between 1915 and 1918 to support war economically in different fields, divided in alphabetical order by issuing city.
Fiorenzo Longhi
AEROFILIA ITALIANA
CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO 1898-1941
VALUTAZIONI 2011
con errata corrige e nuovi inserimenti

48 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2011
VALUATIONS IN EURO
Italian text

AEROFILIA ITALIANA
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 1898-1941
UPDATE 2011

Story of Italian Civil Aviation and Air Mail through postal and complementary documents.
Update 2011 to the catalogue of air mail from and to the whole world, with errata and additions.

CONTENTS

* Preface
* How to read errata, additions and valuations
* Errata and additions
* Plates with 76 images of postcards and air letters
* Valuation tables with 4,413 entries (+ 324 - 4,089 were in the catalogue)
Fiorenzo Longhi was born in Milan in 1938 and lives by Lake Maggiore.
After obtaining the scientific A levels, he graduates in Economics and Business at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan in 1966 and works as director in an engineering company for twenty years.
Since his childhood, he cultivates the hobby of philately and history, and afterwards he passes to the study of postal history in little known fields such as the first issues of the Ottoman Empire and of Ecuador, Italian air mail and the flights of Italian pilots abroad, creating, in the course of years, some important collections and one of the most complete libraries of philately, postal history and aeronautic history.
He is awarded the maximum rewards in the National and World competitive philatelic exhibitions (6 Large Gold Medals and numerous Grand Prix from 1976 to 1978).
Since 1979, he exhibits only in the Honour Class or upon invitation in National and International exhibitions.
He publishes numerous articles, chapters in specialized books, one book and two catalogues, always dealing with little known or unreleased subjects relevant to postal history and aeronautic history.
He is enrolled in the National Register of Philatelic Jury Members since 1982 and he is an International Philatelic Jury Member.
He is enrolled in the Golden Register of Italian Philately since 1979; since 1995, in the Register of Expert Witnesses of the Court in Verbania for Philately; since 1996, in the Philately Category, in the Expert Role of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture in Verbano Cusio Ossola.
He is Life Member of the American Air Mail Society and member of the following Italian and foreign associations: A.I.E.P. International Association of Philatelic Experts (Italy, Air Mail - Ecuador, Air Mail); A.P.F.I.P Associazione Periti Filatelici Italiani Professionisti; Borsa Filatelica Nazionale; Federazione fra le Società Filateliche Italiane; Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia Postale; Istituto di Studi Storici Postali; Unione Filatelica Lombarda; A.I.S.P. Associazione Italiana di Storia Postale; A.I.D.A. Associazione Italiana di Aerofilatelia; A.I.C.P.M. Associazione Italiana Collezionisti Posta Militare; Schweizerischer Aerophilatelisten-Verein; Cercle Aérophilatélique Français; British Air Mail Society; Nido delle Aquile Museo dell'Aria.
Cod. 2364E
EUR 9,00

With postage stamp featuring Yuri Gagarin, issued on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first human flight in space and commemorative cancellation.



Amore Rufini
ASTRONUMISMATICA
QUADERNO AS.IT.AF. n.2

16 pp. - colour and b/w illustrations - saddle stitch binding - printed 2011
WITHOUT VALUATIONS
Italian text

ASTRONUMISMATICS
AS.IT.AF. no.2

The history of Astronautics, besides being remembered through philatelic issues, is celebrated through coins by several countries.
The present work illustrates over fifty coin issues effected by countries which took part in different space missions, including those which had their own astronauts or spacecrafts.
Cod. 2446E
EUR 32,00


Marcello Manelli
CATALOGO 2019 DELLE SPECIALIZZAZIONI
FRANCOBOLLI DEL REGNO D'ITALIA,
DELLA REPUBBLICA SOCIALE ITALIANA
E DELLA LUOGOTENENZA

180 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2019 - reprinted 2020
Italian text

CATALOGUE 2019 OF SPECIALIZATIONS
POSTAGE STAMPS OF THE KINGDOM OF ITALY, THE ITALIAN SOCIAL REPUBLIC AND REGENCY

Specialized classification which considers those varieties useful to differentiate similar postage stamps, printing or types, to be considered as constant varieties: paper, watermark, print, overprint, perforation and perforators. Occasional varieties have not been included.

As far as valuation relevant to watermark position is concerned, there are only used items, often the only ones known.

Compared to the previous edition, it contains numerous updates, among which a complete review of the chapter Essays.
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