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Cod. 2234E

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Giorgio Cerruto - Roberto Colla

FRANCHIGIA MILITARE ITALIANA 1912-1946
Prima Parte - Prima Guerra Mondiale
Cartoline in Franchigia non ufficiali

440 pp. - 2500 colour ill. - softbound - 3rd ed. 2009
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Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

ITALIAN MILITARY POST-FREE 1912-1946
First part - First World War
Unofficial post-free postcards

The present catalogue deals with Italian unofficial post-free postcards relevant to the First World War, that is those postcards printed by private companies or associations for soldiers.

Edition completely revised with respect to the previous ones, also thanks to the cooperation of several lovers of the subject.
A value for each used or unused item of postal stationery has been given. Point evaluations are based on availability, demand, preservation and aesthetic aspect.
Some useful appendixes close the work.

CONTENTS

* Preface
* Introduction
* Evaluation scale
* Notes

CLASSIFICATION OF UNOFFICIAL FREE FRANKING POSTCARDS
* First World War 1915-1918: heading only inscription; heading with flag/s on the right; heading with flag/s on the left; heading with royal coat of arms on the right; heading with royal coat of arms on the left; heading with coat of arms in the middle, or with decorations, different symbols, etc.

APPENDIX
* List of headquarters and units of the Army
* List of headquarters and units of the Medical Corps
* List of postcards with headings of ships

Cod. 927E

EUR 18,00

Giovanni Riggi di Numana

LE MISSIONI MILITARI DI PACE DELL'ITALIA 1991-1995

190 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 1997
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ITALIAN MILITARY PEACE MISSIONS 1991-1995

Italian military peace missions abroad (Palestine, ex Yugoslavia, Iraq, Albania, Somalia, Mozambique) have been, in Italian recent history, one of the best expressions of the civilization, culture and humanity of Italian people. Whenever troops leave their homeland under Italian tricolour, supported by the flag of the United Nations, there are always great problems in the communication between the troops on mission and their country.

The present work tells the postal historical happenings of Italian peace contingents, describing first the political situation within which the missions originated, then analysing their postal aspects between 1991 (end of Gulf War) and 1995 (start of the expedition to Bosnia), concluding with many technical tables dedicated to each expedition. Texts by the following authors: Brunello Bellucci, Nadir Castagneri, Vittorio Crosa, Roberto Cruciani, Giovanni Riggi from Numana, Alberto Scuffia, G. Battista Trovero.

Cod. 1683E

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Giuseppe Marchese

IL SERVIZIO POSTALE DELLA MARINA MILITARE - vol.II
L'ARMATA NAVALE NELLA PRIMA GUERRA 1915-1918

520 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2004
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MILITARY NAVY POSTAL SERVICE - Volume II
THE NAVAL ARMY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1915-1918

The volume is divided into two parts: the first one deals with the real naval army and the second one with all kinds of auxiliary ships. Battleships, cruisers, scout ships, destroyers, torpedo-boats, submarines, MAS. And then school ships, hydrographic ships, cable-ships, tankers, transport ships, tugboats, dredges, pontoons, monitors, lighters, hospital ships, ...
All the ships have been listed in alphabetical order.

Cod. 1669E

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Giuseppe Marchese

IL SERVIZIO POSTALE DELLA MARINA MILITARE - vol.I
DALLE CROCIERE ALLA GRANDE GUERRA 1892-1915

350 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2004
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MILITARY NAVY POSTAL SERVICE - Volume I
FROM CRUISES TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1892-1915

The volume is divided into different parts.
The first one deals with the period before the postal agreement of 1892 between the Ministries of the Post and the Navy; the postal agreement and the first stage of its application.
Then the postal historical part with chapters devoted to franking and military free franking, and to the postal service on board.
In the second part - the main one - the historical treatment, that is all the events connected to ships outside national ports, cruises in the Atlantic and some missions in the Red Sea, the Italian-Turkish war commonly called "Libyan War". Most important ships are illustrated and all the postmarks known are reproduced; there are also valuation tables for each period.
In the third part, there is the list and description of merchant ships chartered or commandeered during the Italian-Turkish War.
In the fourth one, there is the list of postal regulations for military free franking, postal rates and valuation of letters according to the rate used.
At the end an index with the ships operating in the period.

Cod. 94E

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Amedeo Palmieri

1848-1862 LA POSTA MILITARE TOSCANA
1849-1855 L'OCCUPAZIONE AUSTRIACA DELLA TOSCANA

206 pp. - b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and cover
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1848-1862 TUSCANY MILITARY POST 1849-1855 AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION

Fourth volume of the Monograph on Tuscany Post which concludes the work by Filippo Bargagli Petrucci. Unique text in the field with historical investigations, introductory notes, reproductions of letters, postmarks and decrees of the period.

Cod. 1983E

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the series by the Italian Post

Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi

1954 IL SERVIZIO POSTALE RITORNA ALL'ITALIA
1918-1954 pagine di storia triestina

XXII+218 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - fine art quality paper - printed 2004
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1954 POSTAL SERVICE COMES BACK TO ITALY
1918-1954 pages of Trieste history

The volume is the catalogue of the exhibition held on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the return to Italy of Trieste. It presents the history of the Post and philately in Venetia Julia and Dalmatia from the Austrian period to 1954 with about 300 photographs and material never published before.

Cod. 2461E

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LA POSTA DELLE MISSIONI MILITARI ITALIANE ALL'ESTERO
DAL 1950 AL 2010
Catalogo ragionato di classificazione e valutazione

278 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - 2nd ed. 2013
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THE POST OF ITALIAN MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD FROM 1950 TO 2010
Annotated catalogue with classification and evaluation

Published by CIFO - Association of Italian collectors of ordinary postage stamps

All the Italian military missions from 1950 to 2010, for a total number of 71 missions, with tables, mail, postcards, newspapers, leaflets, the most important postal and administrative postmarks (in CD - code 2459E - besides the pdf file of the catalogue, 249 additional pages with all the postmarks).
The catalogue is the result of a group work: Ruben Berta, Nadir Castagneri, Roberto Cruciani, Francesco Gagliardi, Claudio Ernesto Manzati, Domenico Matera, Luciano Nicola Cipriani, Piergiorgio Romerio.

CONTENTS

Premessa
Il materiale classificato e valutato
I tipi di posta
La "posta di favore"
La "posta facilitata"
La "posta provocata"
La "posta naturale"
I Servizi Postali addizionali
Le corrispondenze arrivate ai Contingenti
La posta navale ed aerea
Bolli aggiuntivi particolari, firme, ecc.
Materiale postale di appoggio alle Missioni
Principi generali di classificazione e valutazione
Scala di valori in punti e corrispondenti valori economici
Tavole di classificazione
Legenda
Classificazione delle Missioni "Oltremare"
Missioni estere secondo lo Stato Maggiore della Difesa (SMD)
Missioni estere secondo lo Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito (SME)
Classificazioni delle Missioni secondo il DPKO dell'ONU
Tabella riepilogativa delle Missioni italiane all'estero
Operazioni "Ippocampo" e "Allied Force"
Schede delle singole Missioni
Afghanistan
Albania
Angola
Bosnia Erzegovina
Cambogia
Ciad
Cipro
Congo
Danubio
El Salvador
Etiopia- Eritrea
Georgia
Golfo Persico
Guatemala
Guerra del Golfo
Haiti
Hebron (Cisgiordania)
India-Pakistan
Iran
Iran-Iraq
Iraq
Iraq-Kuwait
Kosovo
Kurdistan - Airone
Kuwait
Libano
Macedonia
Malta
Marocco
Mar Rosso
Medio Oriente
Moldova-Ucraina
Mostar
Mozambico
Namibia
Naqoura
Oceano Indiano
Palestina-Egitto
Palestina
Pakistan
Sahara Occidentale
Sharm-el Sheik
Senegal
Somalia
Sudan
Timor Est
Ringraziamenti
Bibliografia
Articoli e monografie
Siti WEB
Missioni internazionale concluse
Indice missioni in ordine alfabetico

Cod. 2459E

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VOLUME ALSO AVAILABLE - CODE 2461E

LA POSTA DELLE MISSIONI
MILITARI ITALIANE ALL'ESTERO
DAL 1950 AL 2010 - VERSIONE CD
Catalogo ragionato di classificazione e valutazione

278+249 pp. with colour and b/w ill. in CD-rom - ed. 2013 - pdf file
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THE POST OF ITALIAN MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD FROM 1950 TO 2010
Annotated catalogue with classification and evaluation

By Associazione dei collezionisti italiani di francobolli ordinari

CD with the pdf file of the catalogue (code 2461E) with all the Italian military missions from 1950 to 2010, for a total number of 71 missions, with tables, mail, postcards, newspapers, leaflets, the most important postal and administrative postmarks (in CD, 249 additional pages with all the postmarks).
The catalogue is the result of a group work: Ruben Berta, Nadir Castagneri, Roberto Cruciani, Francesco Gagliardi, Claudio Ernesto Manzati, Domenico Matera, Luciano Nicola Cipriani, Piergiorgio Romerio.

Cod. 2564E

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Rocco Cassandri - Giuseppe Di Bella - Antonio Ferrario

1860
LETTERE DALLA GUERRA D'ITALIA
SULLE TRACCE DEI GARIBALDINI

402 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2015
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1860
LETTERS FROM THE WAR OF ITALY
ON THE TRAIL OF GARIBALDI'S SOLDIERS

The Authors use postal materials as historical source, relating the historical events to postal history, and vice versa, also thanks to the fortunate recovery of two letters of that period that are systematically analyzed.

The scenery is the enterprise of Garibaldi's Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of Two Sicilies: in this context, the system of postal communications that played a strategic role in it is examined. This central event of Italian Risorgimento is narrated from a different and unreleased viewpoint, highlighting also a slice of the daily life of some participants to Garibaldi's enterprise, exploring for the first time the contents of the letters that often narrate events in a different way.

The book develops in parallel a rigorous postal-historical study of the rates and of the ways of sending mail from and to the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, highlighting the fast changes in postal communication, determined by Garibaldi's advance and by the other events connected to the development of the Kingdom of Italy.

Dealing with a period of war and revolution, the Authors have found some difficulties in finding the norms that determined the changes in the correspondence rates.

Cod. 2568E

EUR 160,00

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Pietro Giribone - Paolo Vollmeier

LE ARMATE FRANCESI IN ITALIA (1792-1814)
STORIA POSTALE E CATALOGAZIONE
2 voll.

400/384 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - hardbound with cover - printed 2015
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THE FRENCH ARMIES IN ITALY (1792-1814)
POSTAL HISTORY AND CATALOGUING
2 VOLUMES

The two authors have joint their competences in this tremendous work, rich of information and of reproductions of documents, maps, photographs, postal documents,..., divided into different chapters: historical placement according to the chronological criterion; the postal service of the Armée d'Italie; the Armée des Alpes in Piedmont and the relevant cataloguing of postal prints; the Armée de Reserve and the relevant cataloguing of postal prints; the cataloguing of the postal prints of the Armée d'Italie and of other French Armies in the period 1792-1814.

In the second volume, the catalogue lists the letters found according to origin, dating, kind of postmark and colour. No valuations are present.

Cod. 2829E

EUR 80,00

LA POSTA DELLE MISSIONI MILITARI ITALIANE ALL'ESTERO
DAL 1950 AL 2022
Classificazione e valutazione

596 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2022
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THE POST OF ITALIAN MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD
FROM 1950 TO 2022
Classification and evaluation

Published by CIFO - Association of Italian collectors of ordinary postage stamps

New edition that resumes and updates the catalogue on military missions abroad of 2013, starting from the n.1 Afis in Somalia of 1950, up to n.164 of Air Policing for the surveillance of the NATO airspace of June 2022.

One of the novelties is the introduction of three further groupings of missions, with unusual and interesting material: the Hippocampus operations, for the repatriation of compatriots, the Humanitarian missions and the Scientific ones.

The introduction illustrates the various types of postal historical material that can be collected, also taking into consideration mail that has not travelled, that which has been created retrospectively, that which is almost industrially produced in equal multiples and also other types of objects connected with mail, such as, for example, commemorative postcards, philatelic souvenirs, documents,...

The work develops by listing the missions in chronological order with explanatory cards containing the technical data and showing correspondence, postcards, newspapers, flyers, the most significant postal and administrative postmarks, the official gullers when there is a dedicated Military Post Office.

It is the result of a group work: Ruben Berta, Roberto Cruciani, Claudio Ernesto Manzati, Domenico Matera, Ernesto Vassallo.

Cod. 2843E

EUR 25,00

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Riccardo Maini

CROCE ROSSA ITALIANA
Documenti e messaggi della Seconda guerra mondiale

50 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
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ITALIAN RED CROSS
Documents and messages from the Second World War

This publication deals with the Italian Red Cross, with exclusive reference to models of duty-free postcards (including air mail) of/for prisoners of war and messages, which were used during the Second World War, without taking into consideration the documents issued by the various local committees.

Presented are the models of the prisoners, searches and connected services office (including those with reference to the Decree of the Duce of 23 July 1940-XVIII), for the ordinary and air mail services, the messages of the Eritrea Committee, of CRI International Committee, the requests of CRI to the International Committee of Geneva, the messages of the International Committee of Geneva.

In the documents reproduced, many front and back, the details that characterize them are highlighted.