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Cod. 2203E
EUR 75,00
Special Price
EUR 45,00
FREE the miniature sheet
with the stamps of
100 YEARS FROM THE FIRST FLIGHT
Mario Cobianchi
PIONIERI DELL'AVIAZIONE
IN ITALIA
1908-1914
IN ITALIA
1908-1914
604 pp. - 128 tables with b/w ill. - format cm 21x29.7 - hardbound in colour - printed 2009
series "Meeting History"
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)
ISBN: 978-88-85335-94-3
PIONEERS OF AVIATION IN ITALY 1908-1914with update notes, with references to the Catalogue of "Aerofilia italiana", and errata by Fiorenzo Longhi
The work written by Mario Cobianchi, pioneer of Italian aviation, has been updated and enriched thanks to the several comments and the errata, included as foot notes, by Fiorenzo Longhi, one of the masters of Italian Aerophilately.
The volume by Cobianchi, published in 1943 and difficult to be found since long, "encyclopaedia" about the pioneering period of flight in Italy, is rich in information and documents gathered by the author himself, rare and historical illustrations of air tracks, drill grounds, postcards and photographs, flight attempts and experiments, aviation competitions and shows, flight forerunners, aircrafts.
It describes, day by day, all the aviation events of the pioneering period, whose end is internationally fixed in 1914, with dates and names of flight competitions, pilots and winners, flight licences of Italians, both military men and civilians, position in Europe, aircraft building factories, heroic experiments, pioneers' accidents (unfortunately some deadly).
CONTENTS
Foreword
* 1908-1909 - Today, we will fly
* 1910 - The beginnings of aviation in Italy
* 1911 - The Italian military aviation starts gaining ground
* 1912 - The fervent aviation activity for the war in Libya
* 1913 - The great flights
* 1914 - The wonderful air trips
* 1904-1914 - The different aviation activities
Fiorenzo Longhi
PILOTI ED AEREI DAL PACIFICO ALLE ANDE
Primi voli postali in Ecuador
Primi voli postali in Ecuador
280 pp. - 284 b/w ill. - 7 maps - colour cover - printed 1995
Italian text
The fruits of twenty-years research, the book deals with an unknown aspect of Italian aviation history, about which nothing has been written before, and presents images unpublished both in Italy and in Ecuador. Every piece of information has been taken from Italian and Ecuadorian museums, from the archives of South American newspapers, Historical Office of Aviation and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The author underlines the close connexion between aviators and Italian planes, and the rise and development of Ecuadorian aviation. There is no similar example of such a lasting and continuous link between the aviation history of two different countries.
The book narrates the life of the Italian pilots who have made their contribution to aviation development in South America, and tells the story of three pilots from Friuli in Ecuador: Antonio Eolo Paolo from Pordenone, Elia Liut from Fiume Veneto, Tullio Petri from Tavagnacco. On all Italian pilots and these of Italian origin, the author gives information about their biography, from birth to death, including their feats during First World War with relevant decorations obtained. Unpublished previously are the parts on Mirafiori's «Chiribiri» and Cameri's «Gabardini», the complete biography and adventurous life of Cosimo Rennella, tenth in the list of ace pilots of Italian Royal Armed Forces in the First World War.
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.
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. 1929E
EUR 100,00
Special Price
EUR 80,00
Fiorenzo Longhi
AEROFILIA ITALIANA
CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO 1898-1941
CON AGGIORNAMENTO VALUTAZIONI 2011
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
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.
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. 2225E
EUR 100,00
Fiorenzo Longhi
CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO
DEGLI AEROGRAMMI ZEPPELIN DI ITALIA - COLONIE ITALIANE SAN MARINO - VATICANO - 1929-1939
con aggiornamento quotazioni 2017 e nuovi inserimenti
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
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.
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)
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)
Fiorenzo Longhi
AEROFILIA ITALIANA
CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO 1898-1941
VALUTAZIONI 2011
con errata corrige e nuovi inserimenti
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
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.
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. 2610E
EUR 60,00
10% off to AIDA, AICPM members
WINNER OF USFI REWARD "RENATO RUSSO"
as 2015 best book
Fiorenzo Longhi
AEROFILIA ITALIANA 1884-1920
Dai Pionieri dell'aviazione agli «Assi» della Grande Guerra
CATALOGO DEI TIMBRI DI REPARTO DELL'AVIAZIONE
Periodo pionieristico, Guerra italo-turca, Prima guerra mondiale
Dai Pionieri dell'aviazione agli «Assi» della Grande Guerra
CATALOGO DEI TIMBRI DI REPARTO DELL'AVIAZIONE
Periodo pionieristico, Guerra italo-turca, Prima guerra mondiale
240 pp. - 607 colour ill. - 80 plates - format cm 21x29,7 - high quality glossy paper - hardbound - printed 2015
series "Handies"
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian text
ISBN: 978-88-96381-19-9
AEROFILIA ITALIANA 1884-1920From the Pioneers of Aviation to the "Aces" of the Great War
CATALOGUE OF AIR FORCE POSTMARKS
Pioneering period, Italian-Turkish Conflict, First World War
The historical descriptive catalogue of Italian air force postmarks, with the foreword by Roberto Gentilli, aircraft historian.
In the centenary of Italy's entry into World War I, in 2015, a comprehensive study about all the known (at the moment) postmarks used by the different aviation units (1,423 postmarks listed, from forerunners to the end of World War I), with their rarity point evaluations, based on the frequency of each postmark, of its colour, and of the possible military postmark impressed on the item in question.
Within the Italian-Turkish Conflict, the leaflets in Arab language are listed, for the first time, with their translation into Italian, in addition to the messages dropped from airships to the Italian troops. They add an unreleased element to the history of aviation seen by an aerophilatelist and from the point of view of the history of military mail.
Much interest is given by the little known news about the presence of the Italian aviation units in Albania, Macedonia, Dalmatia, France, Cyrenaica and Tripolitania and of the allied aviation forces of France and Great Britain in Italy during World War I.
Each chapter is introduced by the history of aviation relevant to each period in question (forerunners, Italian-Turkish Conflict and World War I), from balloonists to airship crew members, to the aviators of the Italian Royal Army and of the Italian Royal Navy, and by the relocation of the units, within the historical period examined. That means a chronological history of the Italian military aviation and of the postmarks used from 1884 to 1920, from the pioneering period to the end of World War I (including the two following years for those units that were not disbanded immediately after the Armistice).
CONTENTS
Foreword by Roberto Gentilli
Author's note
How to use the catalogue
Valuations
THE PIONEERING PERIOD OF ITALIAN MILITARY AVIATION - 1884 - May 1915
History of Aviation
Catalogue of Postmarks
THE FIRST AIR CONFLICT IN THE WORLD: AVIATION IN THE ITALIAN-TURKISH CONFLICT - 1911-1913
History of Aviation
Catalogue of Postmarks
THE FIRST WORLD WAR - 1915-1918
History of Aviation
Catalogue of Postmarks
Bibliography
From the FOREWORD by Roberto Gentilli, aircraft historian
A current word in the academic field, interdisciplinarity means, according to the official definition, the net of relationships of complementarity, integration and interaction thanks to which different disciplines converge in common principles, tending to approach and unify the isolated parts and the fragmentary moments of the present specialized knowledge.
Fiorenzo Longhi, through his works, [...], has been able to lay a bridge of interdisciplinarity between philately and aeronautic historiography.
"Aerofilia" receives a series of fundamental points from military historiography: the deployment of divisions, news about the airplanes used [...] But, in turn, it offers much more, a series of documents that give confirmation of dates, places, people not by means of statistical summaries or reports, but through living, authentic documents, with dates and places certified by postmarks. [...]
Moreover, research in this volume is so accurate to go beyond the simple confirmation; it brings incontrovertible proof of presence, relocation, time, elements which had escaped aeronautic researchers' attention, thus creating problems and uncertainty, but also new fascinating perspectives.
Interdisciplinarity generated by different passions, but also by a common respect for accurate research and commitment for the preservation of historical memories, enriches us, in the hope that care given to every envelope, to every leaflet thrown from an airplane, to every newspaper sent via air mail, is diffused and of help in order to avoid the small tragedies that occur every time that young people throw their grandfather's old papers into a garbage bin.
But there is a last point that I wish to stress. In the Centenary of the Great War, commemorated even by Italy, a country unfocused, like just a few others, on its own history, the aeronautic historians who discover the world of "aerofilia" are brought back to the human aspect of the conflict.
It is not only a matter of airplanes, of kilos of bombs thrown, of identification numbers or of claiming of shooting down, the objects that its research tends to be restricted to, but of men. [...]
The value of research of "aerofilia", therefore, is not only the corroboration offered to the historical research, but the human dimension it enriches that of, and for which we thank Fiorenzo Longhi.
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From the PREFACE by Fiorenzo Longhi
Different from what, already long ago, has been fulfilled in other countries and in spite of the historical interest of the connected events, a systematic study of the special postmarks impressed on mail and on official documents of the air force units has never been undertaken in Italy.
[...]
The air force handstamps are of various kind, generally in gum and impressed in violet ink.
More rarely in other colours (blue, red, green) or black.
The postmarks used on mail are sometimes the same as those impressed on the usual exchange of documents within the unit.
Other postmarks, instead, lead us to believe that Aviation units had an autonomous form of censorship [...]
The air force postmarks were impressed on mail just to complete, in a rapid, easy and clear way, the indication of the sender, but this kind of completion could have been done also manually.
Not only: even official documents usually lack of the air force or commander postmarks.
It is therefore probable that precise rules had not been dictated, by the supreme authorities, military or of the State, regarding types, sizes, or text, leaving every commander free to choose, and, very likely, the use of special postmarks on mail has been much less frequent in some units than in others.
Adding to all these considerations the long time passed, the fact that only a minimal part of the correspondence is generally kept and that the interest by Italian collectors in this field has always been rather lacking, we can be almost certain that the possibility of the integral completing of the postmarks of all the air force units of the Italian Royal Army and of the Italian Royal Navy [...] has to be considered, if not impossible, highly uncertain.
As regards the historical events of the units of Navy, Airship crew members and Balloonists, I had to draw hardly from various sources, sometimes contrasting, and so I decided to privilege only those few official documents that I have had the luck to trace in private and public archives.
A current word in the academic field, interdisciplinarity means, according to the official definition, the net of relationships of complementarity, integration and interaction thanks to which different disciplines converge in common principles, tending to approach and unify the isolated parts and the fragmentary moments of the present specialized knowledge.
Fiorenzo Longhi, through his works, [...], has been able to lay a bridge of interdisciplinarity between philately and aeronautic historiography.
"Aerofilia" receives a series of fundamental points from military historiography: the deployment of divisions, news about the airplanes used [...] But, in turn, it offers much more, a series of documents that give confirmation of dates, places, people not by means of statistical summaries or reports, but through living, authentic documents, with dates and places certified by postmarks. [...]
Moreover, research in this volume is so accurate to go beyond the simple confirmation; it brings incontrovertible proof of presence, relocation, time, elements which had escaped aeronautic researchers' attention, thus creating problems and uncertainty, but also new fascinating perspectives.
Interdisciplinarity generated by different passions, but also by a common respect for accurate research and commitment for the preservation of historical memories, enriches us, in the hope that care given to every envelope, to every leaflet thrown from an airplane, to every newspaper sent via air mail, is diffused and of help in order to avoid the small tragedies that occur every time that young people throw their grandfather's old papers into a garbage bin.
But there is a last point that I wish to stress. In the Centenary of the Great War, commemorated even by Italy, a country unfocused, like just a few others, on its own history, the aeronautic historians who discover the world of "aerofilia" are brought back to the human aspect of the conflict.
It is not only a matter of airplanes, of kilos of bombs thrown, of identification numbers or of claiming of shooting down, the objects that its research tends to be restricted to, but of men. [...]
The value of research of "aerofilia", therefore, is not only the corroboration offered to the historical research, but the human dimension it enriches that of, and for which we thank Fiorenzo Longhi.
******************************
From the PREFACE by Fiorenzo Longhi
Different from what, already long ago, has been fulfilled in other countries and in spite of the historical interest of the connected events, a systematic study of the special postmarks impressed on mail and on official documents of the air force units has never been undertaken in Italy.
[...]
The air force handstamps are of various kind, generally in gum and impressed in violet ink.
More rarely in other colours (blue, red, green) or black.
The postmarks used on mail are sometimes the same as those impressed on the usual exchange of documents within the unit.
Other postmarks, instead, lead us to believe that Aviation units had an autonomous form of censorship [...]
The air force postmarks were impressed on mail just to complete, in a rapid, easy and clear way, the indication of the sender, but this kind of completion could have been done also manually.
Not only: even official documents usually lack of the air force or commander postmarks.
It is therefore probable that precise rules had not been dictated, by the supreme authorities, military or of the State, regarding types, sizes, or text, leaving every commander free to choose, and, very likely, the use of special postmarks on mail has been much less frequent in some units than in others.
Adding to all these considerations the long time passed, the fact that only a minimal part of the correspondence is generally kept and that the interest by Italian collectors in this field has always been rather lacking, we can be almost certain that the possibility of the integral completing of the postmarks of all the air force units of the Italian Royal Army and of the Italian Royal Navy [...] has to be considered, if not impossible, highly uncertain.
As regards the historical events of the units of Navy, Airship crew members and Balloonists, I had to draw hardly from various sources, sometimes contrasting, and so I decided to privilege only those few official documents that I have had the luck to trace in private and public archives.
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.
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.
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