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Gianni Carraro - Luigi Sirotti
IL 100 LIRE DELLA DEMOCRATICA
Il francobollo e la Storia Postale

600 pp. - 911 colour ill. - hard bound with colour cover - printed 2003
+ 14 pp. separated reference catalogue with Italian text

THE "100 LIRE" POSTAGE STAMP OF THE "DEMOCRATIC" ISSUE

The most exhaustive and usefull monograph about one of the very appreciated and collected postage stamps of the Republic of Italy (issued from 1946 to 1952).

CONTENTS

IL FRANCOBOLLO
* Presentazione
* Chiave del catalogo
* Capitolo I: I decreti ufficiali - La stampa in calcografia - La macchina usata per la stampa - Le caratteristiche delle due lastre - L'usura delle lastre - Le dentellature - Le soprastampe per la Zona A della Venezia Giulia e per il Territorio Libero di Trieste
* Capitolo II: Le caratteristiche della carta - La filigrana ruota alata I tipo e ruota alata II tipo - La gommatura - La dentellatura
* Capitolo III: La classificazione specializzata
* Capitolo IV: Catalogazione illustrata degli esemplari singoli e in blocchi delle varie tirature, dentellature e varietà conosciute della I lastra ruota alata II tipo
* Capitolo V: Catalogazione illustrata degli esemplari singoli e in blocchi delle varie tirature, dentellature e varietà conosciute della II lastra ruota alata II tipo
* Capitolo VI: catalogazione illustrata degli esemplari singoli e in blocchi della I e della II lastra con le varietà conosciute della ruota alata I tipo
* Capitolo VII: Catalogazione illustrata degli esemplari singoli e in blocchi delle varie tirature, dentellature e varietà conosciute della I e II lastra ruota alata II tipo dei valori soprastampati per la Venezia Giulia e per il Territorio Libero di Trieste

LA STORIA POSTALE
* Capitolo VIII: Elenco dei Paesi del mondo e relativa denominazione nel periodo 1946-1952 - I nuovi confini territoriali dell'Italia - Le tariffe postali per l'interno, via di superficie e via aerea - Gli oggetti postali per l'interno viaggiati per le vie di superficie - Gli oggetti postali per l'interno viaggiati per via aerea - Le tariffe per la Repubblica di San Marino e per la Città del Vaticano
* Capitolo IX: Gli avvenimenti politici e militari nella Venezia Giulia - Gli oggetti postali scambiati per la Venezia Giulia.
* Capitolo X: I servizi postali per l'estero - Le date di riattivazione del servizio con i vari Paesi - Gli avvenimenti politici e istituzionali che condizionarono il servizio postale con i Paesi esteri - L'evoluzione territoriale dei vari Stati esteri nel periodo 1946-1952 - Le tariffe per l'estero via di superficie - Gli scali aerei internazionali - La soprattassa aerea per i Paesi europei - La soprattassa aerea per i Paesi extra-europei - Gli oggetti postali per i vari Paesi esteri viaggiati per le vie di superficie - Gli oggetti postali per i vari Paesi esteri viaggiati per via aerea
* Capitolo XI: Le affrancature miste
* Capitolo XII: I "Perfin"
* Capitolo XIII: Le tassazioni
* Capitolo XIV: I falsi di Buenos Aires: catalogazione, usi postali e affrancature
Cod. 2583E
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SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Anno XVI - n.31 - giugno 2015

64 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2015
Italian text

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year XVI - n.31 - June 2015

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

CONTENTS

* Editoriale
* Alfred Bonnici, Posta e Sanità marittima nei collegamenti fra Sicilia e Malta da Ferdinando II di Borbone alla Dittatura garibaldina (1859-1860)
* Alberto Barcella, Il sistema di comunicazione tra i Comitati insurrezionali siciliani nel maggio del 1860
* Giuseppe Natoli Rivas, Inediti aspetti del periodo di emergenza postale in Sicilia da maggio 1860
* Achille Ragazzoni, La Spedizione garibaldina in Sicilia nella filatelia e nella marcofilia siciliana (Parte terza)
* Giulio Santoro, Sulla incursione di un francobollo della Repubblica Sociale Italiana nella affrancatura di una corrispondenza del 1945 in Sicilia. Usi tardivi (borderline e off-limits) di valori della RSI nel territorio nazionale
* Ricordo di Gaetano Palmigiano
* Quesiti e segnalazioni
* Le manifestazioni
Cod. 2530E
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CURSORES
Anno VIII - n.18 - maggio 2015
Rivista di Storia Postale
(nuova serie)

128 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2015
Italian text

CURSORES
year VIII - n.18 - May 2015
Postal History Magazine
(new series)

Magazine of the Italian Association for Postal History - Editor Angelo Simontacchi

CONTENTS

* Kurt Baumgartner, La "Compagnia Cacciatori Svizzeri" alle battaglie del Risorgimento veneziano 1848-1849
* Arnim Knapp, Trasporto di posta in mongolfiera verso la Sassonia, da Parigi assediata durante la guerra franco-tedesca 1870-1871. Le lettere presentate sono le prime lettere al mondo spedite come posta aerea in Sassonia
* Luca Eugenio Baratta, Francesco Percivalle: il falsario ... dei due mondi
* Oliviero Emoroso, I francobolli ungheresi sovrastampati "Fiume"
* Marco Occhipinti, La posta sotterranea delle Grotte di Postumia
* Odenweller, La posta dei prigionieri di guerra tra Nuova Zelanda e Italia durante la seconda guerra mondiale
* Federico Borromeo, John Cassell e le origini della letteratura filatelica
* Luigi Sirotti, Le caselle postali di Lisbona 1940-1945
* Massimo A.Mattioli, La "Grande Guerra" attraverso i documenti postali spediti dal fronte e dalle retrovie
* Adriano Cattani, L'introduzione dei bolli postali nella Repubblica di Venezia
* Paolo Zavattoni, Storia postale - i perché di un mondo affascinante
Cod. 2574E
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Costantino Caruso
FRANCESCO PAOLO MICHETTI:
IL RITRATTO DI UN RE E LA SUA LUNGA STORIA

97 pp. - colour ill. - photographic paper - separate sheets in card case with elastic band - format cm 26x34 - printed 2015
Italian text

FRANCESCO PAOLO MICHETTI:
THE PORTRAIT OF A KING AND HIS LONG HISTORY

The expert and passionate research by a collector gives birth to this text, that gathers preparatory studies, sketches, essays and print peculiarities of the different postage stamps created by a great Abruzzese artist provided to philately.
Almost one hundred pages, never ordinary or repetitive, illustrate a collection that is unique for completeness and documentation.
Cod. 2562E
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SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Anno XV - n.30 - dicembre 2014 / gennaio 2015

64 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2015
Italian text

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year XV - n.30 - December 2014 / January 2015

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

CONTENTS

* Editoriale
* Vittorio Morani e Antonio Ferrario, Tariffe inconsuete durante la trasformazione del Granducato di Toscana in provincia del Regno d'Italia
* Carlo Vicario, Cassette Postali sulle Ferrovie
* Achille Ragazzoni, La spedizione garibaldina in Sicilia nella filatelia e nella marcofilia siciliana (Parte seconda)
* Franco Projetto, Storia postale di Nicosia, dal 1786 al 1946 (Parte seconda)
* Franco Napoli, L'ultimo viaggio con la Sicilia negli occhi, nella mente e nel cuore (Parte seconda)
* Vincenzo Fardella de Quernfort, I servizi postali durante la Rivoluzione Siciliana del 1848-1849
* Voci della Memoria
* Quesiti e segnalazioni
* Le manifestazioni
Cod. 1135E
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Paolo Vollmeier
THE POSTAL HISTORY OF SICILY FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE INTRODUCTION OF THE POSTAGE STAMP

700 pp. - 64 colour tables - b/w ill. - hardbound with colour cover - printed 1998
POINT VALUATIONS
In English

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

The text comes from the notes and studies by Lorenzo Previteri (the first to make a serious study of the postal history of Sicily in the prephilatelic period), and the book is dedicated to him. Paolo Vollmeier reorganised the material, then translated from Italian into English by Roy A. Dehn.
The study is devoted to the history of the Post under the Bourbons, up until the introduction of postage stamps on 1 January 1859.

This history can be divided into four periods.
1. up to 1535: first regulation for the postal service.
2. from 1535 to May 1786: running of the service contracted out to private persons.
3. from June 1786 to 31 March 1820: in 1786 the postal service was taken back by the state and the first handstamps were introduced in Palermo and Messina.
4. from 1 April 1820 to 31 December 1858: on 1 April 1820 the new postal regulation came into force and 116 post offices were issued with handstamps. Of particular interest are the periods of popular rising against the king in 1820 and 1848/49, which left their mark on the postal service.

Catalogue of cancellations and their valuation in points.

CONTENTS

* The political background
* The letters of the Viceroys in Sicily
* Chronology of the Maestri di Posta
* The regulations
* The postal routes
* The introduction of departure handstamps in the Palermo and Messia offices
* The Postal Office
* The control marks used by the Postal Administration
* Taxation marks (Group 8)
* The 'P' mark (Group 7)
* ROCM (Royal Office of Corriere Maggiore)
* The staffette
* The royal decree of 10 November 1819
* The risings of 1820 in Sicily
* The postal service during the 1820-21 Revolution
* Free-frankking
* Post office countersignatures for free-franking
* Post office countersignatures for free-franking
* The countersign stamps prepared by the post for use by governmental offices
* Countersignatures for freefranking and administration marks
* Real Servizio (Royal Service)
* Franca - postage prepaid
* Insured letters
* Letters wrongly rated - mal tassate
* Misdirected letters
* Letters where addressee had moved house
* Undelivered letters - lettere non distribuite
* Two-route letters - doppia corsa
* The cross routes
* The corriers for the lottery
* Article 14 of the postal regulation of 10 November 1819
* Letterbox - Buca
* The date-stamps of Palermo used on arrival from 1787 to 1819
* The date-stamps of Palermo from 1817 to 1858
* The date-stamps of Messina
* Postage on credit - Lettere a credito
* Communal offices - Cancellerie Comunali
* The Sicilian Revolution of 1848-49
* The postal service during the 1848-1849 Revolution
* The postal handstamps and the trinacria symbols used during the 1848-1849 Revolution
* Sea-Mail - Via di Mare
* The Butera courier
* Health
* The forwarding agent
* The telegraph service
* Handwritten place-names
* British troops in Sicily
* Worn-out or damaged handstamps
* Postal tariffs and rates levied
* The inks used in the offices to stamp letters
* Forged handstamps

* Annex
* Documents
* Catalogue
* Bibliography
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edited by Franco Filanci
CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
OFFERTA 2 LIBRI INSIEME
VOLUME 1 + VOLUME 2

144 + 240 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2013 + 2014
Italian text

2 BOOKS OFFER

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.1 - THE ITALIAN KINGDOM POST 1861-1889 +
VOL.2 - A BELLE ÉPOQUE POST 1889-1921

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.
Cod. 3077E
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Pier Filippo Lupinacci
ATTIVITÀ IN MAR NERO E LAGO LADOGA

revised and updated by Giuliano Manzari e Massimo Paolucci
212 pp. - b/w ill. and diagrams - hardbound with cover - printed 2003 (4th edition)
Italian text
Published by the Italian Navy General Staff, History Archives - Series: The Italian Navy in WWII

ACTIVITY IN THE BLACK SEA AND IN LAKE LADOGA

The activity of the flotilla of "pocket submarines" and of the M.A.S. squadrons, torpedo speedboats and explosive skiffs that operated in the Black Sea and in Lake Ladoga. Their fast transport by road or railroad up to Konstanz and then to Crimea. The success obtained against the Soviet surface vehicles and submarines.
Cod. 3073E
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Ubaldini Ubaldino Mori
I SOMMERGIBILI NEGLI OCEANI

390 pp. - ill. and 33 diagrams in b/w - revised by Aldo Cocchia - hardbound woth cover - reprint 2002 of the 3rd ed. 1976
Italian text
Published by the Italian Navy General Staff, History Archives - Series: The Italian Navy in WWII

SUBMARINES IN THE OCEANS

The events of the 32 oceanic vessels of Betasom, been commissioned between 1925 and 1943, the Italian naval base in Bordeaux and the foundering of a good 569,000 gross tonnage of enemy mercantile craft, in the documents of the Italian Navy Archives and in those of the British and American History Archives.
Cod. 3062E
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Ersilia Graziani
TRA MEMORIA E FUTURO
IL CENTENARIO DELL'UFFICIO STORICO
DELLA MARINA MILITARE

200 pp. - richly illustrated with numerous b/w and colour photos - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2013
Italian text
Published by the Italian Navy General Staff, History Archives

ISBN: 978 8898 485888
BETWEEN MEMORY AND FUTURE
THE CENTENARY OF THE ITALIAN NAVY GENERAL STAFF

The volume represents the most significant way to celebrate the centenary of the Italian Navy General Staff, since it outlines its identity by means a history excursus of its activities: the rich photographic patrimony, the continuous editorial production, the participation and the organization of exhibitions and conventions; everything is reconstructed on the basis of the wide documentary sources produced by the General Staff itself over its existence.
Cod. 3060E
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Renato Battista La Racine - Franco Prosperini
LA MARINA MILITARE 1861-1991
COMPENDIO DI 130 ANNI DI VITA

296 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2007
Italian and English text
Published by the Italian Navy General Staff, History Archives

ITALIAN NAVY 1861-1991
COMPENDIUM OF 130 YEARS OF LIFE

This volume offers a balanced context of the history of the Italian Navy in a limited number of pages, in order to give some synthetic and exhaustive information of the history events that have characterized its existence, for 130 years, from its birth to Gulf War. The book is not restricted to illustrate the Italian Navy policy, its naval operations and the technical features of its ships, instead it also faces topics of social and political character.
Another aspect concerns the drawing up of the work in English too, initiative through which the Italian Navy General Staff appears again on the international scene, taking Italian history outside its national borders.
Cod. 3037E
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Mario Montanari
SME - LE OPERAZIONI IN AFRICA SETTENTRIONALE
VOL. IV - ENFIDAVILLE
(novembre 1942 - maggio 1943)

820 pp. - 90 b/w sketches and 37 b/w plates - hardbound - reprint 2005 of the 1st ed. 1993
Italian text
Published by the Italian Army General Staff, History Archives

THE OPEARTIONS IN NORTH AFRICA
VOL. IV - ENFIDAVILLE
(November 1942-May 1943)

With this volume, that follows the three previously published about "Sidi El Barrani", "Tobruk" and "El Alamein", the History Bureau has finished the re-elaborated version of the eight monographs, published immediately after war, relevant to the operations led by the Italian Army in North Africa from June 1940 to May 1943. Like the previous ones, also this work is not restricted to a technical and operative analysis of the operations - in this case related to the Tunisian theatre - but it extends the investigation field to the political-military aspects of both parts.
Cod. 3032E
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Luigi Emilio Longo
SME - IMMAGINI DELLA SECONDA GUERRA MONDIALE
LA CAMPAGNA DI TUNISIA
(1942-1943)

228 pp. - over 300 b/w photos - hardbound with cover - printed 2007
Italian text
Published by the Italian Army General Staff, History Archives

IMAGES OF WORLD WAR II
THE CAMPAIGN OF TUNISIA
(1942-1943)

The volume includes over 300 pictures about the Campaign battled in Tunisia by the Italian Army between November 1942 and May 1943, divided into two main subjects; the operative and the logistic ones. The collection of the iconographic material is introduced by a historical synthesis of the main events occurred on the Tunisian Front, considered as the outpost of Europe, whose defence represented a strategic crux to avoid the air and sea superiority of the Allies.
Cod. 3007E
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Flavio Russo
SME - LA DIFESA COSTIERA DELLO STATO
DEI REALI PRESIDI DI TOSCANA
DAL XVI AL XIX SECOLO

298 pp. - 188 colour and b/w photos and drawings - hardbound with colour cover - published 2002
Italian text
Published by the Italian Army General Staff, History Archives

THE COAST DEFENCE OF THE STATE OF THE ROYAL PROTECTIONS OF TUSCANY FROM XVI TO XIX CENTURY

The strategic need to protect the routes between the southern possessions, Kingdom of Naples and Kingdom of Sicily, and the coasts of Genoa and of the North, as much as the harbours to the Kingdom of Sardinia, led Spain to curve out a sort of enclave geographically corresponding to the promontory of Argentario. The military strategy was the one of the so called Presidios, already tested almost half a century before in North Africa, and consisting of the imposition of strongholds and garrisons in the territory to be controlled.
Cod. 2537E
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Vitoronzo Pastore
I CARABINIERI TRA LA GENTE
bicentenario 1814-2014
nuovi contributi

664 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2014
Italian text

CARABINIERI AMONG PEOPLE
bicentenary 1814-2014
new contributions

with the contribution by Cap. Michele Miulli

International Award of Art and Culture "Salvo D'Acquisto" 2014
Cultural Association "Italia in Arte"
Brindisi - Lecce 28 June 2014

The author, on the occasion of the Bicentenary of Carabinieri Corps (1814-2014), has published a volume narrating its history by means of documents and papers of archival interest: around 220 illustrations of period postcards of the Corps, over 70 unreleased iconographies of front correspondence and of prisoners of World War I and II.

These images document the birth of the Corps and its path in the history of Italy, the wars of Independence, the Expedition of the Thousand, the Taking of Rome, the birth of Legions, Carabinieri on the territories (Crimea, Eritrea, Somalia, Crete, Libya, Albania, Aegean Islands, Ethiopia, Ogaden, Horn of Africa), WW I and II; here included are the iconographies and the unreleased statements that characterize the history of military, whose essential part is constituted by the correspondence from Nazi-Fascist and Allied prison camps. Moreover there are numerous protagonist heroes, from Salvo D'Acquisto to the martyrs of Fiesole and of the Fosse Ardeatine to partisan carabinieri in Cephalonia and Corfu. Last but not least is the Corps in the Navy, in the Air Force and on the territory, up to the present days.
Cod. 2533E
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SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Anno XV - n.29 - giugno 2014

48 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2014
Italian text

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year XV - n.29 - June 2014

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

Including Supplement "Sintesi storica della filatelia siciliana dal secondo dopoguerra ad oggi" Eighth part - 2003-2009 edited by Vincenzo Fardella de Quernfort.

CONTENTS

* Editoriale
* Vincenzo Fardella de Quernfort, Corrispondenza "Via Mare" in Sicilia prima e durante la Dittatura garibaldina e la Luogotenenza sardo-italiana
* Franco Projetto, Storia Postale di Nicosia, dal 1786 al 1946 (Parte prima)
* Achille Ragazzini, La spedizione garibaldina in Sicilia del 1860
* Antonio Puca e Alberto Stracuzzi, SICILIA: il doppio cerchio grande
* Franco Napoli, L'ultimo viaggio con la Sicilia negli occhi, nella mente e nel cuore (Parte prima)
* Giuseppe Ardizzone Gullo, La posta a Monforte San Giorgio
* Giulio Santoro, Le rispedizioni di ufficio in Sicilia nel periodo di transizione con affrancature delle emissioni del Regno e dell'Amgot
* Gabriele Camelia, Foglietto filatelico "FERRARI"
Cod. 1624E
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AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE
vol.2

588 pp. - b/w ill. - hardbound - 6th ed. 2003
VALUATIONS IN US$
English text

A PRICED CATALOGUE AND REFERENCE LISTING OF THE AIRPOSTS OF THE WORLD

Volume 2, Sixth Edition. This catalogue contains the following aerophilatelic specialties:
FFUS (First Flight of U.S. Airlines since deregulation in 1978)
Glider Mail
First Jet Flights
Published by the American Air Mail Society, USA.
Cod. 2518E
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CURSORES
Anno VII - n.17 - marzo 2014
Rivista di Storia Postale
(nuova serie)

144 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2014
Italian text

CURSORES
year VII - n.17 - March 2014
Postal History Magazine
(new series)

Magazine of the Italian Association for Postal History - Editor Angelo Simontacchi

CONTENTS

* Franco Faccio, Italia - Austria gli accordi provvisori settembre 1859-maggio 1862 - Seconda parte: I rapporti con i Governi Provvisori
* Federico Borromeo, Rapporti postali fra le Indie Occidentali e l'Italia nel XIX secolo
* Giampaolo Guzzi, Dalle buste Mulready a quelle illustrate a mano
* Costantino Gironi, Posta Aerea italiana - Il biennio che precede il secondo conflitto mondiale: 1938-1940
* Friedrich Meyer, Lettere dagli USA all'Italia via Brema - Un percorso inconsueto - Letters from USA to Italy via Bremen, Briefe aus USA über Bremen nach Italien - eine ungewöhnliche Route
* Claudio Ernesto Manzati e Aniello Veneri, Le relazioni postali internazionali dell'Italia nel secondo dopoguerra, ovvero: il 100 Lire nel mondo
* Alessandro Papanti, Corrispondenza estera per la Toscana con la mediazione sarda 1818-1851
* Arnim Knapp, Trasporto di posta in mongolfiera verso la Sassonia, da Parigi assediata durante la guerra franco-tedesca 1870-1871. Le lettere presentate sono le prime lettere al mondo spedite come posta aerea in Sassonia, Briefpost Beförderung aus dem eingeschlossenen Paris während des Deutsch-französischen Krieg 1870 bis 1871 mit der Ballon-Post nach Sachsen. Die gezeigten Briefe sind die ersten Luftpostbriefe der Welt nach Sachsen
* Angelo Teruzzi, Lettere dagli Antichi Stati Tedeschi agli Antichi Stati Italiani
* Vaz Pereira, 100 anni dalla I Guerra Mondiale 1914-2014 la Colonia portoghese del Mozambico, 100 Years of the WWI 1914-2014 the Portuguese Colony of Mozambique
Cod. 2512E
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SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Anno XIV - n.28 - dicembre 2013

56 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2013
Italian text

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year XIV - n.28 - December 2013

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

CONTENTS

* Editoriale
* Vincenzo Fardella de Quernfort, Corrispondenza "Via Mare" in Sicilia prima e durante la Dittatura garibaldina e la Luogotenenza sardo-italiana
* Vincenzo Caruso e Giulio Santoro, La città di Messina nella storia dell'aeronautica nazionale
* Vincenzo Fardella de Quernfort, 1212: la "Bolla d'oro di Sicilia" di Federico di Svevia e il servizio postale del regno federiciano
* Maurizio De Simone, Arte, cultura e sport nella filatelia virtuale
* In memoria di Nino Aquila
* Quesiti e Segnalazioni
* Manifestazioni
* Notiziario dei circoli
* Indice delle annate 2000-2013
Cod. 2482E
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D.N. Jatia
FROM THE DIARY OF
STEPHEN SMITH

68 pp. - b/w ill. - claret cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and cover - printed 1980 (jackets slightly damaged)
English text

A publication of the Philatelic Congress of India

In the world of philately Stephen Smith is widely known for his numerous pioneering experiments with rocket mail. He made at least 270 experiments with rocket mail firings.
This volume contains full descriptive accounts, reproduced from Stephen Smith's own hand-written diary, of a number of selected experiments, enriched with photos of some flight covers. In the middle thirties he conducted 69 experiments of which he kept meticulous notes. He also registered, in identical tabular forms, detail of all the 69 firings, together with vivid sketches of many of these incidents which he himself drew, published in this volume for the first time.
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