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Cod. 61E
EUR 110,00


SASSONE 2025
FRANCOBOLLI
ANTICHI STATI ITALIANI - REGNO D'ITALIA
1850-1900

620 pp. - colour ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - 84th ed. 2024
Italian text

SASSONE 2025 - POSTAGE STAMPS
ITALIAN STATES - KINGDOM OF ITALY 1850-1900

The prestigious catalogue of classic Italian postage stamps to 1900.

Catalogue and valuations of: Lombardy Venetia Kingdom - Duchy of Modena - Kingdom of the two Sicilies (Naples) - Duchy of Parma - Papal State - Provisional Government of Romagne - Kingdom of Sardinia - Kingdom of the two Sicilies (Sicily) - Grand Duchy of Tuscany - Kingdom of Italy - San Marino - Post offices abroad and Colonies (Levant, La Canea, Eritrea) - Postal Stationery (Italy, S.Marino, Eritrea).
DA FARE
FATTO 12-9-23
FATTO 19-8-23
FATTO 20-8-22
FATTO 14-8-2021
FATTO 8-8-2020
FATTO 10-8-2019
FATTO 11-8-2018
FATTO 19-8-2017
FATTO 28-8-2016
FATTO 23-8-2015
FATTO 5-8-2014
FATTO 31-7-2013
FATTO 3-8-2012
FATTO 5-08-2011
FATTO 6-08-2010
FATTO 16-07-2008
FATTO 8-08-2007
FATTO 10-09-2006
Cod. 59E
EUR 37,00


CATALOGO UNIFICATO SUPER 2025
ITALIA e ANTICHI STATI
SAN MARINO - VATICANO - SMOM

816 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 51st ed. 2024
Italian text

UNIFICATO CATALOGUE SUPER 2025
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 July 2024.

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. 2880ET
EUR 15,00


Antonello Cerruti - Michele Martini
ORIGINALI E FALSI
English translation of Tom Kruse
Amburgo - Baden - Baviera - Bergedorf - Brema - Brunswick - Hannover - Mecklenburg - Oldenburg - Prussia - Sassonia - Schleswig-Holstein

37 pp. - separate sheets in transparent hot-sealed bag - printed 2024
English translation

To accompany the original work in Italian, translation into English of the descriptive text and of the index.

Volume dedicated to the study of the originals and forgeries of the first stamps of the German Ancient States.

In the volume in Italian, hundreds of images and enlargements highlight the characteristics, stamp by stamp, in order to identify the originals and distinguish the forgeries.
Cod. 990E
EUR 35,00


SAKURA 2025
CATALOGUE OF JAPANESE STAMPS

374 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2024
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. 2881E
EUR 95,00


Kurt Baumgartner
LA POSTA IN TICINO
Evoluzione storica dal XVI secolo ad oggi

768 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - ed. 2024
Italian text

POSTAL SERVICE IN TICINO
Historical evolution from the 16th century to today

The work covers all the areas of postal history in which the author has been interested: from the development of communication routes, to the evolution of transport, the genesis, expansion and consolidation of the postal service in relation to the historical contexts of the period, the introduction and history of the postal cancellation, ...

Talking about postal history does not mean limiting oneself to describing the evolution of the service and administrations. It means analyzing the techniques and objects of communication - such as letters, newspapers, conventions between States, regulations and service prescriptions, seals and postmarks, postage stamps - in their social and artistic implications.

The most important locations in Ticino, in which there was or still is a post office, which are located on the main communication routes, are described and documented. For the Municipalities described there are brief historical details, the reproduction of the main postmarks in use in the post office with the dates of use, various correspondence between the Municipality and the Post Office Management and several period images, many important pieces of information, also thanks to the description and reproduction of many unpublished original documents.

Ticino, located between the Swiss Alps and the Lombardy Plain, is a small territory, but already from the 16th century postal traffic through the Alps was of fundamental importance for the transmission of letters and messages between the courts and the powers of Europe, without forgetting the universities, the convents, the Papal State and subsequently the traders and merchants.

The San Gottardo Pass, with that of the Sempione, the Spluga, the Giulia, the San Bernardino, the Gran San Bernardo, has become increasingly important over the last few centuries and so also the Canton of Ticino has had to adapt its roads and postal services for correspondence, for the transport of people and goods to the new needs.

CONTENTS

Prefazione
Introduzione
Abbreviazioni
Fonti

* Capitolo I: Cronologia - Storia del Cantone Ticino - Storia Postale
* Capitolo II: Amministrazione postale - Diligenze
* Capitolo II: Le vie postali - I corrieri - I someggiatori
* Capitolo IV: Convenzioni postali - Regno Sardo - Stati esteri - Cantone Grigioni
* Capitolo V: Sigilli - Annulli - Timbri - Regolamenti - Monete - Pesi
* Capitolo VI: Altre tipologie di servizi postali
* Capitolo VII: Miscellanea
* Capitolo VIII: Località

L'autore
Pubblicazioni
Libri ed articoli di terzi con scritti e documenti di Kurt
Articoli in cataloghi di esposizioni filateliche
Articoli in riviste filateliche, riviste regionali e giornali
Bibliografia
Cod. 2894E
EUR 60,00


Thomas Mathà
AIEP
A WORLD OF PHILATELIC FAKES AND FORGERIES

140 pp. - - colour ill. - hardbound - ed. 2024
English text

The book, published in connection with the 70th anniversary of the International Association of Philatelic Experts, captures the essence of AIEP's journey through a historical collection of fakes and forgeries from all over the world, primarily assembled by the former president Enzo Diena.

The collection allows us to recognize the diversity and also the critical nature of philatelic forgeries, thus the importance of experts in distinguishing the genuine from the fake.

Forgeries are all illustrated, some of them enlarged.

CONTENTS

Foreword
Prologue

* A brief survey about fakes and forgeries in philately
* The «Rome» collection of philatelic fakes and forgeries
* The 70th anniversary of the AIEP
* The AIEP quality label
* The current members of the AIEP and their areas of specialization
* Statutes of the AIEP
Cod. 2889E
EUR 40,00


Franco Filanci - Domenico Tagliente
CLASSICI D'ITALIA vol.1
Catalogo di Posta e Francobolli
CLASSICS OF ITALY vol.1 - Postal Philatelic Catalogue

256 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2024
Italian and English text

Catalogue of Italian postage stamps and postal history from pre-unity states to the Republic (1967-1968) based on history, starting with that of the Post, which includes every type of postal value with the indication of what it actually is.

Airmail stamps, express stamps, pneumatic post stamps, postage due stamps, postcards and postal cards, mechanical franking are included chronologically together with ordinary, commemorative, celebratory and advertising postage stamps.
Cod. 2890E
EUR 55,00


Ketty Borgogno
CASTELLI D'ITALIA
Viaggio tra i colori e le particolarità della serie
Edizione aggiornata 2025

172 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2024
Italian text

CASTLES OF ITALY
A JOURNEY THROUGH COLOURS AND PECULIARITIES OF THE SERIES

New edition that resumes and updates the publication printed in 2019.

An unprecedented in philately that leads us to discover all the colours and the aspects of the ordinary issue of the Castles of Italy, analyzed in a deepened and detailed way, in the attempt to find an issue from the labyrinth of the countless reprints.
The result of a long study that offers us a guideline for cataloguing and reveals us all the good that is present in this series, that has been the most used and long lasting Italian ordinary issue.

A journey during which collectors will discover how to analyze the Castles in a simple and efficacious way, in order to be able to obtain a series completely new.

The book is divided into two parts, the first one entitled "The collection described", with all the specifications of colours, and the second one "Laboratory", with differences and comparisons.

CONTENTS

INTRODUZIONE
* Le ordinarie d'Italia ed il loro periodo d'uso
* La serie Castelli
* Come nasce questa passione - Lo spunto e lo studio

PARTE I - LA COLLEZIONE DESCRITTA
* Specifiche
* La stabilità del colore, una problematica secolare
* I colori naturali della serie e le loro codifiche
* Le ristampe del 1994
* Alcune affrancature interessanti
* Analogie di colore accidentali
* Infiltrazioni di colore accidentali
* Stampa su carta colorata
* I colori passati sul retro
* I colori "luminescenti"
* I colori fluorescenti sul retro dei castelli
* Un castello che cambia colore
* I colori dei castelli in bobina
* I colori evanescenti
* I colori mancanti o in eccesso
* I colori dubbi ed i trucchi di scolorimento

PARTE II - LABORATORIO
* Le differenze dei metodi di stampa
* Comparazioni tra vero e artefatto
* Le mille fluorescenze dei castelli
* La differenza tra falla di stampa e mancata erogazione del colore
* Il colore fuori registro o spostamento di colore
* Il cosiddetto "taglio chirurgico"
* I falsi per frodare le poste

Conclusioni

Glossario
Bibliografia
Codifiche
Cod. 2888E
EUR 80,00


Lorenzo Carra
ITALIA E IBERIA
La posta fra gli stati delle due penisole 1814-1876
ITALY AND IBERIA - The mail between the States of the two Peninsulas 1814-1876

320 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2024
Italian and English text

The study is focused on the postal relations of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, including Iberian territories, with the Old Italian states.
It is based on the analyses of hundreds of letters (about 600), incoming and outgoing, to show how the postal service worked at that time, explaining routes and the rates under the several postal conventions in force, during the period from 1814 to 1875, the date when Italy, Spain and Portugal became members of the General Postal Union.

It includes a very useful list of more than 100 conventions analysed, and a detailed index of names and places, and of postmarks.
Cod. 57E
EUR 100,00
Special Price
EUR 80,00


SASSONE 2025
CATALOGO COMPLETO DEI FRANCOBOLLI
D'ITALIA E PAESI ITALIANI
SPECIALIZZATO vol.1 + vol.2

1st + 2nd VOLUME - 2 vols. - 1216+652 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - 84th ed. 2024

SASSONE 2025 - COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF POSTAGE STAMPS OF ITALY AND ITALIAN TERRITORIES - SPECIALIZED vol.1 + vol.2

Catalogue in two volumes: the first one is devoted to the postage stamps of Italy and the Italian territories with no more issues; the second one deals with collections which can be updated with new issues, that is the Italian Republic, San Marino, Vatican.

Volume 1: Italian States - Kingdom of Vittorio Emanuele II - Kingdom of Italy - Italian Social Republic - Regency - Trieste AMG-VG - Trieste AMG-FTT - Trieste B - Local issues - Independent issues - C.L.N. issues - Polish Corp - World War 1 (Foreign Occupations of Italian territories + Liberated territories) - World War 2 (Italian Occupations + Foreign Occupations of Italian territories) - Post Offices abroad - Colonies - Foreign Occupations of the Colonies.

Volume 2: Italian Republic
Updates with new issues include the stamps issued up to July 2024.

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