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Cod. 2683E
EUR 50,00


Francesco Dal Negro
LA POSTA NELLA PROVINCIA DI BERGAMO
dall'amministrazione Lombardo-Veneta a quella Sardo-Italiana
1850-1866

208 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2017
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian text

POST IN THE PROVINCE OF BERGAMO
from the Lombardy - Venetia administration to the Sardinian - Italian one
1850-1866

Completely colour illustrated with the reproduction of letters and postmarks, the work is composed of two parts.
In the first one a description is given of the geographic, political and economic situation of the province of Bergamo in the years over 1859, the year of the annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia; in this context the postal services on the territory, both in the Lombardy - Venetia period and in the Sardinian - Italian one, are examined too.
In the second part, that constitutes the catalogue with relevant valuations, all the 76 post offices that have operated in the province are listed alphabetically (except Bergamo, country seat, put at the beginning) and classified on the basis of the canceller postmarks used in the period examined.

The pertaining historical administrative period is taken into consideration In the introduction of the different postmarks, for the so called "pre-existing" offices, i.e. instituted in the Lombardy - Venetia period.
For the offices of new institution, created progressively from January 1860, the belonging to the Sardinian - Italian period is implied, therefore the relevant valuation is not conditioned by the peculiar historical period.

The canceller postmark, when unique, or the different and subsequent ones, when more than one, are described for every single office.
Some postmarks, in the period of their use, were impressed with inks in colour different from black, in shades that go from light blue to green.
The first and the last date known are reported for every postmark of every office.

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction
Foreword

PART ONE
1 - The Province of Bergamo in the middle of the 19th Century

2 - The postal services of the Province of Bergamo in the period of Lombardy - Venetia Kingdom until 7 June 1859
* Postage stamps and postal rates
* The agreement with the Kingdom of Sardinia
* Canceller postmarks
* The change of currency/The new postage stamps
* Post offices
* The post office in the town of Bergamo
* The postal relationships between Lombardy and Piedmont during the war period

3 - The postal services of the Province of Bergamo in the period of Provisional Government (8 June-10 November 1859)
* The annexation (provisional) of Lombardy to the Kingdom of Sardinia
* The tolerated use of Austrian postage stamps
* The introduction of Sardinian postage stamps
* The services of military on the territory of the province of Bergamo
* The French postage stamps cancelled in the civil post offices
* The postal relationships between Lombardy, Venetia and Austria, before and after the reinstatement of direct postal communications (15 September 1859)

4 - The postal services of the Province of Bergamo in the period of the Sardinian - Italian Kingdom (from 11 November 1859)
* Post offices
* The service of country mail
* The use of Sardinian postage stamps
* The supplying of Sardinian rubber-stamps
* The new weight of letters
* The new classification of post offices

PART TWO
1 - Postal - historical catalogue
* The criteria of classification
* The colour of postmarks
* Dates
* Scales of valuation of canceller postmarks for complete letters
* Registration postmarks
* Other accessory postmarks in use in the Austrian period

2 - The post offices in the province of Bergamo classified according to the canceller postmarks used (1850-1866)

Notes
Source of images
Bibliography
Cod. 2730E
EUR 50,00


Luca De Battisti - Luca Savini
SPUNTI DI STORIA MILANESE DAL XIV AL XIX SECOLO
LA POSTA DI MILANO 1849-1859
CATALOGO ANNULLAMENTI E BOLLI DELL'UFFICIO POSTALE DI MILANO

480 pp. - more than 900 colour ill. - format cm 21x29,7 - high quality glossy paper - hardbound - printed 2018
series "History through documents"
POINT RARITY SCALE
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

ISBN: 978-88-96381-27-4
SOME HINTS OF MILANESE HISTORY FROM THE XIV TO THE XIX CENTURY
THE POST IN MILAN 1849-1859
CATALOGUE OF CANCELLATIONS AND POSTMARKS IN MILAN POST OFFICE

with the cooperation of Gabriele Cafulli, Francesco Luraschi, Massimiliano Ferroni, Giuseppe Antonio Natoli

Description and cataloguing of the Lombardy Venetia postmarks in the Post Office of Milan, from which all correspondence transited, in the period from the introduction of postage stamps to the liberation of 1859. A great variety of uses, shapes, colours, a continuous experimentation of new technologies for the production of handstamps, inks, stamps, papers.

For each handstamp, the characteristics of the impression (size and type of characters); any changes made over time and, when significant for classification, the evolution of the impression in the period of use with different degrees of wearing; the intended use specifying if and when the handstamp was used; the total period of use and the period observed for each intended use; the degree of rarity for each type of use (stamp or cancellation).

Maximum space for "typological" cancellations and postmarks, i.e. those regularly used for a certain period of time or even occasionally in very specific situations. Only a nod is given for the errors in the dates (missing, inverted, etc.) Exhaustive and complete the classification of squared and small circle stamps based on different types in perfect chronological sequence.

Some sections complete the catalogue: examples of the various cases of error in the date composition, registered letters, more details.

Thanks also to the cooperation of enthusiasts and scholars of the most diverse disciplines, the work presents, in addition, Milan postal history from its origins to the end of Austrian domination, the postal reform, postal rates and services, the first and second issue postage stamps, insights, a historical overview.

CONTENTS

Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgements

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
* Lombardy Venetia Kingdom
* The city in the XIX century
* Political events
* Bibliography

HINTS OF POSTAL HISTORY IN MILAN BETWEEN XIV AND XIX CENTURIES
* Merchants towards new models
* Diplomacy and the beginnings of postal services
* The Post in Milan at the time of Simone Tasso
* The post by horse technique and state service
* From postal marks to cancels
* A short postmark chronicle
* Mail boxes in Milan
* The seat of the Post Office in Milan
* Crossed check for letters leaving from Milan Post Office
* Documents
* Bibliography

POSTAGE STAMPS
* The postal reform
* The first issue
* Forgeries in Milan
* The second issue
* Postage stamps for newspapers
* Postage-due labels
* Bibliography

RATES AND POSTAL SERVICES
* Postal rates
* Postal services in Milan
* 1859 in Milan
* Bibliography

CATALOGUE OF CANCELLATIONS AND POSTMARKS IN MILAN POST OFFICE FROM 1849 TO 1859
* Introduction
* Table of cancellations and postmarks
* Line cancellations on three lines (Roman capitals and small circle)
* Roman capitals on two lines
* Squared with year
* Dumb cancellations
* C4 - 4 circles with hours
* C1 - 1 circle simple
* CO - 1 circle with decoration
* CO59 - 1 circle with decoration and year
* Occasional nominal postmarks and cancellations
* Handwritten marks
* Accessory postmarks
* Postmarks and cancellations I.R. Spedizione Gazzette
* Bibliography
* APPENDIX - Summary tables of rarity scales
LARGE GOLD - EXPO 2021 CINISELLO
Cinisello Balsamo 8-10 ottobre 2021

LARGE GOLD - EXPO 2019 c/o PHILTEMA
Cinisello Balsamo 11-13 ottobre 2019

LARGE GOLD - ALPE ADRIA PORTOGALLO 2019
1-6 ottobre 2019

LARGE GOLD - ITALIA 2018
23 novembre 2018

LARGE VERMEIL - HELVETIA 2022
18-22 maggio 2022

LARGE VERMEIL - HUNFILEX 2022
31 marzo - 3 aprile 2022

LARGE VERMEIL - LONDON 2022
19-26 febbraio 2022

LARGE VERMEIL - NOTOS 2021
19-22 novembre 2021

BRONZE - SINDELFINGEN 2019
24-26 ottobre 2019
Sindelfingen, Germany
Cod. 2819E
EUR 80,00


Federico Borromeo
1770-1850 TRENTINO ALTO ADIGE
CATALOGO DELLE TIMBRATURE

206 pp. - colour and b/w illustrations - hardbound - printed 2022
Italian text

1770-1850 TRENTO REGION AND SOUTH TYROL
POSTMARKS CATALOGUE

This catalogue of the postmarks of the Trento and South Tyrol regions is aimed at illustrating, in a concise form, the political and postal histories of the said regions whose territories are nowadays included in the autonomous region by the same name with special statute.

Besides the Catalogue itself with a detailed listing of the postmarks found on mail processed by 52 post offices, this volume proposes the masterful study on postal history of the late August Zoppelli, an excursus on the Menz family and its formidable archive from which a lot of letters showing postmarks, many of them rare or very rare, come.
Another appealing chapter is the one delving into the mail from the Napoleonic military campaigns that afflicted the area from 1796 to 1813. Indeed a turbulent period with a very complex postal history.

There is much more, for example a very informative chapter on postal history, rates and postmarks, postal routes, the various phases of history, the detailed listing of handwritten place of provenance information on the address side of the outgoing mail, the free-frank handstamps accompanied by a detailed and informative listing in alphabetical order, registered mail and its auxiliary postmarks used during the various administrations also with a listing in alphabetical order, and also an exhaustive listing of the various postmarks utilizing a rarity scale from very rare to very common.

A very useful bibliography concludes the impressive volume.

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