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Cod. 2385E
EUR 40,00


Alessandro Arseni
COLLEZIONE FENICE
EGITTO
Servizi Postali Marittimi degli Uffici Italiani 1863-1880

92 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - 1st ed. 2011
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

COLLECTION FENICE
EGYPT
Maritime postal services of Italian offices 1863-1880
Series "Great Italian Collections" n.1
Preface by Ulrich Felzmann

The author intends to publish a series of volumes to illustrate important Italian collections, before they get sold or separated, in order to show the collectors' original work.

In the present first volume, the rarities of Italian offices in Egypt, postal history, rate, cancellations used on the different issues. The most important items have been reproduced, in chronological order by issue, rate, navigation line. One chapter is devoted to issues specially overprinted for Italian offices abroad.

Particular attention has been given to Italian, French, Austrian and English navigation lines, which carried mail from and to Alexandria. A really useful special table, the result of many years of research, lists all the departure and arrival dates of "Rubattino" ships in the Egypt line.

CONTENTS

* Publisher's Preface
* Author's Introduction
* History
* EGYPT - Postal history; Postal rates; Cancellations; Postal communications
* NAVIGATION LINES - English; French; Italian; Austrian
* COLLECTION - Italian post office; Use of Sardinian postage stamps; Use of De La Rue postage stamps; Money orders; Egypt-Italy franking, Postage-due labels; Issues "estero", postage stamps; Issues "estero" letters; English post office; Austrian post office; French post office
* EGYPTIAN LINE - Arrivals and departures 1870-1877; Arrivals and departures 1877-1880
* Bibliography

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