56 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2003
Italian text

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SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year IV - n.8 - December 2003

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

110 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2023
English text

Post Horn is a magazine of International Postal History offering, through an international network, articles to readers who are interested in a broader view of the history of the post and of philately.

* Claudio Ernesto Manzati, Aiming at higher heights
* William Velvel Moskoff, Residence permit stamps in prerevolutionary Russia
* Roberto Quondamatteo, Women in philately: Marie Curie
* Klaus Weis, The «ups and downs» for short-distance letters a reflection of Baden postal reforms 1851-1871
* Danny Kin Chi Wong, Postal history of Port Arthur and Dalian 1945-55

HIGHLIGHT
* Alexander Haimann, Clash of Empires: anglo-zulu war
* Giuseppe Razza, The mail route of a spy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in Costantinople
* Devlan Kurck, The extraordinary charm of philately – the most valuable stamp of Asia
* David Lee / Giorgio Migliavacca, La Bolgetta – Mail Bag

110 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2023
Italian text

Post Horn is a magazine of International Postal History offering, through an international network, articles to readers who are interested in a broader view of the history of the post and of philately.

* Claudio Ernesto Manzati, Puntare sempre più in alto
* William Velvel Moskoff, I francobolli fiscali per il permesso di residenza nella Russia prerivoluzionaria
* Roberto Quondamatteo, Le donne nella filatelia: Marie Curie
* Klaus Weis, «Il su e giù» delle lettere per la breve distanza nella riforma postale nel Ducato di Baden al tempo dei primi francobolli 1851-1871
* Danny Kin Chi Wong, Storia postale di Port Arthur e Dalian 1945-55

IN EVIDENZA
* Alexander Haimann, Scontro tra Imperi: la guerra anglo-zulu
* Giuseppe Razza, La via della posta di una spia del Regno delle Due Sicilie a Costantinopoli
* Devlan Kurck, Il fascino straordinario della filatelia – il francobollo più prezioso dell'Asia
* David Lee / Giorgio Migliavacca, La Bolgetta

colour card slip-case with title of the work in 5 vols.

"FRIULI" SQUARED CIRCLE POSTMARKS AND POSTAL DOCUMENTS
SLIP-CASE

Slip-case to collect the 5 volumes of the complete work.

92 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2022
English text

Post Horn is a magazine of International Postal History offering, through an international network, articles to readers who are interested in a broader view of the history of the post and of philately.

* Thomas Mathà, Every cloud (even Covid) has a silver lining
* Klaus Weis, The furthest journey of a mulready envelope accompanied by «Bounty immigrants» in 1840
* William Velvel Moskoff and Carol Gayle, Soviet World War II propaganda: invoking the heroes of the past
* Mario Mentaschi, The progression of letters rates in Sicily
* Danny Kin Chi Wong, Macao 19th Century postal history

HIGHLIGHT
* Thomas Mathà, A new world rarity was discovered: color error Austria 1867 red instead of green used 1870 in Vienna. An exclusive Post Horn discovery
* Roberto Quondamatteo, Women in philately: Elizabeth II
* Giorgio Migliavacca, La Bolgetta – Mail Bag
* The discreete charm of postal history, Uncommon items and fascinating pieces of postal history

80 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2003
Italian text

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year IV - n.6-7 - December 2002 - June 2003

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

5 vols. - 400 total pp. - b/w and colour ill. - saddle stitch binding
Italian text

"FRIULI" SQUARED CIRCLE POSTMARKS AND POSTAL DOCUMENTS
COMPLETE WORK

The squared circle postmarks used in the provinces of Udine and Pordenone, divided into five volumes by districts and post offices in alphabetical order. Information is given such as indication of denomination, type and class, fractional numbers, besides the reproduction of postmarks and of one postal document bearing it, of possible varieties.

264 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2021
Italian text

THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
VOL.VI - THE "PIEDMONTESE NATION" POSTMARKS (1800-1802)
First part

The departure postmarks used by Piedmont post offices since the middle of the year 1800, prepared for as many as 102 post offices existing at the time. The offices covered in this first part are 50 in order of first use of the relative mark.

The authors were able to detect unknown postmarks and dates that anticipated or extended the period of use that appeared in Vollmeier's great work.

Considering the places where the High Police Courts were established, namely Turin, Ivrea, Mondovì, Asti, Alessandria, Vercelli, it was possible to establish that the post offices of these localities were the first to receive the departure postmarks of the "Piedmontese nation".

An element that positively characterized the postal service in the Kingdom of France was the use of postmarks, which allowed clerks to apply the correct rates and recipients to know the place from which the letter had left. With the second French invasion in 1800, postal customs from across the Alps made their way into occupied Piedmont. The postal clerks had already noticed the presence of the postmarks on correspondence from France and understood their usefulness. They also knew that this use would sooner or later also be introduced in the Piedmont offices and, while awaiting these postmarks, they were precursors, since they added the name of the departure place by hand.

With the annexation of Piedmont to the French Republic, the Sardinian postal service was also Frenchised and the Paris Post Administration Office sent the new departmental marks, characterized by the department number, to the most important post offices in Piedmont. They replaced the postmarks of the "Piedmontese nation".

120 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2022
English text

Post Horn is a magazine of International Postal History offering, through an international network, articles to readers who are interested in a broader view of the history of the post and of philately.

* Claudio Ernesto Manzati, Paving the road to postal history with an innovative approach
* Alessandro Magiera, Bolo Pasha a male Matha Hari
* William Velvel Moskoff, Advertising the products of Russia's triangle factory
* Antonello Fumu, The Italian post office in Alexandria (Egypt).
* Danny Kin Chi Wong, Imperial Maritime customs: the beginning of the modern postal service in China
* Claudio Ernesto Manzati, the North Pole conquest

HIGHLIGHT
* Gerhard Lang-Valchs, Giovanni Patroni: re-discovering a forgotten forger
* Roberto Quondamatteo, Women in Philately: Marilyn Monroe
* Giorgio Migliavacca, La Bolgetta – Mail Bag
* The discreet charm of Postal History, Uncommon items and fascinating pieces of postal history

56 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2002
Italian text

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year III - n.1 - June 2002

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

280 pp. - colour ill. - cloth with colour cover - printed 2004
RARITY SCALE VALUATIONS
Turkish and English text

Volume V (Letters "H-I-Ï")

The 5th of 10 volumes in colour has been published. This is the result of 20 years of research, supported with extensive material from some of the most important Turkish Postal History Collections from all around the world.
It incorporates detailed information about the post offices with the original Turkish name, the French one, the provinces and todays' name.
Each postmark has been illustrated, and given known usage dates, a type category and rarity.

WORK GENERAL PLAN
vol. 1 "A"
vol. 2 "B"
vol. 3 "C, Ç, D"
vol. 4 "E, F, G"
vol. 5 "H, I, Ï"
vol. 6 "J, K, L"
vol. 7 "M, N"
vol. 8 "O, Ö, P, R"
vol. 9 "S"
vol. 10 "T, U, Ü, V, Y, Z".

348 pp. - more than 300 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2019
Italian text

THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
VOL.V - THE KINGDOM OF CARLO EMANUELE IV
(16 October 1796 - 4 June 1802)

This book examines the Piedmontese events from 10 October 1796, coronation of Carlo Emanuele IV, up to 4 June 1802, his abdication.

The historical facts of this timeframe of six years are: the French occupation, the escape of the King to Sardinia, the Republican Provisional Government, the Austro-Russian Restoration, the new pro-French Provisional Government, the "Piedmontese Nation", the 27th military division and, in the course of these events, the life of Post until the modifications of postal distances in 1801.

172 pp. - softbound - printed 1997
Italian text

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ANNOTATED PHILATELIC AND POSTAL HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
LOMBARDY – VENETO

Useful bibliography which lists the titles of volumes or magazines articles on Lombardy and Veneto.

52 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2001
Italian and English text

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year II - n.2 - December 2001

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

224 pp. - more than 400 b/w illustrations - format cm 21x29,7 - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2003
series "History through documents"
English text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

Philately and postal history of Ethiopia of the period 1895-1936 are well documented; however, until now, no comprehensive documentation was available for the period 1936, end of the Italo-Ethiopian war, to 1974, year of deposition of Emperor Hailé Selassié I. This book now fills the gap.

Throughout the book chapters devoted to the historical backgrounds summarize the facts of the different periods and in some cases indicate the reasons for some issues.
The period 1936-1974, from the end of the Italo-Ethiopian war to the deposition of Emperor Hailé Selassié I, a rather elusive period for the Ethiopian postal history, has been studied. One chapter devoted to the post offices during the Italian occupation reports all the towns and villages that had a post office and the number of different types of cancellors used. Another chapter deals in detail with the postal arrangements of the period January 1941 - 31 January 1942 during the liberation of Italian East Africa (A.O.I.) The types and numbers of Military post cancellors used in Ethiopia during the liberation war are reported together with their period of use in the country.
All the sets issued after the restoration are described in detail giving information not reported in the stamp catalogues. New information is included, therefore: the reasons for the issues, the number of sets printed, the reported and some unreported varieties both of colour and of overprinting and much more information not generally available to collectors.
Many unreported facts deriving from unpublished studies by the author are also included in this new book.

The appendices are an important addition to the book and include a list of the Ethiopian post offices in the period 1942-1974 and a list of the known cancellors with the reproduction of most of them.
The most interesting and new appendix concerns the postal rates of the period 1942 to 1974 which until now were a mystery. The author obtained from U.P.U. the official documentation for surface and airmail rates that were not even available in Ethiopia, thus enlarging the knowledge and the scope of the Ethiopian postal history. This aspect of postal history is completed by the study of the airlines operations from 1940 through the restarting of the Ethiopian Airlines in 1947 and to 1974.
Other appendices include a list of postal stationery, postal cards and registration labels.
An elusive topic is the postal rates of the Italian East Africa, a very difficult sector with some information that shows its difficulty. Other appendices covering other aspects of postal history are also included.

A table of equivalence between catalogues will help collectors of different countries to recognise the sets and stamps that are hidden in the numbering of other catalogues.

334 pp. - almost 500 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
Italian text

THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
VOL. IV THE KINGDOM OF VITTORIO AMEDEO III (1773-1796)
AND THE POSTAL RATES OF 1795 BASED ON THE DISTANCE IN "POST"

The Kingdom of Vittorio Amedeo III lasted from 1773 to 1796, for a period of almost twenty years.
Regarding Post, everything happened according to the well-known patents of 1772, with the rate system described in the 3rd volume.
The second period of kingdom of this unfortunate king was, instead, anything but quiet, starting from the French Revolution that, in 1789, upset the entire Europe.

Just during this troubled period, an important postal reform was implemented in Turin, modifying completely the method used in correspondence taxation. A criterion completely new for Piedmont was introduced with the patents of 1795, that is binding the postage of letters to the distance between the location of departure and to the one of destination (criterion already applied in France on the basis of the leagues travelled). The longer was the route the higher was the postage to pay on delivery. Since the journeys used for post by horse were measured in "post", the same was done for letters. So the parameters became two: one was the kind of letter (simple, covered, double, by ounce) and the other one was for the distance measured in "post".

518 pp. - format cm 17x24 - softbound - reprint 2000
series "The Recoveries"
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

PRACTICAL AUSTRIAN POSTAL SERVICE

Systematical collection of regulations relevant to Posta-lettere and mail coaches, edited by Adalberto Cassinelli on the bases of ordinances in force. First free version from German by Giulio Printz, 1865.

Reprinted from the original with the preface by Lorenzo Carra who, after an accurate and hard research, presents this important technical work rich in references to laws, articles, decrees, regulations and circulars relevant to the Post in Austria and in Lombardy Venetia. The volume is divided into 110 chapters with many appendices and several tables.

63 pp. - softbound - printed 2000
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)

ANNOTATED PHILATELIC AND POSTAL HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
TUSCANY

Useful bibliography which lists the titles of volumes or magazines articles.

52 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2001
Italian and English text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year II - n.1 - June 2001

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

160 pp. - 132 b/w ill. - format cm 21x29,7 - softbound - printed 2002
series "History through documents"
English text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

Since the publication of the addendum it seemed necessary to have a more global, complete and detailed vision of the postal history of the early period (1867-1908) and to correct prior information that seemed incorrect. Thanks to the results of recent researches this task has been now achieved and the postal history of the pre- U.P.U. period has now been outlined in its essential features.

This completely new book includes many subjects not treated in the previous book such as detailed studies on the Napier expedition with some unpublished information, on Egyptian and Italian offices in Ethiopia, and a new study on the mail abroad by non-French means. One chapter devoted to the newly discovered early cancellors, a study on mail of the Italian-Ethiopian war of 1895-96, on the French Post of Harar and the use of its cancellors from October 1899 are also included.

Other chapters have been completely revised such as those concerning the years 1899, 1904-05 with the description of some newly found postal rates still unpublished and the organization period (1908). Each chapter includes detailed information on the known mail.

A detailed report of all cancellors used in Ethiopia with all types and colours, including those of Obock and Djibuti, is also included. Reproductions, with a few exceptions, are new and unpublished.

An interesting peculiarity is the fact that a floppy disk containing the essential information on all known covers, postal cards and picture postcards of the period 1895-1908 is enclosed to the book. The "List of Ethiopian mail" (Lem) floppy disk is PC and Mac formatted; Acrobat .pdf, Microsoft Excel .xls and html files.

A "definitive" text on the postal history of the pre-U.P.U. period of Ethiopia.