328 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
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CREATIVITY FOR A POSTAGE STAMP
The essays of the Historical Museum of Communication

From the archives of the Historical Museum of Communication in Rome, a "treasure" of approximately 1,700 essays for postage stamps never materialized or sometimes "crystallized" at an earlier stage than they would have arrived at the post office counters. Items that have only partially, so far, been published in any specialist article.
Now they are collected, all together, in the book created by the Museum itself in collaboration with the Italian Philatelic Press Union.

The image of each item is proposed, associated with the title, summary description, main thematic categories, author, measures, inventory code attributed by the Museum.

There are numerous specialists, famous and otherwise, who in almost one century, from 1922 to 2000, have tried their hand at this communication method. Their works tell the story of the past, from great characters to battles, from artistic expressions to monuments. But they also document their present, such as institutional and political aspects, sporting events, the post-war recovery effort, European construction, campaigns against smoking and drugs, the protection of nature, road accidents...
Thus we discover the alternatives set aside, titles hypothesized and never realised. In short, a... behind the scenes that brings the reader closer to a fascinating sector, rich in cultural ideas that deserves to be valorised.

424 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
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UNIFICATO CATALOGUE EUROPE 2023
vol.10

Catalogue and listing of postage stamps from Yugoslavia, State S.H.S., Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatian Bosnia, Serbian Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Krajina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia.

This new edition has been enriched by the inclusion of a considerable number of images and comes out after a total revision of the texts and quotations, updated as much as possible with regards to new issues, covering, for almost all countries, the first Autumn issues of 2023.

304 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound - printed 2023
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FUTURIST POSTAL ART

In 1986, «Postal Futurisms» was organized, a traveling exhibition, accompanied by a substantial catalogue divided into three sections: thematic, biographical and typological, subtitled «Balla, Depero and futurist postal communication», edited by Maurizio Scudiero together with Enrico Sturani (who dealt with "the other Futurism").

This new study deals with the exquisitely futurist part and, over the course of the time that has passed, the knowledge and discoveries of unpublished material have been so many as to partially redefine the representative weight of the individual artists.

With an iconographic apparatus of 820 postcard images, you will have a precise sensation of how Futurist postal experimentalism was anything but an episodic fact, or linked to individual artists, but rather an aesthetic practice tout-court, and if we want to put it all of it, the true "originating act" of what we now call Mail Art.

390 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2024
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Second volume of the work, dedicated to the Italian-Turkish war and the first Italian years (1911-1920).
Richly illustrated and with the usual rigor of the text, it also contains the catalogue of office stamps, ships, aeronautical departments and unpublished catalogues of oval and censorship stamps, with many reproductions of documents.

In appendix, updates to vol.1

112 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
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CIF/UNIFICATO - STORIES OF THE POST
new series - vol.28 November 2023
Studies, News, Deep Analysis on Postal History & Communication
Magazine of the Italian Academy of Philately and Postal History

600 pp. - colour ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - 83rd ed. 2023
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SASSONE 2024 - 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).

New in the present edition, for the Royal Provinces of Emilia, Parma and Romagne have been added to Modena. A note concerns Papal State shipments with postage payable on delivery, with the list of known items, both from the Papal State and from Romagna and the related Provisional government. Furthermore, the use of papal postage stamps after 20 September 1870, also for mixed franking with Italy.

736 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 83rd ed. 2023
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SASSONE BLU 2024

Short edition. No quotations on cover.

Italian States - Kingdom - Italian Social Republic - Regency - Italian Republic (up to June 2022) - Trieste AMG-VG - Trieste AMG-FTT - San Marino (up to July 2023) - Vatican (up to June 2023) - Sovereign Military Order of Malta (up to June 2023).

1st + 2nd VOLUME - 2 vols. - 1200+636 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - 83rd ed. 2023

SASSONE 2024 - 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 2023.

600 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2024
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UNIFICATO CATALOGUE EUROPE 2024
vol.11

Catalogue and quotation of postage stamps from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Batum, Karelia, Caucasus, Estonia, Georgia, Nahicevan, Ingria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan Kep, Latvia, Lithuania, Memel, Moldavia, Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

New edition completely revised and updated with the addition of thousands of images for all chapters.
Countless price changes and all new issues up to mid/late 2023.

576 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 7th ed. 2024
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UNIFICATO CATALOGUE - REVENUE STAMPS 2024

Catalogue and quotation of Ancient States, Kingdom and Republic of Italy, Trieste, Rijeka, Italian Colonies and Possessions, Foreign Occupations of the Colonies, San Marino, Vatican City

All the revenue stamps issued from 1750 to the present day, with the countless types which have marked the history of Italy: from Livestock Registry to Wines and Spirits, Playing cards, Pharmacists, Matches, Journalists, Driving Licenses, Notebooks, Cigarettes, Silkworms Seeds, etc.

Besides the additions in the various chapters and the revaluation of prices, the new volume has been particularly enriched with band brands for DOC and DOCG wines of different formats and colours depending on the type of wine, with the presence or absence of their names and of the brand of the consortium to which they belong, brands for electronic cigarettes affixed on containers of liquids with or without nicotine, brands for reductions in railway fares issued on the occasion of fairs, events, jubilees or Holy Years, INPS brands for requesting duplicates of personal booklets.