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Cod. 2521E
EUR 58,00


Emoroso Oliviero
FIUME - 1918-1924
I servizi postali e la filatelia tra vicende
storiche e vita di tutti i giorni
EDIZIONE AGGIORNATA

434 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2018
Italian text

RIJEKA 1918-1924
Postal services and philately among historical events and every day's life

In over 400 pages, almost all illustrated, the author has analysed to the smallest detail all Rijeka philatelic issues and the relevant postal history with emphasis on historical events. That is very important for Rijeka postage stamps: to know them and to understand their meaning, we must place them in their historical context.

After WWI (1818-1924) Rijeka became an independent city, with its own currency and postage stamps. The search for facts is not easy since almost all the official documentation was destroyed or is lost.

This book represents a must to anyone who wants to study or collect postage stamps or postal history of Rijeka: it is an exhaustive work that consists of the compendium of the passionate commitment of many researchers that have gradually devoted themselves to place all the elements necessary to realise a mosaic as complete and acceptable as possible.

Every issue is examined technically and contextualized in accordance with the peculiar historical moment that has assisted to its birth. This is the reason why the book reports history and less known aspects of economy and of daily life of that period, including the monetary events that accompanied the transition from Hungarian crown to Lira. Also a series of philatelic themes, mostly still unexplored, are dealt with: postal history and, in particular, postal uses - rates, often obscure, failing accepted juridical references - cancellations and censor marks - military by surface, by air and by sea - postal stationery.

The book is divided into the following parts:
Part one - The inter-allied occupation
Part two - The inter-allied occupation goes on
Part three - The period of Gabriele d'Annunzio
Part four - From free State to annexation to Italy
USFI (Italian Union of Philatelic Press) yearly award named after Fulvio Apollonio

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