Italian States
Covers and stamps / Italian States / Insufficiently franked / Maritime
(Tuscany) 1860 (12.7.) outer letter sheet to Genova bearing single franking 20c light greenish grey-blue, just touched, tied by Livorno cds with further strike alongside, underpaid with P.D. obliterated with five bar cancel, italic ‘Insufficiente’ handstamp applied at top, manuscript “3” and red ‘Da Livorno/ VIA DI MARE’, arrival backstamp. A very fine and scarce usage, Raybaudi Cert.
£255
Italian States
Covers and stamps / Italian States
1850s small piece bearing five examples of 30c brown, type III, each with good margins and cancelled by three two-line SONDRIO date stamps; initialled AD, fine condition.
£55
ITALIAN STATES: (Papal States)
Covers and stamps / Italian States
1853 outer letter sheet to Napoli franked 2 x 5 Baj., each cancelled with 'IMP' handstamp (Impostazione); ANCONA cds at centre, arrival backstamp.
£135
1767
Covers and stamps / Greece / Italian States / Disinfected mail / Forwarding Agents / Smyrna
Greece 1767 folded entire from Smyrne, forwarded at Salonique by "Tavernier" (recorded by Rowe in 1767 only), held for three weeks and then sent to Naples where disinfected, a yellow cursive 'Salonico' applied in transit at Rome by the Neapolitan post Office; a rare item.