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1917 Naples to Palermo flight cover bearing IDROVOLANTE 25c on 40c violet tied special cds with ROMA 27.6.17 cds alongside, and Palermo 28.6.17 arrival backstamp. Nice flight cover.
1926 (1 April) Trieste to Torino First Flight cover Venezia to Torino with nice trio combination of 60c grey air, 60c Assisi and 30c grey defin tied red Venezia or Torino cds cancels, oval flight cachet in black.
1926 (18 Aug) Printed Envelope 1st Air service Venice to Vienna bearing airs 60c grey pair and 1l blue tied VENEZIA cds cancel and WIEN FLUGPOST arrival cds in red on obverse. Horizontal fold otherwise fine.
1930 (15 Jan) Special flight to Brazil postcard with printed 1930 Annoix Crociera Aerea Transatlantica Italia Brasile. mixed Franking of Italy 50c air plus Vatican City 30c tied air cds's with flight etiquette in blue and gold tied Tripoli cds cancel on arrival. Very fine. Only 70 items were carried on this flight.
1939 (10 Jun) Postcard for First World Congress of the Aeronautical press Rome, 20th Anniv. of Italy wing June 1939: International Photography Exhibition flight card to Catania bearing 1938 10c Proclamation defin tied special cds. Special 3 line Congress handstamp. Fine.
1948 600th Birth Anniv. of St Catharine complete set to 200l unmounted mint, SG 698/703.
1949 150th Anniv. Volta P.14 set of two unmounted mint in top right setenant strips with labels from the sheet. Cat £200. Hinged in margins only.
1949 European Recovery Plan set of three unmounted mint, SG 727/9 Cat £180.
1966 Giotto's 700th Birth Anniv. unmounted mint showing RED, BROWN & GREEN OMITTED variety with normal for comparison, leaving just a mottled outline very striking error. SG 1168 var.
Italian Post Offices in Libya: Tripoli; 1909 Tripoli di Barberia overprint on 10 different values mounted mint (usual tropical gum) including 5c green (Cat £170), 1l brown and green (Cat £170), 5l blue and rose top value, mainly sound SG, 174/181, E182/3 Cat £460.
P.O. in Turkish Empire: ESTERO overprints mint on 1881 issues set of 5 to 50c mint, 1874 2l orange-red unused no gum. SG 9, 12/16.
Post Offices in Libya: 1901 1pi on 25c very fine used, few blunt perfs, SG 169. Cat £200.
