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Italian Offices Abroad
starting 1st January 1874
See also British Offices - French Offices - German Offices - Spanish Offices
General issue - Africa - China - Crete -
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| SG1-9 |
perf 14, crown wmk
| Description | Date † | Scott | SG | Mi | Y&T | |
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| Italian stamps of 1863-72 altered and overprinted | ||||||
| 1 centesimi olive green | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2c orange-brown | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 5c slate green | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 10c buff | 4 | 4 | ||||
| 10c blue | 1879 | 5 | 10 | |||
| 20 blue | 6 | 5 | ||||
| 20c orange | 1878 | 7 | 11 | |||
| 30c brown | 8 | 6 | ||||
| 40c rose | 9 | 7 | ||||
| 60c lilac | 10 | 8 | ||||
| 2 lire vermilion | 11 | 9 | ||||
† Date of issue, where not 1874.
The catalogues state that these are the Italian stamps of 1863-72, "with corner designs slightly altered" (Scott [1] ) or "modified corners" (Gibbons [2]). Gibbons lists nine issues in its first set, illustrated above, while Scott includes two 1878/79 issues to make eleven. Most of the values have suffixed design variants (e.g. Sc1c, SG1b, "two square dots in lower right corner") that are outside the scope of this exercise.
Scott describes the stamps as used in "Italian Post Offices which, for various reasons, were maintained from time to time in foreign countries" Gibbons is rather more specific, listing them under Italian Post offices in the Turkish Empire and provides considerable detail on their use.
