Fascist March

The Fascist political party, with Benito Mussolini as its party leader, planned an insurrection to take place in Rome on October 28, 1922, known as the March on Rome. When fascist demonstrators and Blackshirt paramilitaries entered Rome, Prime Minister Luigi Facta declared a state of siege to activate the military to stop them, but the king overruled him. Instead, the next day the king instead appointed Mussolini as Prime Minister, replacing Facta, and giving the fascists control of the government without armed conflict. These stamps are meant to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the March on Rome.

Note

These stamps are similar in style and message as the ones issued at the same time in the Kingdom. See my Fascist in Control page in my Italy Kingdom album. The images, though, are different here. There are pictures of camels and Africans on these stamps.

Contains 18 spots: own 0 – 0 unused, 0 used.

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

March on Rome: 10 Years

1.1	32	Grain & Farming Tools	5c (10 1933) comm., orange
1.2	34	Steamroller	50c (10 1933) comm., violet
1.3	35	Grain & Farming Tools	75c (10 1933) comm., carmine rose
2.1	33	Arab with Camel	25c (10 1933) comm., green
2.2	36	Arab with Camel	₤1.25 (10 1933) comm., blue
2.3	39	Arab with Camel	₤5 (10 1933) comm., sepia
2.4	41	Libyan Youth	₤25 (12 1933) comm., greenish black
3.1	37	Steamroller	₤1.75 (10 1933) comm., carmine
3.2	38	Grain & Farming Tools	₤2.75 (10 1933) comm., greyish blue
3.3	40	Steamroller	₤10 (10 1933) comm., slate
4.1	A22	Seaplane	50c (10 1933) air mail, red brown
4.2	A23	Trimotor Plane	75c (10 1933) air mail, lilac
4.3	A24	Seaplane	₤1 (10 1933) air mail, brown
5.1	A25	Trimotor Plane	₤3 (10 1933) air mail, dark olive grey
5.2	A26	Seaplane	₤10 (10 1933) air mail, grey lilac
5.3	A27	Trimotor Plane	₤12 (10 1933) air mail, bluish green
6.1	A28	Starting Aircraft	₤20 (10 1933) air mail, black green
6.2	A29	Aircraft Engine	₤50 (12 1933) air mail, blue

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.