Elephants & Lions

To promote and encourage the colonization of Africa, the African Society of Italy (Società Africana d’Italia), the Italian Colonial Institute (Istituto Coloniale Italiano ), and the Italian Geographical Society (Società Geografica Italiana) and other organizations sought to educate the Italian public about Africa and its uniqueness. African elephants and lions are something particularly fascinating to Italians since they don’t naturally exist on the Italian peninsula.

Note

When I designed this album pages, I didn’t quite understand the difference between the two sets on this page. I thought like most in other series, it was the perforation. In this case, I seem to have been mistaken. I can relabel them easily on this web page, but on the printed page it’s not as easy to make changes. For the bottom set, I have that they have a perforation of 12. That’s not correct. They’re actually 14.

Contains 14 spots: own 14 – 14 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Feb 4, 2025

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

Somalia Pictorials Overprinted I

1.1	✓	54	African Elephant	2c (nov 1922) definitive, dark brown
1.2	✓	55	African Elephant	5c (nov 1922) definitive, green
1.3	✓	56	African Lion	10c (nov 1922) definitive, brownish red
1.4	✓	57	African Lion	15c (nov 1922) definitive, brown orange
2.1	✓	58	African Lion	25c (nov 1922) definitive, blue
2.2	✓	59	African Lion	50c (nov 1922) definitive, yellow orange
2.3	✓	60	African Lion	1₤ (nov 1922) definitive, lilac

Somalia Pictorials Overprinted II

3.1	✓	80	African Elephant	2c (jul 1924) definitive, dark brown
3.2	✓	81	African Elephant	5c (jul 1924) definitive, green
3.3	✓	82	African Lion	10c (jul 1924) definitive, brownish red
3.4	✓	83	African Lion	15c (jul 1924) definitive, brown orange
4.1	✓	84	African Lion	25c (jul 1924) definitive, blue
4.2	✓	85	African Lion	50c (jul 1924) definitive, yellow orange
4.3	✓	86	African Lion	1₤ (jul 1924) definitive, lilac

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.