Vittorio Vento

On November 3, 1918, Italy was victorious over the Austrians at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. This battle is said to have ended the Austro-Hungarian empire and led to the end of World War I a week later.

The stamps on the bottom two rows of this album page are of the goddess, Victoria and are in celebration of that victory. It’s surprising that for such a major military accomplishment that the stamps for this event were not more elaborate. Plus, I don’t know why they issued the in Libya given that it has nothing to do with the Libyans – other than to brag.

Note

As I wrote on the previous page, I redesigned this page, recently. I think it looks good and is much better than what I had previously. However, I still need to confirm that I have the stamps from the Libyan pictoral series in the correct spots. There are only slight deviations from each set contained on this page, compared to those on the previous and the two subsequent pages.

Contains 13 spots: own 10 – 8 unused, 2 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed Feb 22, 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

Libya Pictorials I

1.1	✓	27	Ancient Galley	30c (jul 1921) definitive, black & dark brown
1.2	✗	28	Ancient Galley	50c (jul 1921) definitive, olive & black
1.3		29	Ancient Galley	55c (jul 1921) definitive, violet & black
2.1	✗	30	Winged Victory	1₤ (jul 1921) definitive, bistre & brownish
2.2		31	Winged Victory	5₤ (jul 1921) definitive, black & dark blue
2.3		32	Winged Victory	10₤ (jul 1921) definitive, olive & dark blue

Vittorio Emanuele III

3.1	✓	33	Vittorio Emanuele III	15c (jul 1921) definitive, slate
3.2	✓	38	Vittorio Emanuele III	40c (jun 1922) definitive, light violet
3.3	✓	39	Vittorio Emanuele III	80c (jun 1922) definitive, blue

Battle of Vittorio Veneto

4.1	✓	34	Vittorio Veneto	5c (apr 1922) comm., olive & green
4.2	✓	35	Vittorio Veneto	10c (apr 1922) comm., red & carmine
5.1	✓	36	Vittorio Veneto	15c (apr 1922) comm., slate
5.2	✓	37	Vittorio Veneto	25c (apr 1922) comm., ultramarine

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.