Garibaldi

If it wasn’t for Giuseppe Garibaldi, there would be no Italy – at least not the country as we now know it. Before him, it was just a peninsula and a large region composed of several countries, much like Scandanavia. There were similarities between the languages, but they were separate and distinct languages, not dialects of Italian as people in Italy like to say. A dialect is basically a deviation from a mother language. Instead, some time after the unification of Italy by Garibaldi in the 1860s, the Tuscan language was selected as the official language of Italy. It was afterall the language in which wrote many great literary writers (e.g., Dante, Plutarch, Manzoni).

Regarding Garibaldi, I’ve already written about him on the Garibaldi & 50 Years page. Those stamps, from 1910, were commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the forming of Italy and Garibaldi’s role in that event. The stamps on this album page, from 1932, are commemorating only Garibaldi on the fiftieth anniversary of his death. There are several scenes including his birthplace, his wife, as well as Garibaldi with the King Vittorio Emanuele II, and Garibaldi with Nino Bixio, a military comrade and fellow leader of the Red Shirts – Garibaldi’s revolutionaries.

Note

Here’s another satisfyingly completed album page, containing all of the stamps in unused condition. Recently, I found the stamps I needed to complete the previous pages. The results are that I’ve finished about three dozen pages in a row. That’s the effect I’ve been looking to accomplish.

Contains 17 spots: own 17 – 17 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Oct 28, 2022

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

Giuseppe Garibaldi

1.1	✓	315	Garibaldi’s Birthplace: Nice	10c (apr 1932) comm., grey
1.2	✓	316	Garibaldi & Vittorio II	20c (apr 1932) comm., brown
1.3	✓	317	Garibaldi & Nino Bixio Battle of Calatafi	25c (apr 1932) comm., green
2.1	✓	318	Garibaldi & Vittorio II Teano, Campania	30c (apr 1932) comm., orange
2.2	✓	319	Garibaldi & Nino Bixio Battle of Calatafi	50c (apr 1932) comm., purple
2.3	✓	320	Death of Anita Garibaldi	75c (apr 1932) comm., red
3.1	✓	321	Garibaldi’s Tomb: Caprera	1.25₤ (apr 1932) comm., sky blue

Garibaldi - Semi-Postal

3.2	✓	322	Quarto Rock	1.75+0.25₤ (apr 1932) semi-postal, sky blue
3.3	✓	323	Garibaldi Monument: Rome	2.55+0.50₤ (apr 1932) semi-postal, red
3.4	✓	324	Garibaldi’s Birthplace: Nice	5+1₤ (apr 1932) semi-postal, red

Garibaldi - Air Mail

4.1	✓	A32	Garibaldi House: Caprera	50c (apr 1932) air mail, red
4.2	✓	A33	Shed Pontaccio	80c (apr 1932) air mail, green
4.3	✓	A34	Garibaldi House: Caprera	1+0.25₤ (apr 1932) air mail, red
4.4	✓	A35	Anita Garibaldi by Gaetano Gallino	2+0.50₤ (apr 1932) air mail, sky blue
4.5	✓	A36	Giuseppe Garibaldi	5+1₤ (apr 1932) air mail, green
5.1	✓	A37	Air Express Mail First in World for Service	2.25+1₤ (apr 1932) air mail, red & grey
5.2	✓	A38	Air Express Mail First in World for Service	4.50+1.50₤ (apr 1932) air mail, green & maroon

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.