Valor Medal - Air Mail

These stamps are to commemorate the hundred years since the Military Order of Italy medal was reinstated by Carlo Alberto I in 1833. I’ve written more on the history of this medal on the previous page.

The stamps depict scenes of several soldiers fighting in Italy’s wars. I’m not sure if they’re showing specific soldiers, though. Most of them were used for ordinary postage. A few of them, though, were semi-postal stamps. In addition to the regular postal amount, there’s an additional charge which was used for some sort of chartiy – probably some pet project of the Fascist party of the time.

Note

This album page, as well as the previous one, was empty for a long time. But I bought recently the missing stamps on them. So now I have many completed pages in a row – about three dozen. Although I don’t care much for these stamps, that’s very satisfying.

Contains 9 spots: own 9 – 9 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

Medal of Valor

1.1	✓	A74	Dirigible Balloon Pioneers of the Air	25c (sep 1934) air mail, green
2.1	✓	A75	Torpedo Boats Hearts of Lions on Vigilant Prows	50c (sep 1934) air mail, grey
2.2	✓	A76	Torpedo Boats Hearts of Lions on Vigilant Prows	75c (sep 1934) air mail, brown
2.3	✓	A77	Dirigible Balloon Pioneers of the Air	80c (sep 1934) air mail, grey

Semi-Postal

3.1	✓	A78	Colonial Troops The Faithful Overseas	1+0.50₤ (sep 1934) air mail, orange
3.2	✓	A80	Unknown Soldier Monument	3+2₤ (sep 1934) air mail, grey
3.3	✓	A79	Aviation in Libya Eagles of Italy	2+1₤ (sep 1934) air mail, sky blue
4.1	✓	A81	Arch of Constantine The Furrow of Glory	2+1.25₤ (sep 1934) air mail, brown
4.2	✓	A82	Arch of Constantine The Furrow of Glory	4.50+2₤ (sep 1934) air mail, red

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.