Revenue & Postage Due

This sub-album contains some unusual stamps, besides postage due stamps. First, there are two pages of stamps – this one and the next – for regular postage, but they include commercial advertising. There are also stamps for special items such as municipal postage. There are others for money orders and use on special envelops.

Advertisements

In the U.S., living persons and companies are not allowed to be depicted on stamps. A person has to be deceased or the organization strictly a charity or government agency. So, a dead president and the Red Cross are fine. For me, the stamps on this page and the next which show the logos and advertisements for several on-going businesses in Italy at the time is absurd – some are still in business.

I’m assuming these stamps were printed and sold as a revenue generator for the government. In addition to the price of postage, the businesses must have donate money to the government for each stamp sold. I’m not sure about the timing. World War I was over and the next world war was not even being considered. Most western countries were prospering in the mid to late 1920s. It would not be until the end of the decade before the Great Depression would start. However, after doing a little research, it seems that there was a problem with inflation, leading to runaway inflation in some parts of Europe. So, the Italian post office may have been trying to supplement its budget.

Note

Getting these stamps is a slow crawl. I’ve bought all of the cheaper ones. The rest are moderately expensive. It will require me to keep watching the sites of some of the local stamp dealers and having patience to find them at affordable prices. I’ve made some progress: I have all of the ones on the top row, some on the other two rows, and a few on the next page. These pages are starting to look respectable.

It’s a matter of which pages in my collections are priorities. Given the difficulty in finding these advertisement stamps, these two pages are not a priority.

Contains 11 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed Aug 23, 2023

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

Advertisements

1.1	✓	PU1	Campari Bitter	15c (jan 1925) publicity, slate
1.2	✓	PU2	Columbia Graphophone: Lira/Day	15c (nov 1924) publicity, slate
1.3	✓	PU3	Campari Cordial	15c (jan 1925) publicity, slate
1.4	✓	PU4	Abrador Have You Tried It?	25c (jan 1925) publicity, blue
2.1	✓	PU5	Coen Linen Fabrics	25c (nov 1924) publicity, blue
2.2		PU6	AmilcarePipernoAlcorso New Fabrics	25c (nov 1924) publicity, blue
2.3	✓	PU7	Reinach Machine Lubricants	25c (jan 1925) publicity, blue
2.4		PU8	Tagliacozzo Kits Special Linen House	25c (nov 1924) publicity, blue
3.1	✓	PU9	Columbia Graphophone: Lira/Day	30c (nov 1924) publicity, orange brown
3.2		PU10	Coen Linen Fabrics	50c (nov 1924) publicity, light violet
3.3	✓	PU11	Columbia Graphophone: Lira/Day	50c (nov 1924) publicity, light violet

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.

remaining stamps & stories in sub-album

page	story	note	used	need

Main Page	✓	✓		3
Advertisements	✓	✓		5
Postage Due	✓	✓	6	15
Postage Due	✓	✓	1	3°
State & Comune	✓	✓		2
B.L.P.	✓	✓		9