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This page includes one advertisement for Singer sewing machines. It’s one of the cheapest ones. Maybe because it was popular and there are plenty of them available for sale. The last one is an interesting one: it’s advertising Baci chocolates. The word baci means kisses. It seems this one and the other one next to it (i.e., Columbia) were never issued. I’m not sure why. Perhaps the program was canceled before they could be sold. It was the third one issued for Columbia, but the only one for Baci.

Note

On the previous page, there is another page of these publicity stamps, which is a bizzare concept to me coming from the U.S. where no such promotion is legal. I’m making slow progress on getting these. Most of them are very costly. I’ve been buying them one at a time when I find a moderately inexpesive one.

Some of the ones I’m missing, though, are very expensive: a few hundred euros each. I can’t see paying that much for a stamp. I could buy them used, canceled. But I’m trying to have all unused. Still, there are some stamps that I have to accepted that a clean used version is all I will get. An example of this is the Parmeggiani (1927, Sassone 242). Unused it would cost about € 20,000. Canceled, it costs from a few euros to a hundred, depending on whether the cancelation is clean and from a much sought city for this issue (e.g., Catania).

Contains 10 spots: own 5 – 5 unused, 0 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed Dec 6, 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

Advertisements

1.1	✓	PU12	De Montel Light Bulbs	50c (nov 1924) publicity, light violet
1.2		PU13	AmilcarePipernoAlcorso New Fabrics	50c (nov 1924) publicity, light violet
1.3		PU14	Reinach Machine Lubricants	50c (nov 1924) publicity, light violet
1.4	✓	PU15	Siero Casali Spoonful/Day Fights & Cures	50c (dec 1924) publicity, light violet
2.1	✓	PU16	Singer Sewing Machines	50c (nov 1924) publicity, light violet
2.2		PU17	Tagliacozzo Kits Special Linen House	50c (nov 1924) publicity, light violet
2.3		PU18	Tantal Extra Liquors: Best in Business	50c (jan 1925) publicity, light violet
2.4		PU19	Columbia Graphophone: Lira/Day	1₤ (dec 1924) publicity, multi-color
3.1	✓	PU20	Columbia Graphophone: Lira/Day	20c (1924) publicity, orange
3.2	✓	PU21	Baci Perugina Chocolates	60c (1924) publicity, 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.