Definitives
Here we have more definitives, as described on the Modern Design page of this album. There’s not much more to say about the first three rows of stamps here.
The fourth and fifth rows, however, are printed with a new design of the king. The designer was Carlo Parmeggiani, a painter and book illustrator who was born in Ferrara, but lived in Milan. This new stamp design was in celebration of the king’s jubilee.
This may seem odd issuing these stamps were issued twenty-seven to twenty-nine years after he became king in June 1900. That’s because these weren’t the first with this new image. There are more of them on the next page that were issued in June 1925, on his twenty-fifth anniversary: if you’re on a desktop or laptop computer, you can see the dates in the first few rows of the table on that page.
They probably should be placed first, before the ones on this page, but it’s the style of the publisher of this album, Leuchtturm, to organize based on visual concerns rather than strictly numerical order.
Note
This page is full, but not yet complete. My goal is to get all unused stamps. Then this page will be complete. Only one of these stamps are used: it’s so close to completion. The one at the end of row five, the brown 1.75₤ stamp showing the king in his military dress uniform, is absurdly expensive when unused. Most of the ones I’ve seen on-line have a price of € 20,000. It’s crazy. I don’t know why the pubilsher of this stamp album, Lighthouse included a space for it. Maybe I can find a cleaner used one and leave it at that. Even some of the used ones I see, though, sell for about a thousand euros. So I may be finished with this page.
Contains 24 spots: own 24 – 23 unused, 1 used.
Page is full, but not yet 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 |
Michetti Design
✓ |
183 |
20c (mar 1925) |
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✓ |
184 |
20c (jun 1925) |
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✓ |
204 |
20c (jul 1926) |
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✓ |
83 |
25c (jan 1908) |
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✓ |
219 |
25c (aug 1927) |
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✓ |
127 |
30c (sep 1922) |
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✓ |
185 |
30c (aug 1925) |
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✓ |
84 |
40c (jan 1908) |
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✓ |
85 |
50c (jan 1908) |
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✓ |
110 |
55c (dec 1920) |
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✓ |
111 |
60c (jan 1918) |
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✓ |
157 |
60c (dec 1923) |
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✓ |
205 |
60c (jul 1926) |
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✓ |
112 |
85c (dec 1920) |
Parmeggiani Design
✓ |
214 |
1.75₤ (nov 1927) |
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✓ |
215 |
1.85₤ (apr 1927) |
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✓ |
216 |
2.55₤ (sep 1927) |
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✓ |
217 |
2.65₤ (apr 1927) |
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◎ |
242 |
1.75₤ (1927) |
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✓ |
218 |
50c (aug 1927) |
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✓ |
224 |
7½c (jun 1928) |
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✓ |
240 |
15c (feb 1929) |
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✓ |
241 |
35c (feb 1929) |
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✓ |
225 |
50c (jul 1928) |
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.
