Royal Jubilee

The design of the stamps on this page with the king wearing a military dress uniform, including several medals on his chest, is by Carlo Parmeggiani, like the ones on the Kingdom Definitives page. This stamp design was in celebration of the Vittorio Emanuele III’s royal jubilee: twenty-five years as king of the Kingdom of Italy. That seems to be why he was in dress uniform for the portrait.

A Marvelous Saint

One of my favorite saints is St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint animals and nature. He and St. Catherine of Siena were also patron saints of Italy. St. Francis founded the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of Saint Clare (i.e., the Poor Clares), and the Third Order of Saint Francis.

The last three rows of stamps on this album page are in commemoration of six-hundred year anniversary of the death of St. Francis. They depict him, the Basillica of St. Francis and San Damiano Church and Convent, both in Assisi, Italy.

Note

On this album page, I have all of the stamps – all unused. It took quite a while to get to this point. For the set of St. Francis stamps, I had some of them and had to find a dealer selling them individually – rather than buy a complete set and discard the duplicate ones. For the top two sets of the king in uniform, it just took time to find the sets for sale at prices I could afford, and to wait until I have the cash to buy them. So now it’s complete and that makes me feel good. Soon the pages around it will be complete and I will then have several complete pages in sequence, which is even nicer.

Contains 14 spots: own 14 – 14 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

Royal Jubilee - Parmeggiani

1.1	✓	186	Vittorio Emanuele III	60c (jun 1925) comm., red
1.2	✓	187	Vittorio Emanuele III	1₤ (jun 1925) comm., sky blue
1.3	✓	188	Vittorio Emanuele III	1.25₤ (jan 1926) comm., dark blue
2.1	✓	189	Vittorio Emanuele III	60c (jun 1925) comm., red
2.2	✓	190	Vittorio Emanuele III	1₤ (jun 1925) comm., sky blue
2.3	✓	191	Vittorio Emanuele III	1.25₤ (jun 1925) comm., dark blue

St. Francis of Assisi

3.1	✓	192	St. Francis	20c (jan 1926) comm., green
3.2	✓	194	San Damiano Church	40c (jan 1926) comm., purple
3.3	✓	195	St Francis Basilica	60c (jan 1926) comm., red
4.1	✓	198	St. Francis	30c (jan 1926) comm., grey
4.2	✓	197	St. Francis	5+2.50₤ (jan 1-30) semi-postal, sepia
4.3	✓	193	St. Francis	30c (jan 1926) comm., grey
5.1	✓	196	St. Francis’ Death	1.25₤ (jan 1926) comm., sky blue
5.2	✓	199	St. Francis’ Death	1.25₤ (jan 1926) comm., sky blue

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.