Valor 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 page is complete. The layout is good, including the size of the boxes for the stamps. I did pretty good creating this page. However, I’m not very good at cutting the plastic mounts for them. I think I need a better cutter, but I haven’t found one. Maybe I’ve seen better ones on-line, but it’s hard to tell the quality from a photograph alone. I wish I could buy pre-cut ones that fit precisely. The best I can do is pre-cut mounts that are close to the size I want, requiring only one cut and not two to fit.

Contains 9 spots: own 9 – 9 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Jan 22, 2024

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	✓	A38	Dirigible Balloon	25c (jan 1935) air mail, green
1.2	✓	A39	Torpedo Boats	50c (jan 1935) air mail, black brown
2.1	✓	A40	Torpedo Boats	75c (jan 1935) air mail, pink
2.2	✓	A41	Dirigible Balloon	80c (jan 1935) air mail, sepia

Semi-Postal Air Mail

3.1	✓	A42	Colonial Troops	1+0.50₤ (jan 1935) air mail, dark green
3.2	✓	A43	Aviation in Libya	2+1₤ (jan 1935) air mail, dark blue
3.3	✓	A44	Unknown Soldier Monument	3+2₤ (jan 1935) air mail, violet
4.1	✓	A45	Arch of Constantine	2+1.25₤ (jan 1935) air mail, blue
4.2	✓	A46	Arch of Constantine	4.50+2₤ (jan 1935) air mail, green

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.