Mothers & Children

On the middle set of stamps on this page, the stamps have text that reads, Ndihme per luftimin antituberkular, which means Assistance for the fight against tuberculosis. During the Italian occupation of Albania, the government introduced structured public health and fundraising mechanisms modeled after Italy’s anti-TB programs.

In April 1943, the occupation government issued a dedicated, mandatory surcharge series of Anti-Tuberculosis Fund stamps. This functioned as a charitable and public health tax in which the extra funds from postal services went directly toward building basic isolation wards, funding dispensaries, and providing care for poor patients.

Note

When I first set up the web page for these stamps, I thought that the woman shown in the middle set of stamps was supposed to be a mother caring for her child who has tuberculosis. I now know that she’s meant to be a nurse. I didn’t recognize the garments she was wearing as that. So I need to change the title of this page.

Contains 15 spots: own 0 – 0 unused, 0 used.

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	catalog	subject	description
1.1	E1	Vittorio Emanuele III	25q (mar 1940) express, purple
1.2	E2	Vittorio Emanuele III	50q (mar 1940) express, orange red
2.1	38	Nurse & Child Fighting Tuberculosis	5+5q (apr 1943) semi-postal, dark green
2.2	39	Nurse & Child Fighting Tuberculosis	10+10q (apr 1943) semi-postal, olive brown
2.3	40	Nurse & Child Fighting Tuberculosis	15+10q (apr 1943) semi-postal, carmine
2.4	41	Nurse & Child Fighting Tuberculosis	25+15q (apr 1943) semi-postal, dark ultramarine
3.1	42	Nurse & Child Fighting Tuberculosis	30+20q (apr 1943) semi-postal, blue violet
3.2	43	Nurse & Child Fighting Tuberculosis	50+25q (apr 1943) semi-postal, orange red
3.3	44	Nurse & Child Fighting Tuberculosis	65+30q (apr 1943) semi-postal, black
3.4	45	Nurse & Child Fighting Tuberculosis	1+0.40f (apr 1943) semi-postal, brown
4.1	S1	Coat of Arms	4q (mar 1940) postage due, orange red
4.2	S2	Coat of Arms	10q (mar 1940) postage due, purple
5.1	S3	Coat of Arms	20q (mar 1940) postage due, dark brown
5.2	S4	Coat of Arms	30q (mar 1940) postage due, dark blue
5.3	S5	Coat of Arms	50q (mar 1940) postage due, carmine

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.