Calimno

The island of Calimno, called currently Kalymnos, is located in the southeastern part of the Aegian Sea. It’s part of the Dodecanese islands that were an Italian colony from about 1912 until 1947. These stamps are Italian stamps overprinted first with Calimno, later with Calino for use only on this island.

It’s a small island known for sponge diving and rock climbing. Over the past decade or so, the population has depleted from about 24,000 to 16,000 people. Incidentally, the American sports anouncer, Bob Costas is a decendent of Kalymnos.

Note

There aren’t many stamps for each Dodecanese island: a batch of some definitives and two commemorative sets – one depicting Ferrucci; another Garibaldi. They’re contained snugly in two album pages. Since the stamps for these island are all the same, except that each island has its own name printed on the stamps, I’ve put the scans of the two album pages for each island on one web page.

Calimno Definitives (CA-1)

spot	own	catalog	subject	description	comment
1.1	✓	1	Coat of Arms	2c (dec 1912) definitive, orange brown

Leoni Design

2.1	✓	2	Vittorio Emanuele III	5c (dec 1912) definitive, green
2.2	✓	3	Vittorio Emanuele III	10c (dec 1912) definitive, red
2.3	✓	10	Vittorio Emanuele III	15c (dec 1912) definitive, slate gray

Cellini Design

3.1	✓	4	Vittorio Emanuele III	15c (dec 1912) definitive, slate
3.2	✓	8	Vittorio Emanuele III	20c (jan 1916) definitive, slate gray
3.3	✓	11	Vittorio Emanuele III With Crown Watermark	20c (jan 1919) definitive, brown orange
3.4	✓	9	Vittorio Emanuele III Without Watermark	20c (jun 1917) definitive, brown orange
4.1	✓	5	Vittorio Emanuele III	25c (dec 1912) definitive, blue
4.2	✓	6	Vittorio Emanuele III	40c (dec 1912) definitive, brown
4.3	✓	7	Vittorio Emanuele III	50c (dec 1912) definitive, light violet

Contains 11 spots: own 11 – 11 unused, 0 used.
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Album or Web Page Last changed Apr 6, 2024

Calimno Commemoratives (CA-2)

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Francesco Ferruccio

1.1	✓	12	Siege of Volterra	20c (oct 1930) definitive, violet
1.2	✓	13	Maramaldo Kills Ferrucci	25c (oct 1930) definitive, green
2.1	✓	14	Maramaldo Kills Ferrucci	50c (oct 1930) definitive, black
2.2	✓	15	Maramaldo Kills Ferrucci	1.25₤ (oct 1930) definitive, sky blue

Francesco Ferruccio - Semi-Postal

2.3

✓

16

Francesco Ferrucci

5+2₤ (oct 1930)
definitive, carmine

Giuseppe Garibaldi

3.1	✓	17	Garibaldi’s Birthplace: Nice	10c (aug 1932) definitive, brown
3.2	✓	18	Garibaldi & Vittorio Emanuele II	20c (aug 1932) definitive, brown red
3.3	✓	19	Garibaldi & Nino Bixio	25c (aug 1932) definitive, green
4.1	✓	20	Garibaldi & Vittorio Emanuele II	30c (aug 1932) definitive, grey blue
4.2	✓	21	Garibaldi & Nino Bixio	50c (aug 1932) definitive, violet
4.3	✓	22	Death of Anita Garibaldi	75c (aug 1932) definitive, red
5.1	✓	23	Garibaldi’s Tomb: Caprera	1.25₤ (aug 1932) definitive, blue

Garibaldi - Semi-Postal

5.2	✓	25	Garibaldi Monument: Rome	2.55+0.50₤ (aug 1932) definitive, pink vermilion
5.3	✓	26	Garibaldi’s Birthplace: Nice	5+1₤ (aug 1932) definitive, violet
6.1	✓	24	Quarto Rock	1.75+0.25₤ (aug 1932) definitive, brown

Contains 15 spots: own 15 – 15 unused, 0 used.
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Album or Web Page Last changed Apr 16, 2024

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.
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