Rodi Definitives
Rodi, called in English, Rhodes, is a large island located in the Aegian Sea, a few miles west of Turkey. It’s the largest islands of the Dodecanese islands, and one of the largests in the Mediterrean Sea. It has a population of about one-hundred twenty-five thousand people.
Rodi was an Italian colony from about 1912, when it was taken from Turkey, until 1947, when it became part of Greece. These are Italian stamps were overprinted with Rodi because they were used only on this island.
Note
These stamps are for the island of Rhodes, which is part of the Dodecanese Islands. But in a sense, it’s separate from them. The word, dodecanese means twelve islands – which makes it redundant to call them the dodecanese islands. Of course, the dodecanese consists of fifteen moderate to large islands and one-hundred fifty small islands. So it’s a misnomer or a miscount any way you look at it. Still, for Italy and the Italian stamps, there were twelve islands: Calimno, Caso, Cos, Karki, Leros, Lipso, Nisiros, Patmos, Piscopi, Scarpanto, Simi, and Stampalia.
The island of Rodi makes thirteen. First, I posted the Rodi pages under Aegian Islands, but not in the Dodecanese sub-section. Now I have the Rodi pages included with the Docecanese, but list first as the big brother of them. I’m still undecided as to where I should put them.
Contains 14 spots: own 14 – 14 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Apr 6, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
1 |
2c (dec 1912) |
Leoni Design
✓ |
2 |
5c (dec 1912) |
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✓ |
3 |
10c (dec 1912) |
|||
✓ |
11 |
15c (jan 1919) |
Cellini Design
✓ |
4 |
15c (dec 1912) |
|||
✓ |
8 |
20c (jan 1916) |
|||
✓ |
12 |
Vittorio Emanuele III |
20c (jan 1919) |
||
✓ |
10 |
Vittorio Emanuele III |
20c (jun 1917) |
||
✓ |
5 |
25c (dec 1912) |
|||
✓ |
6 |
40c (dec 1912) |
|||
✓ |
7 |
50c (dec 1912) |
|||
✓ |
13 |
85c (jan 1922) |
Michetti Design
✓ |
9 |
20c (jan 1916) |
|||
✓ |
14 |
1₤ (jan 1922) |
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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