Fiumano Kupa

Prior to World War II, Italy had occupied Fiume, the port city (see Fiume), but not the inland parts of the Fiume region. Instead, Yugoslavia controlled that territory since 1924. It was known at Fiumano Kupa – but I can’t find anything to verify that name.

During the war, the Axis powers, which included Germany and Italy, conquered Yugoslavia in 1941. Italy seized the opportunity and took Fiumano Kupa. It was occupied by Italy for a few years. When Italy surrendered to Allied Forces in September 1943, though, Germany then took control of Fiume and Fiumano Kupa, ending Italy’s occupation of the region.

The top set of stamps are part of an imperial issue of definitives that the Fascists ordered from the Italian post office. They were meant to remind the public that the peninsula of Italy was at one time the home base of an empire and therefore it’s acceptable and natural for them to take foreign lands to build a new empire. They also reminded the public of who was the king.

The last two stamps at the bottom of this page were issued for express mail service in Fiumano Kupa.

Note

This is a new sub-album. I’ve only recently created the album pages for it. I didn’t have any of the few stamps, but found a few from dealers around Italy. So far I have none for this page: I hate having a blank page, especially the first page of an album or a sub-album.

I’ve seen a few of the remaining stamps for sale on-line, but they were absurdly expensive – thousands of euros each. Hopefully, I’ll find some lesser quality ones for affordable prices.

Contains 14 spots: own 0 – 0 unused, 0 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed Nov 19, 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

Overprint Fiumano Kupa

1.1	1	Peter II of Yugoslavia	0.25d (may 1941) definitive, brown black
1.2	2	Peter II of Yugoslavia	0.50d (may 1941) definitive, orange
1.3	3	Peter II of Yugoslavia	1d (may 1941) definitive, green
1.4	4	Peter II of Yugoslavia	1.50d (may 1941) definitive, red
2.1	5	Peter II of Yugoslavia	3d (may 1941) definitive, lilac brown
2.2	6	Peter II of Yugoslavia	4d (may 1941) definitive, ultramarine
3.1	7	Peter II of Yugoslavia	5d (may 1941) definitive, dark blue
3.2	8	Peter II of Yugoslavia	5.50d (may 1941) definitive, dark brown violet
3.3	9	Peter II of Yugoslavia	6d (may 1941) definitive, dark blue
3.4	10	Peter II of Yugoslavia	8d (may 1941) definitive, dark brown
4.1	11	Peter II of Yugoslavia	12d (may 1941) definitive, violet
4.2	12	Peter II of Yugoslavia	16d (may 1941) definitive, dark violet brown
4.3	13	Peter II of Yugoslavia	20d (may 1941) definitive, light blue
4.4	14	Peter II of Yugoslavia	30d (may 1941) definitive, lilac 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.

remaining stamps & stories in sub-album

page	story	note	need

Main Page	✓	✓	14
Maternity & Infancy	✓	✓	11
Imperialism	✓	✓	12
Hitler & Mussolini	✓	✓	5