Postage Due

These stamps were used when mail was sent without enough postage. If someone handed in an envelop at the post office, of course, they wouldn’t accept it without the correct postage. However, if someone put an envelop in a public mail box, rather than return the envelop to the sender, the postal workers would put postage due stamps for the deficient amount and deliver it, expecting the recipient to pay the cost of them. If they didn’t pay, only then would the envelop be returned to the sender.

Postage due stamps are almost always very plain, perhaps because their use was not encouraged. These stamps without the overprint at nice. They’re from previous issues of regular stamps. With the ones on this page, though, the stamp is too obscure to appreciate. You can see them better on the Venetian Navy page.

Note

Like the stamps on the First Anniversary page, these stamps were bought individually from the same dealer. Again, I wish I could have found the complete set, instead. However, they’re a little pricey. So I may have to settle for buying them one or two at a time until I can accumulate them all.

Contains 15 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed Dec 3, 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

Thin Valore Globale Overprint

1.1	✓	S15	Capitoline	0.02₤ (apr 1921) postage due, grey
1.2		S16	Capitoline	0.04c (apr 1921) postage due, red
1.3		S18	Capitoline	0.06c (apr 1921) postage due, orange

Valore Globale Overprint - Type I

1.4

S19

Capitoline

0.10c (apr 1921)
postage due, orange

Thin Valore Globale Overprint

2.1

✓

S17

Dr. Antonio Grossich

0.05₤ (apr 1921)
postage due, light blue

Bold Valore Globale Overprint - Type I

2.2

S27

Dr. Antonio Grossich

0.05₤ (apr 1921)
postage due, light blue

Valore Globale Overprint - Type I

3.1	✓	S20	Sailing Ship	0.20c (apr 1921) postage due, olive
3.2	✓	S21	Sailing Ship	0.30c (apr 1921) postage due, slate
3.3	✓	S22	Sailing Ship	0.40c (apr 1921) postage due, light violet
4.1	✓	S23	Sailing Ship	0.50₤ (apr 1921) postage due, light violet
4.2		S24	Sailing Ship	0.60c (apr 1921) postage due, olive

Bold Valore Globale Overprint - Type III

4.3

S25

Sailing Ship

0.80c (apr 1921)
postage due, olive

Bold Valore Globale Overprint - Type I

5.1	✓	S28	Capitoline	0.06c (apr 1921) postage due, orange
5.2	✓	S26	Proclamation Flag	1₤ (apr 1921) postage due, red brown
5.3		S29	Capitoline	0.10c (apr 1921) postage due, orange

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.