Express Mail
All of these stamps were issued for express mail service initiated from Fiume. However, I can’t imagine they were purchased and used much. Fiume was just a small city. Regular mail and express mail probably arrived about the same time within Fiume: both delivered the same day, the next morning at the latest. In those days, post offices in cities made deliveries once a day to residential neighborhoods and a two or three times a day to business districts.
They might have used these stamps, though, for express delivery to Italy. That might be worthwhile. However, I can’t imagine they would send more than one ship a day back to Italy: especially not a fast tender only for express mail. Regular and express mail were all together on the same ships. The process became express, though, once the mail arrived somewhere in Italy – maybe in Venice. Of course, the express letters might have been sent by air plane to Rome for distribution. That might make sense since they didn’t issue any air mail stamps: But I don’t think they had an airport in Fiume. They could have used sea planes. However it went, I can’t imagine express being used very much from Fiume. If not, canceled versions of these stamps are probably worth more – especially ones attached to letters from or to significant people.
Note
These stamps are from a few different periods during the Italian occupation of Fiume. Chronologically, they belong on the previous pages, not together. But for some stamps, I prefer the back of the book style of grouping special service or special use stamps.
By accident, I have two of these stamps so far. I bouoght the set of Fiume stamps on the Regno d’Italia page from a dealer’s web site. These two weren’t listed in the set when I bought them. However, when the set arrived, I was pleased to find them included. I still need to find the other ones, but at least this page isn’t completely empty.
Contains 8 spots: own 4 – 4 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 |
Express Mail
✓ |
E01 |
30c (sep 1920) |
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✓ |
E02 |
50c (sep 1920) |
Reggenza Italiana del Carnaro Overprint
E03 |
30c (nov 1920) |
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E04 |
50c (nov 1920) |
Regno d´Italia Overprint
✓ |
E09 |
60c (feb 1924) |
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✓ |
E10 |
2₤ (feb 1924) |
Annessione All’Italia Overprint
E11 |
60c (mar 1924) |
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E12 |
2₤ (mar 1924) |
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.
