Saseno
Saseno was an uninhabited island at the sea boarder the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea. It’s now known as Sazan and is part of Albanian. But starting in October 1914, during World War I, Italy’s military took it and occupied it. In April 1915, under the Treaty of London, it became somewhat unofficially part of the Kingdom of Italy. After World War I, in September 1920, Albania officially gave it to Italy.
The stamps on this album page were used in Saseno from 1923 until Italy gave it back to Albania in 1947. For that short time, Italy has located some Italian fishermen and their families to the island to begin to make it their own. I imagine some of those descendants are still there.
The image of the king on the stamps in the second and third row, were designed by the artist, Francesco Paolo Michetti. As a result, any stamp using this image are referred to as a Michetti. This gave the stamps are more modern look, compared to the previous 19th century style, as you see in the one by itself on the first row. This new image will be used many times, with a similar one by Michetti with the image of the king facing to his right instead of his left.
Although I like very much the old style of the stamps from the 19th century, I do like the look of the Michetti stamps. It was a good choice at the time for the new century. What I don’t like is the old style of the ones on the last row here. That’s done by a designer named, Leoni. It looks like a statue head made from a woodcarving made from a grainy wood, maybe oak.
Note
As you can see, I have all of the stamps for Saseno. There are a few other occupied territories that had less than twenty stamps issued – or overprinted with their name on them. When I’m able to find those stamps or at least several of them, I’ll create the album pages for them and publish them on this site.
Contains 8 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Dec 11, 2023
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 |
Leoni Design
✓ |
SAS 1 |
10c (apr 1923) |
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✓ |
SAS 2 |
15c (apr 1923) |
Michetti Design
✓ |
SAS 3 |
20c (apr 1923) |
|||
✓ |
SAS 4 |
25c (apr 1923) |
|||
✓ |
SAS 5 |
40c (apr 1923) |
|||
✓ |
SAS 6 |
50c (apr 1923) |
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✓ |
SAS 7 |
65c (apr 1923) |
Cellini Design
✓ |
SAS 8 |
1₤ (apr 1923) |
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.
