Duchy of Parma

Napoleon gave his wife, Marie-Louise – a Habsburg – the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza. She ruled there until her death in 1847. Then it was given to the Bourbon-Parma family, who ruled the Duchy of Lucca and previously Parma and Piacenza. The Bourbons ruled until 1859, when they were overthrown in the Second War of Independence in Italy.

In December 1859, the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza was combined with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Duchy of Modena to form the United Provinces of Central Italy. In March 1860 a referendum was approved, merging it with the Kingdom of Sardegna, which became the Kingdom of Italy in 1861.

Note

The first stamp designs here show a fleur de lis, the symbol of the Bourbons. Their style look a little like a marble carving or something. I’m not sure I like them too much. I do like the simpler design that replace them in 1857, the ones on the last row here. The paper is nice and the colors of ink are very nice. Perhaps that’s why I bought the ones at the bottom first.

Contains 18 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed Dec 12, 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

Duchy

1.1		1	Bourbon Lily & Crown	5c (1852) definitive, orange yellow
1.2	✓	2	Bourbon Lily & Crown	10c (1852) definitive, white
1.3		3	Bourbon Lily & Crown	15c (1852) definitive, pink
1.4		4	Bourbon Lily & Crown	25c (1852) definitive, violet
1.5		5	Bourbon Lily & Crown	40c (1852) definitive, sky blue
2.1		6	Bourbon Lily & Crown	5c (1853) definitive, orange yellow
2.2		7	Bourbon Lily & Crown	15c (1853) definitive, vermillion
2.3		8	Bourbon Lily & Crown	25c (1853) definitive, red brown
3.1	✓	9	Crest with Bourbon Lily	15c (1857) definitive, vermillion
3.2	✓	10	Crest with Bourbon Lily	25c (1857) definitive, brown lilac
3.3		11	Crest with Bourbon Lily	40c (1857) definitive, sky blue

Provisional Government

4.1	✓	13	Text in Octagon Shield	5c (1859) definitive, yellow green
4.2	✓	14	Text in Octagon Shield	10c (1859) definitive, brown
4.3	✓	15	Text in Octagon Shield	20c (1859) definitive, blue
4.4		17	Text in Octagon Shield	40c (1859) definitive, vermillion
4.5		18	Text in Octagon Shield	80c (1859) definitive, olive bistro

Newspaper Postage Due

5.1	✓	S1	Text in Octagon Shield	6c (1857) postage due, bright pink
5.2	✓	S2	Text in Octagon Shield	9c (1853) postage due, sky blue

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.