E-Mail

From my experience, I’d say that email started becoming popular in the early 1980s. At least by the end of the 1980s it was widely used in Western countries like the U.S. and Italy. Email would lead to less frequent use of stamps for correspondences by businesses and the general population – eventually, they will probably no longer be issued. These stamps were issued as that era started to come about. It’s a good of a segretation of stamp album pages as any.

Note

During the last quarter of the Twentieth Century, like many other countries, Italy issued an excessive amount of stamps, more than was needed for mail service. They did so to sell stamps to collectors that would not be used – which was very profitable. Although many stamps at this time were too large for postcards and normal envelops, they seemed to have reasoned that larger stamps would be more appealing. I really don’t like stamps this size. Stamps should adhere to functionality. I also prefer less flashy stamps.

Contains 9 spots: own 9 – 9 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Sep 5, 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
1.1	✓	1575	Virgil Mosaic	600₤ (sep 1981) comm., multi-color
1.2	✓	1576	World Food Day	150₤ (oct 1981) comm., multi-color

Villas

2.1	✓	1577	Villa Campolieto: Ercolano	100₤ (oct 1981) comm., multi-color
2.2	✓	1578	Villa Cimbrone: Ravello	200₤ (oct 1981) comm., multi-color
2.3	✓	1579	Villa Pignatelli: Napoli	300₤ (oct 1981) comm., multi-color

Stamp Day

3.1	✓	1582	Railway Track Envelopes	120₤ (nov 1981) comm., multi-color
3.2	✓	1583	Caduceus: Cherub Blowing Posthorn	200₤ (nov 1981) comm., multi-color
3.3	✓	1584	Letter Seal	300₤ (nov 1981) comm., multi-color

Christmas & Holidays

4.1

✓

1580

Magi Adoration, Giovanni da Campione d’Italia

200₤ (nov 1981)
comm., multi-color

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	note	need

Main Page	✓
Niccolò Paganini	✓
Francesco Tasso	✓
Federico da Montefeltro	✓
Pope Piux XII	✓
Galilei and Archimedes	✓
Saint Ubaldo Day	✓
Raffaello Sanzio	✓
Road Accidents	✓
Glass Works	✓
Italian Derby	✓
Peasant Culture	✓
Pope Sixtus V	✓
Nature Conservation	✓
World Philatelic Expo	✓
More Philatelic Expo, Rome	✓
More Villas	✓
Amilcare Ponchielli	✓
Police Corps	✓
Sacro Monte di Varallo	✓
Andrea del Sarto	✓
Wet Lands Conservation	✓
All Villas	✓
Antonio Gramsci	✓
Giorgio de Chirico	✓
Pergola Bronze	✓
Italian Films	✓
Itala Car	✓
Post & Telegraph Ministry	✓
Chaplin & Diena	✓
Aurelio Saffi	✓
FIFA World Cup 1990	✓
Giovanni Giorgi - MKSA	✓
Giorgio Morandi	✓
San Gregorio Church	✓
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli	✓
Children’s Rights’	✓
University of Naples	✓
Jacopo da Ponte	✓
Columbus Sheets	✓
Columbus Sheets	✓
Columbus Sheets	✓
Columbus’ Life	✓
First Adhesive	✓	1