Definitives

The image depicted on the first two stamps, and four others on this page, are of a woman wearing a crown of turrets, towers of a fortress. Italy has been represented by this image known as Italia Turrita.

The towers may represented the walled cities of which Italy is composed – not necessarily united under one nation, but brought together in the spirit of the peninsula and its islands. It’s a symbol that appears on many stamps, and previously for hundreds of years on coins, in paintings and on medals of honor and family crests.

Note

For a while, this page was missing only two stamps: the second and third stamps on the second row. One of them, the one of Julius Caesar, is very similar to two others on this page: all three are purple and have a face value of one lira. The one at the end of the first row has very small fasces in the bottom left and right corners, by the face amounts, while the other two don’t. The first one on the bottom row is identical to the one I had been missing, except that it doesn’t have a watermark. The one I was missing, but I now have, has a watermark on the reverse. It’s little things like this that distinguish one stamp from another and sometimes make it rarer and more expensive for collectors.

Contains 17 spots: own 17 – 17 unused, 0 used.
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Album or Web Page Last changed Jul 17, 2025

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.

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Definitives with Fasces

1.1	✓	526	Italia Turreted With Fasces; Novara	15c (may 1945) definitive, green
1.2	✓	527	Italia Turreted With Fasces; Novara	35c (may 1945) definitive, sky blue
1.3	✓	528	Julius Caesar With Fasces; Novara	1₤ (may 1945) definitive, purple

Definitives without Fasces

2.1	✓	529	Julius Caesar Without Fasces; Rome	20c (jun 1945) definitive, carmine
2.2	✓	521	Vittorio Emanuele III Without Fasces; Rome	60c (apr 1945) definitive, green
2.3	✓	522	Julius Caesar Without Fasces; Rome	1₤ (dec 1944) definitive, violet
2.4	✓	532	Italia Turreted Without Fasces; Rome	1.20₤ (aug 1945) definitive, sepia
3.1	✓	533	Italia Turreted Without Fasces; Rome	2₤ (jun 1945) definitive, carmine
3.2	✓	534	Capitoline Wolf Without Fasces; Rome	5₤ (jun 1945) definitive, red
3.3	✓	535	Italia Turreted Without Fasces; Rome	10₤ (jun 1945) definitive, violet
4.1	✓	536	Augustus Octavia Without Fasces; Novara	10c (jul 1945) definitive, black brown
4.2	✓	537	Julius Caesar Without Fasces; Novara	20c (jul 1945) definitive, carmine
4.3	✓	538	Italia Turreted Without Fasces; Novara	50c (may 1945) definitive, purple
4.4	✓	539	Italia Turreted Without Fasces; Novara	60c (jul 1945) definitive, orange
5.1	✓	540	Julius Caesar Without Fasces; Novara	1₤ (may 1945) definitive, purple
5.2	✓	541	Italia Turreted Without Fasces; Novara	2₤ (jul 1945) definitive, carmine
5.3	✓	542	Italia Turreted Without Fasces; Novara	10₤ (mar 1946) definitive, purple

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.