Postage Due

In 1934, the Italian post office produced a new post-due stamp design: see the Postage Due page in the Kingdom album. Some of those stamps had fasces on them, the Fascist Party symbol – the ones with the crest, not the coat-of-arms. Rather than make a new design, in 1945 after the Fascists were removed from power, they reprinted them but with the coat-of-arms image on each denomination. They also changed the perforation, slightly.

There was one other change. The old ones have a watermark in the shape of crown. The new postage due stamps have a watermark with a wheel and Mercury the messenger wing attached. They were issued in December 1945. Maybe they were predicting the end of the monarchy, which occured in the following May.

Note

This page is the last of this stamp album – or it was until I added the next two pages, which were in an album by themselves. This page, though, is complete with unused stamps. Previously, it was nice to end with a full, clean page like this. But now that I added two more pages to this album, it’s ending with an empty page.

Contains 24 spots: own 24 – 24 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
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.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Postage Due

1.1	✓	S73	Savoy Coat of Arms	5c (1945) postage due, brown
1.2	✓	S74	Savoy Coat of Arms	10c (apr 1945) postage due, sky blue
1.3	✓	S75	Savoy Coat of Arms	20c (apr 1945) postage due, carmine
1.4	✓	S76	Savoy Coat of Arms	25c (apr 1945) postage due, green
2.1	✓	S77	Savoy Coat of Arms	30c (apr 1945) postage due, orange
2.2	✓	S78	Savoy Coat of Arms	40c (apr 1945) postage due, grey
2.3	✓	S79	Savoy Coat of Arms	50c (apr 1945) postage due, purple
2.4	✓	S80	Savoy Coat of Arms	60c (apr 1945) postage due, sky blue
3.1	✓	S81	Savoy Coat of Arms	1₤ (apr 1945) postage due, orange
3.2	✓	S82	Savoy Coat of Arms	2₤ (apr 1945) postage due, green
3.3	✓	S83	Savoy Coat of Arms	5₤ (apr 1945) postage due, purple
3.4	✓	S84	Savoy Coat of Arms	10₤ (apr 1945) postage due, sky blue
3.5	✓	S85	Savoy Coat of Arms	20₤ (apr 1945) postage due, red

Postage Due: Watermarked

4.1	✓	S86	Savoy Coat of Arms	10c (aug 1945) postage due, sky blue
4.2	✓	S87	Savoy Coat of Arms	25c (aug 1945) postage due, green
4.3	✓	S88	Savoy Coat of Arms	30c (aug 1945) postage due, orange
4.4	✓	S89	Savoy Coat of Arms	40c (aug 1945) postage due, grey
5.1	✓	S90	Savoy Coat of Arms	50c (aug 1945) postage due, purple
5.2	✓	S91	Savoy Coat of Arms	60c (aug 1945) postage due, sky blue
5.3	✓	S92	Savoy Coat of Arms	1₤ (aug 1945) postage due, orange
5.4	✓	S93	Savoy Coat of Arms	2₤ (nov 1945) postage due, green
6.1	✓	S94	Savoy Coat of Arms	5₤ (aug 1945) postage due, purple
6.2	✓	S95	Savoy Coat of Arms	10₤ (dec 1945) postage due, sky blue
6.3	✓	S96	Savoy Coat of Arms	20₤ (dec 1945) postage due, carmine

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.