Parcel Post

There are the same stamps that were used for packages by the Kingdom (see Parcel Post), except that they were overprinted with the text, Rep. Soc. Italiana – which is Repubblica Sociale Italiana (i.e., Italian Socialist Republic), abbreviated. I seem to remember that stamps at this time were printed in Torino, which is in the north and would have been part of the RSI territory. That would make it easy for them to print new stamps and overprint them. But what were they doing in the Kingdom? At some point printing was moved to Rome, but how did they get plates? Maybe they were previous printing in both cities and had already duplicated the plates.

Note

Having completed so many pages in the first album, I’m now able to give more attention and resources to this album. I bought recently several of these parcel post stamp pairs – the cheaper ones. I have more than half of this paged filled now. The ones that remain, though, aren’t as easy to find and are a little expensive. So, it’ll be a while before I complete this page.

Contains 13 spots: own 10 – 10 unused, 0 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed Apr 16, 2024

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

Parcel Post Pairs

1.1	✓	PP36	Parcel Post Pair	5c (1944) parcel post, brown
2.1	✓	PP37	Parcel Post Pair	10c (1944) parcel post, light blue
2.2	✓	PP38	Parcel Post Pair	25c (1944) parcel post, carmine rose
3.1	✓	PP39	Parcel Post Pair	30c (1944) parcel post, light blue
3.2	✓	PP40	Parcel Post Pair	50c (1944) parcel post, orange
3.3	✓	PP41	Parcel Post Pair	60c (1944) parcel post, red
4.1	✓	PP42	Parcel Post Pair	1₤ (1944) parcel post, bright violet
4.2		PP43	Parcel Post Pair	2₤ (1944) parcel post, green	longobardi (€ 370) only 1 stamp.
4.3		PP44	Parcel Post Pair	3₤ (1944) parcel post, yellow brown
5.1	✓	PP45	Parcel Post Pair	4₤ (1944) parcel post, grey
5.2	✓	PP46	Parcel Post Pair	10₤ (1944) parcel post, lilac
5.3		PP47	Parcel Post Pair	20₤ (1944) parcel post, lilac

Private Delivery

6.1

✓

RA4

Savoy Coat of Arms

20₤ (1944)
pvt. del., dark brown

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.