Sale No: 284
Lot No:1539
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1731/1815: Collection 21 covers / entire letters with transit and entry handstamps for mail coming into Sardinia or passing it, incl. early 1731 DITALIE on entire from Genova to Marseille, 1760 'DE TOSCANE', 1790 TOSCANNE, short lived 1805 ETRURIE, 1808 with "BUREAU FRANCAIS / ROME" handstamp of despatch and "ROME PAR GENES, 1809 "ETRURIE ET LUCQUES PAR SARZANE", 1812 "Raume D'ITALIE PAR TURIN" in red, and 'LM' in oval on cover from Intra to Ticino. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1540
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1804/60: Collection 56 covers / entire letters with postal treaty and accountancy handstamps beginning with French inland accountancy marks when Piemont was part of the French Republic, postal treaty marks of the Italian Republic, post-Napoleonic accountancy marks between Sardinia and France, postal treaties with the cantons of Vaud, Valais, Ticino and Geneva, Switzerland, with handstamps 'LV' applied in Vevey, oval 'CVL', and CT in circle, postal treaty with federate Switzerland incl. Rayon limitrophe handstamped covers, and finally the postal treaty with Austria. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image 16) (Image 17) (Image 18) (Image 19) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1541
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1815/60: Interesting Collection 55 covers / entire letters with transit and exchange handstamps from the post-Napoleonic period, incl. French entry handstamp of the type 'X PAR Y' with rarer marks such as "ITALIE / P. LE PONT De / BEAUVOISIN" in blue, French postal treaty handstamps such as "X / A.DE.D." or "X / AEJF", Sardinian marks of the "VIA DI X" type with "VIA DI CESANA", French accountany marks such as "C.4.F.R", 1822 "NIZZA MARITT.", 1833 "NIZZA DI MARE", 1816 French-style "DÉB.85 / VINTIMILLE" applied at Ventimiglia, 1840s "T.S." Transit Sarde for mail passing the country, SARZANA mail exchange with Tuscany, "FRANCO SARZANA" for mail part paid to the Tuscan border, "VIA DI BRONI" for mail to and from Parma, "St. JULIEN", "DOMODOSSOLA" and "AOSTA" for mail from Vaud & Valais, Switzerland, CANOBIO to Ticino, ARONA, VOGHERA and NOVARA to Lombardy, Austrian handstamps for mail from Lombardy via Sardinia such as "VIA DEGLI STATI SARDI". (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1542
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Italian Shipmail, 1829/75c: Collection 23 primarily stampless shipmail covers / entire letters incoming to Genova struck by "VIA DI MARE" handstamps at Genova, also "VIA DI MARE PONENTE" and "VIA DI MARE LEVANTE" for incoming mail from the west and east, E - Estero, A - America, I - Interno, "GENOVA / Corso particulare" on mail from non-postal steamers, "Da Marsiglia VIA DI MARE", "Da Livorno VIA DI MARE", DA NIZZA, DA SICILIA, PIROSCAFI POSTALI FRANCESI, SPEZIA, SARDEGNA, and "con Bastim. Mercant." In addition a collection of the shipmail of the Aeolian Islands incl. 1829 official letter from Lipari, five later covers up to 1940, two 1927 stationery postcards with "NATANTE MILAZZO - ISOLE EOLIE" cds's and four 1940/49 covers from and to POW camps on the Lipari islands. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image 16) (Image 17) (Image 18) (Image 19) (Image 20) (Image 21) (Image 22) (Image 23) (Image 24) (Image 25) (Image)