1920 - Eritrea: Postage-due 2L blue and carmine overprinted at the bottom. Sign. A.Diena and Bottacchi (Sassone 22 - € 3.250+)
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1921 - Libia: Pittorica, the complete set of twelve denominations with sideways watermark. Fair centering (Sassone 21/32 - € 3.000)
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1921/40 - Libia: Pittorica 10L sideways watermark and 5L without watermark, with 2L carmine and 75c orange, on insured letter for Lire 3.000, Air Mail from "TRIPOLI POSTA ERITREA 26.8.40" to Poggio Mirteto. Rarity in this field. Initials E.Diena, Cert. Colla (Sassone 32+43+104+163 - € 7.700+)
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1924/31 - Libia: Sibilla libica perf.14, 40c brown vertical pair unperforated at the center and 7,50c black and brown red, strip of three, from "AGEDABIA (CIRENAICA) 16.5.34" to Reggio Emilia, via Air Mail. Sign. E.Diena, Cert. Colla (Sassone 41h+103 - € - )
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1940 - Libia: Pittorica 5L without watermark, four copies, with 1,25L sky blue and 2L carmine on Registered Air Mail letter from "TRIPOLI 16.5.41" to Rio de Janeiro "via Lati". Censorship marks and label on the cover. Extremely fine, rarity in this field. Sign. E.Diena, Cert. Colla (Sassone 43+105+163x4 - € 8.800+)
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1924 - Libia: Pittorica without watermark, 10c black and pale pink, vertical unperforated pair on small piece canceled "TRIPOLI D'AFRICA 22.11.25". Sign. Giulio Bolaffi, Cert. A.Diena (Sassone 47K - € 20.000++)
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1926/30 - Libia: Pittorica without watermark perf.11 linear, the complete set of eight denominations MNH. Cert. Manzoni (Sassone 58/65 - € 12.500)
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1925 - Oltregiuba: Giubileo, 1L blue perf.13 1/2 MNH. Cert. Manzoni (Sassone 22 - € 3.280)
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1923 - Saseno: the complete set of eight denominations (Sassone 1/8 - € 1.500)
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1905 - Somalia: Zanzibar overprinted 15c on 5a orange and 40c on 10a lilac, both upper sheet margin, quite well centered, MNH. Sign. Fiecchi, Cert. A.Diena (Sassone 8/9 - € 14.500+)
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1906 - Somalia: Postage-due, the complete 1st issue of eleven denominations. Very fresh and with fairly good centering. Cert. Bottacchi for two of the three high denominations, Manzoni for the third one (Sassone T1/11 - € 9.000++)
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1926 - Tripolitania: Giubileo del Re, 1,25L blue perf.11, very fresh and very well centered. Cert. Bottacchi and A.Diena (Sassone 25 - € 10.000++)
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1893/1960 - Italian Colonies: very good collection of unused stamps of the different Colonies, excluding the Aegean, missing only the extremely rare and part of the rare stamps. The Services part is only partial and includes hinged stamps. All on sheets without mounts, collected in one album. High catalog value, considered around € 44.800 for the hinged stamps, and about € 15.400 for the MNH. Great deal (Sassone beyond € 60.000)
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1946 - CORPO POLACCO: very advanced collection of stamps and miniature sheets, mainly unused, mounted on Marini sheets. Very fine quality in general (Sassone beyond € 26.000)
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1874 - Finland: 8p black on green, pair, and 40p pink on lilac from "WIBORG 16/7" to Lausanne, Switzerland. Perforation defective in some points (as normal in these issue) nonetheless very pleasant cover. Initials E.Diena (Yvert 6+9 - € 7.300++)
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1870 - France - Ballon Monté: small not franked letter, from "PARIS PL. DE LA BOURSE 1 OCT 70" to Vannes, with postmarks "P.P." black and "GARDE NATIONALE MOBILE 31 Rgt - MORBIHAN * LE COLONEL *". at the back and arrival on October 16. Very likely carried
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1870 - France - Ballon Monté: letter handwritten by Jannin on Nadar letterhead, franked with 20c blue Napoleon III with laurel, canceled in transit with lozenge "HP2" to Pornic. Arrival postmark of November 2 at the back. "Pli Confié" to the Aerostiers of
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1870 - France - Ballon Monté: newspaper "DEPECHE BALLON N.8" from "PARIS (60) 24 NOV 70" to Great Britain, without stamp, detached due to immersion in water, with boxed black "PP" on the front. Letter carried by the "Ville d'Orleans", landed in Norway due
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1871 - France - Ballon Monté: Napoleon III with laurel 30c brown on "Gazette des Absents" n.28 from "PARIS MINISTERE DES FINANCES 18 JANV. 71" to Jersey, with arrival on January 27 at the back. Letter carried by the "General Bourbaky", rare destination (Y
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1866/67 - France: archive of eight different letters franked with 20c blue "perforated Napoleon" canceled large figures numeral "2316" from Mentone to Ventimiglia, all in reduced rate for close-by towns in neighboring Countries, from France to Italy. Very interesting (Yvert 22 - € -)
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