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1863 - 15c blue light, two copies, and Sardinia 5c dull green, two copies, disposed in "flag" shape from "MILANO 3 MAR 63" to Lyon. Rare use to abroad (non taxed) in the three days in which the 15c type Sardinia was not valid. Sign. Raybaudi and Cert. E.D
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1863 - 15c blue lithographic 1st type, with lower block partly missing. Extremely rare, Cert. Bottacchi and E.Diena (Sassone 12e - € -)
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1863 - 15c blue lithographic 1st type, strip of four upper sheet margin, from "BURGIO 9 APR 63" to Palermo. Sign. Russo and A.Diena, Cert. E.Diena and Manzoni (Sassone 12+pt.9 - € 6.900+)
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1863 - 15c blue lithographic 2nd type, block of four canceled "LIVORNO 15 AGO 63". Rare. Cert. A.Diena, Gazzi and Sorani (Sassone 13 - € 32.500)
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1863 - 15c blue, lithographic 1st type with completely closed "C", and Sardinia 5c green dark, vertical pair, from "MARCARIA 28 MAG 63" to Mantova. Initials E.Diena (Sassone 13D+Sard.12C - € 1.520)
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1863 - 15c lithographic 2nd type with light double printing at the bottom, in mixed franking with Sardinia 5c green and 40c pink vermilion on registered letter from "FIRENZE 15 GIU 63" to Bologna. Extremely fine tri-color franking with the 15c lithographic 2nd type. Cert. Bottacchi (13+Sard. 13Ea+16F - Zanaria-Serra € 6.500)
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1863 - 1c light greysh green, DLR London printing, MNH and well centered. Cert. Bottacchi (Sassone L14 - € 1.600)
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1863 - 1c green grey and Sardinia 1c grey black on piece from "MILANO 31 DIC 63". Rare mixed ""twin values" franking in the last day of validity of the Sardinian stamps. Sign. Emilio Diena and Cert. E.Diena (Sassone L14+Sard19 - Zanaria Serra (2004) € 3.5
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1866 - 2c brown red, strip of four and single copy, with 10c ochre orange, all DLR London printing canceled dotted numeral "1805" from "PORTO SAN GIORGIO MARCHE 21 AGO 66" to Macerata. Sign. E.Diena (Sassone L15+L17 - € 4.230)
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1863 - 5c grey green, DLR London printing, well centered and very fresh, OG with small hinge trace. Cert. E.Diena and Giulio Bolaffi (Sassone L16 - € 8.500)
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1863 - 10c ochre orange DLR London printing, block of four with two copies MNH. Fair centering, very fine. Cert. G.Bolaffi and A.Diena (Sassone L17 - € 32.500+ as loose stamps)
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1863 - 15c sky blue light, excellent centering. Sign. Fiecchi, Cert. Manzoni (Sassone L18 - € 10.000)
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1863 - 15c blue sky blue DLR London printing, block of four left sheet margin, MNH, Fair centering. Cert. A.Diena and G.Bolaffi (Sassone L18 - € 38.000+ as loose stamps)
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1863 - 15c blue sky blue block of three from "TORINO 15 NOV 64" to Bologna. Cert. E.Diena (Sassone L18b - € -)
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1863 - 15c sky blue light, six copies, from "NAPOLI 26 LUG, 64" to Lione. Very rare. Cert. Sorani (Sassone L18 - € 28.000:2 = € 14.000)
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1864 - Austria 4th issue 3kr green, two copies, and 15kr brown, all perf.14 from "TRIEST 12/4" to Genova. From here forwarded to Messina with a 15c light sky blue, DLR London printing, canceled "GENOVA 14 APR 64". Cert. Serra and E.Diena (Sassone L18 - € -)
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1863 - 1c grey black (with a meaningless and very light archival crease), 2c grey black, two copies, 5c grey green and 30c brown (both DLR London printing) from "MESSINA 25 DIC 63" to Lyon. Mixed four values franking to compose a 40c rate, published at pa
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1863 - 30c dark brown, DLR London printing, unperforated, MNH. Classic variety, only a handful known. Cert. Serra, E.Diena, Sorani and Bottacchi (Sassone L19c - € 90.000)
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1863 - 30c dark brown, DLR London printing, unperforated, and 20c on 15c blue, "horseshoe" overprint 2nd type, canceled dotted numeral "134" on "RACCOMANDATO" from "RIMINI 2 NOV 66" to Bologna. The 30c is perfect, the 20 on 15c has a cut, probably due to
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1863 - 10c bistre, 30c brown and 40c pink, all DLR London printing, in tri-color franking from "PEROSA 9 APR 64" to The Netherlands. Letter with excess franking as it was probably considered it would have been routed via Switzerland. Very interesting combination, unrecorded in the update of the Zanaria-Serra catalog of 1997. Cert. E.Diena (Sassone L17+L19+L20 - € -)
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