Italy And Colonies

Are there any Italy and Colonies collectors out there?

Welcome to Stamp Community Forum, Mike100!

Well, I collect worldwide, so yes I collect Italy and Colonies. However, I am not a specialist in that area.

Feel free to post pics of your collection when you have time!

k

Mike, Yes...i have a pretty good representatiion of Italy and colonies 1930 to 1952 or so..the era that interests me..welcome by the way !

I collect Italy! I have not gotten into the colonies. Much like France, I will focus on them once I have amanged to get as many stamps for the main country first that I can on my budget.

Welcome Mike100

I also collect Classic WW, so naturally Italy and Colonies are of interest.

Yes, welcome. I'm in the same camp as the other responses so far...classic-era, world wide, so Italy and early colonies are of interest to me. Saseno, Castellorizo, Oltre Giuba... Almost makes me forget about the British Commonwealth...almost.

I'd encourage you to spend a few minutes figuring out how to post scans...it opens up the forum experience faster than anything else. And everyone likes looking at stamps.

k

Welcome to the forum Mike

Just keep asking questions, no matter how mundane they might seem to you because you don't learn if you don't ask.

This forum firmly believes that there aren't any dumb questions <G>

Chimo

Bujutsu

A couple of reminders about scanning a single stamp:
1. DO make the scan area as small as possible, say, 2x2 inches.
2. DON'T use the entire scanner glass, then crop away tons of blank space; this definitely leads to inferior results.
3. Forget about cellphone photos.

2 SCF you will enjoy the learning experience , many of us collect worldwide and some are becoming worldwide ,some collect strange things but the collections are some of the best on the planet. You have to have a passion for stamps that's the #1 criteria and everything else is secondary. So welcome aboard.

yes Italy and colonies just post something

Yes, but only the bits that they and Yugoslavia kept fighting over: Trieste, Venezia Giulia, Fiume and the Kvarner, Italian Occupation of Montenegro, Slovenia and Croatia - oh, and for slightly different reasons, Italian POs in Scutari.










Italian PoW camp on Rab (Arbe)

Just realised there weren't many actual stamps in my first selection
So just to prove I've got a few, even though it's covers that are REALLY sexy...

Istria and Dalmatia


Italian occupation of Slovenia


Italian occupation of Dalmatia


Italian occupation of Monrenegro


Yugoslav Partisan overprints on captured Italian stock



US/UK administration of Venezia Giulia


Unofficial propaganda stamp by pro-Italian groups in Trieste/Istria


US/UK administration of Trieste

I truly wish the Trentino overprints of my Mothers place of birth were not so pricey and subject to counterfeiting !!

Really some nice specialized material here.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Here is an Italy-Offices in Constantinople (Costantinopoli) with a Credit Lyonnais "CL" perfin (and atrocious centering).





[edit: That's what posting on a small screen gets you. Doh!]

I have never seen 'Constantinopel' spelled without the 'n'. Is this an error?