Identification For Vintage Italian States Sardinia

I browsed through the forum and couldn't find info for these 2 Italian Vintage stamps.

Just wish to find out the released date, Scott catalog number or Stanley gibbon number.



Thanks in Advance !

Sardinia, 1855, SG # 15 & 16

I'm no expert but both those items exhibit classic signs of the Cohn forgeries.

http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.de...5Stamps.html

Hi All ! Thank you very much for the helpful answer !

Interesting stamps.

Might you consider fixing typo in title (its either Sardinia as Cursus wrote or Sardegna), not Sardina

Not a big deal, just a suggestion meant constructively

Well, the name of the island is: "Sardinia" in English, "Sardegna" in Italian, "Sardigna" in Sardinian Language (spoken by about 75% of the island's people) and "Sardenya" in Catalan (which is spoken on the Sardinian city of l'Alguer). By the way, in my language (Catalan) "sardina", means "sardine" (the fish).

Cursus,

A tangent to the main body, but an interesting one to me, and one that I know I little about. Deu seu Tommeu -- and I speak the Sardegnan language on account of having been there more than 15 times. My best amigu friend's father, Michelango Pira, was one of the renowned professors that established the language as being distinct, and on its demise of not being used.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_Pira (in italian but you can translate via Google into Catala)

Not to quibble, but there are four dialects (including the Catalanian one near Alghero),and each spell the country/language differently. I'm not sure its 75% spoken anymore, as the language is slowly dying...but perhaps outside of the city still. But a beautiful one and I only wanted it not to be referred to as "Sardina" because as you pointed out it is not in English nor Italian nor the language itself.

And in the ancient language the island is referred to as Ichnusa (which is today a beer)

Are you from Spain?

Deu ollu mi amigu mufloni po. A si beeri.

No, I'm not from Spain. I'm a Catalan, from Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia. A small country, by now, under the Spanish boot but struggling to be free.
Thank you very much for the information on your friend's father. I've been just a couple of times in Sardinia, and I can't speak Sard (although I can guess the meaning of the words), but I read Italian. As for the language spoken in l'Alguer (Alghero in Italian) if it is "a dialect" it's from Catalan; a Latin language spoken in l'Alguer, the Balearic Islands, Southeast of France and Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula (Catalonia and Valencia Country).

You can find many facts about Catalonia on the "Barcelona and Catalonia cinderellas" thread.

See you, my friend!

Hi dear, topic changed as advised, Thanks.