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A.m.g Sicily Cover, Assistance Needed

 
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Posted 02/27/2025   12:26 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add dgwhite87 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I've got this A.M.G. cover, and the large A.C.S that is stamped twice diagonally confuses me.



What I can gather so far about this cover is:
it is from the Psychiatric Hospital of Pallermo.
it is to the president of the provisional administration
it is sent 5/20/1944

(ive opened it up and saw it was a letter of discharge for a patient and the arrival postmark was 5/23/44 in Trapani)

A.C.S kind of looks like the same color ink as the Hospedale Psichiatrico el Pallermo stamp so I'm wondering if A.C.S might be an italian medical acronym. I'm just guessing though, any help is appreciated.
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Posted 02/27/2025   04:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vayolene to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Posted 03/01/2025   01:57 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add alka2 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello,

From the Postal Manual written by the Civil Censorship Group Italy(1944) and published by the Military Postal History Society(USA):
"to denote that a piece of correspondence has passed through a Civil Censorship Group provincial censorship station but has not been opened and examined, the following stamp will be used:ACS"

https://forum.aicpm.net/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=151

The ACS stamp usually was applied at departure or in transit.

There were different shapes of ACS(Sicily):



https://www.ilpostalista.it/sirotti/sirotti02.htm

As far as I know the meaning of ACS could be either "Allied Censorship Station " or "Allied Censorship Service"
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Edited by alka2 - 03/01/2025 3:17 pm
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Posted 03/01/2025   8:05 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add dgwhite87 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
@alka2 thank you for this information! This is super helpful!
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