Italy

The standard "Barefoot" catalogue listing the revenue stamps of Italy (all periods from States to Euro issues), Colonies incl B.O.I.C. and modern period ex-colonies, Aegean, Dalmatia, Fiume, WWII Occupations, San Marino, Trieste, Vatican.

VIAREGGIO (Postal History) (B.109)
Postal history account of the coastal town of Viareggio (near Livorno), from the Italian State of Tuscany, through to modern times. Emphasis is on the postal markings and cancels. 118 pages, in Italian, published 1979.

ITALIAN POST OFFICE IN ALEXANDRIA (B.77)
Harmers auction sale November 2009 with 40 magnificent covers from this Levant office, each illustrated in full colour. 44 pages in a single-vendor special catalogue.

ITALIAN P.O.s in CHINA (SPINK) (B.167)
Spink auction catalogue of November 2016 of a major collction of Italian Post Offices in China with many major rare items, useful catalogue for reference and provenance. In colour, 635 lots, 50 pages.

THE ROMAGNA (B.209)
by Donald S. Patton. The classic work (published by Robson Lowe), covers provisional bisects of Papal States, the stamps with distinctive signs for recognising genuine, essays and proofs, reprints, forgeries (extensive, with very detailed information, plus a handy key to essential quick recognition), postal rates, cancellations and disinfection cachets. 32 pages, illus, 1953, as new.

FORGED PRE-ADHESIVE POSTMARKS (B.210)
by Paolo Vollmeier. Describes h3e numerous forged cancels of Italian States, especially of Venice, purporting to be from about 1720 to about 1820, but actually created from thew 1930s to 1970s on stolen archive letters. Many are still in circulation. Illus, 56 pages, Postal History Society inc, New York, 1979.

AUCTION CATALOGUES (B.216)
Accumulation of 50 auction catalogues of Italian States (some from c1960 including Burrus collection and 1959 Naples/Sicily, rest mainly period 1980-2000), many major sales, mostly Robson Lowe, couple Phillips including the Alphonse Sicily collection, includes thousands and thousands of lots, many illus, superb information background for a serious collector of Italian States. Weight 9 kilos, therefore only for delivery within mainland UK (not N.Ireland or islands) (or for possible delivery overseas, please enquire for the extra cost).

POSTSTEMPEL KIRCHENSTAATES (B.271)
catalogue of the postmarks of the Papal States, by Fernando Ceccarelli, good backgrund to the postal history and well illustrated manual, text in German, 84 pages, 1927