Beschreibung:

Italian Area 19th and 20th Century Collection in Three Specialty Albums Useful group beginning with Italian States in singles and folded letters, regular definitives are scattered through 1930s but with some items both mint and used. Highlights include Scott B17-19, used, C12-26, hinged o.g., C35-39, mint and used, C42-47, hinged o.g., other back of the book issues are somewhat mixed. Also included are nice selections of Offices, Colonies, Revenues, Occupation of Cyrenaica including Scott 16 hinged o.g., with Bloch certificate, Ethiopia with perforated, imperforated and overprinted issues, Fiume, Ionian Islands with mint pair of NC4 signed Kessler, Trieste with many useful issues including folded letters from the 1850s, later overprinted issues, San Marino with dates from 1877 to 1990s and concluding with a nice Vatican group to the late 1990s, mixed mint and used, which is virtually complete with the exception of #35-40, C17-18 and a few lesser values. Overall a very desirable collection with most issues being Fine to Very Fine. F/VF. Estate of Dr. Jerome Lee Shneidman