Italian Social Republic (RSI) and Luogotenenza Postal History

12/12/1944 ITALIAN SOCIAL REPUBLIC (RSI) - Registered cover at the correct rate from Rapallo (GE) to Milan, franked with 5 examples of the Parcel Post stamp (Cat. Sassone 27 x5) plus a 1 Lira of the Kingdom (Cat. Sassone 252A). Emergency franking. Very fine and uncommon - Lotto/40152 WE WELCOME OFFERS

16/8/1945 ITALY, LUOGOTENENZA (Lieutenancy) - Registered cover from Noale (VE) to Cellore di Illasi (VR) with a mixed franking of Italian Social Republic and Luogotenenza issues: a block of 4 of the 50 cent. Lupa Capitolina (Capitoline She-wolf) (Cat. Sassone 515 x4), plus the 25 cent. Fratelli Bandiera (Sassone 512), a pair of the 1 Lira Fratelli Bandiera (Sassone 513 x2), the 20 cent. Monumenti (504), the 60 cent. (539) and the 1 Lira (540 x2). Superb and rare franking. Signed A. Diena - Lotto/40317 WE WELCOME OFFERS

5/9/1945 ITALY, LUOGOTENENZA - Registered cover from Pisa No. 4 to Piombino (Livorno), franked with a block of 4 of the 50 cent. Lupa Capitolina (Cat. Sassone 515 x4) plus a pair of the 2.50 Lire (Cat. Sassone 523 x2). A superb and uncommon franking. Signed Chiavarello - Lotto/40318 WE WELCOME OFFERS

9/10/1945 ITALY, LUOGOTENENZA - Registered cover from Trani to Guastalla, franked with a 2 Lire (Cat. Sassone 533) plus a 5 Lire green Kingdom Airmail (Sassone 16). Sold at Italphil auction No. 26. A fine and uncommon franking - Lotto/40319 WE WELCOME OFFERS

7/12/1945 LUOGOTENENZA - Circular from Agira (Enna) to Ispica (Ragusa) franked with a single 1 Lira stamp of the new issue known as the Democratica. Single franking, from the first months the set was in use. Signed L. Gazzi. Uncommon - Lotto/40320 WE WELCOME OFFERS

31/12/1945 LUOGOTENENZA - Postal form for the accumulation of taxed letters, franked with a 10 Lire postage due (Cat. Sassone 84) plus a 2 Lire carmine stamp (Cat. Sassone 541) used as a postage due. Postmark "Bologna Centro corr. Pacchi Tassate 31/12/45". Uncommon - Lotto/40321 WE WELCOME OFFERS

1944 ITALIAN SOCIAL REPUBLIC (RSI) - Cover to Rovereto with a franking of twin values: 25 centesimi (Sassone 491 x2) plus Destroyed Monuments (497 x2). Signed L. Gazzi - Lotto/40461 WE WELCOME OFFERS

28/9/1944 ITALIAN SOCIAL REPUBLIC (RSI) - Registered cover from Malnate (VA) franked with a 1.75 Lire Imperiale (Cat. Sassone 254) plus a 75 centesimi overprinted (Sassone 494), the latter missed by the canceller and obliterated in pencil on arrival at Rosa (Vicenza) - Lotto/40462 WE WELCOME OFFERS

4/10/1944 ITALIAN SOCIAL REPUBLIC (RSI) - Registered cover from Rovereto Lizzanella to Rovereto, franked with a pair of the 50 centesimi overprinted (Cat. Sassone 493 x2) plus a pair of the 50 centesimi Kingdom Airmail (Cat. Sassone 11 x2). Signed L. Gazzi - Lotto/40463 WE WELCOME OFFERS

13/7/44 and 12/8/44 ITALIAN SOCIAL REPUBLIC (RSI) - An official service form from Savigliano (CN) to Groppello Cairoli (PV), franked on two different dates, probably because the first franking was insufficient: twin values of 25 centesimi Destroyed Monuments (497) and 25 centesimi green overprinted (491). A fine and uncommon franking of twin values - Lotto/40465 WE WELCOME OFFERS

25/10/1944 RSI - LAIBACH (Ljubljana) - Airmail cover to Hamburg with a mixed franking of Kingdom and Germany Reich stamps, cancelled "Deutsche Dienstpost Adria Laibach". (In north-eastern Italy the Nazis set up the Adriatic commissariat, covering the provinces of Gorizia, Udine, Trieste, Pola, Fiume and Ljubljana, and in that zone a postal service was established, as in the Alpenvorland, run entirely by the German authorities.) Fine and uncommon - Lotto/40466 WE WELCOME OFFERS

19/6/1944 ITALIAN SOCIAL REPUBLIC - 25 cent. overprinted (Cat. Sassone 491) plus a pair of 50 cent. Airmail (Sassone 11 x2), on a cover from Bologna to Switzerland (Campascio), checked by the Italian censorship and forwarded to its destination through the Munich control in Germany - Lotto/40597

23/5/1946 LUOGOTENENZA - Cover from Rasura (Sondrio, 291 inhabitants) to Campascio (Brusio) in Switzerland, franked with 12 stamps of 1.20 Lire of the Rome issue (Cat. Sassone 532 x12) plus 10 cent. (536) and 50 cent. (538). An attractive foreign franking, uncommon - Lotto/40316

23/8/1946 ITALY, LUOGOTENENZA - 50 centesimi, Novara issue (Cat. Sassone 538). A group of 20 examples on a cover, front and back, from Traona (Sondrio) to Tesserete, Switzerland. A fine and uncommon franking - Lotto/40135 WE WELCOME OFFERS

16/6/1945 ITALY, LUOGOTENENZA - 50 centesimi Lupa Capitolina (Cat. Sassone/Unificato 515), a pair on an advice of receipt form from Vallerano (Viterbo) - Lotto/40324 WE WELCOME OFFERS

20/12/1944 ITALIAN SOCIAL REPUBLIC - 30 cent. G. Mazzini postal card (Cat. Interitalia 108) with an added franking of a pair of the 10 cent. Destroyed Monuments (Cat. Sassone 503), from Comerio (VA) to Milan - Lotto/40153 WE WELCOME OFFERS

23/4/1945 ITALIAN SOCIAL REPUBLIC (RSI) - Cover franked with the complete Fratelli Bandiera set (Cat. Sassone 512/514) plus the local issue of Castiglione d'Intelvi (CO) (Cat. Sassone 14/15), cancelled Castiglione d'Intelvi, Como, with the rectangular handstamp "Collegamento Postale Castiglione Argegno Como" - Lotto/40156 WE WELCOME OFFERS

15/6/1945 ITALY LUOGOTENENZA - Cover from Verona to Milan franked with 50 cent. Italian Social Republic (Cat. 507) plus 50 cent. Luogotenenza (Cat. 517) and a 14 Lire sheet margin Lion of Saint Mark, Corrieri Alta Italia (Cat. Sassone/Unificato 3), with the Verona Borsa postmark. Superb and rare condition - Signed in full by Marcello Catania - (Cat. Sassone Euro 1,000.00++ - Unificato Euro 900.00++) - Lotto/40160 WE WELCOME OFFERS

19/7/1944 - Italian Social Republic - Stamps overprinted G.N.R., Verona printing (Cat. Sassone 470/480 + Airmail 118-121) on an unused cover of the Emporio Filatelico Fiumano with the postmarks "Fiume Corr. Pacchi 19/7/44 Ordinarie Arrivi" - very fine and uncommon - Lotto/40174 WE WELCOME OFFERS

13/4/1947 ITALY - A pair of the 50 cent. Lupa (Cat. Sassone 515 x2) plus a pair of the 50 cent. Democratica (Cat. Unificato 547 x2) on a card to Messina with the postmark "2 Giornata Filatelica Brescia 12/13 April. 1947". Signed E. Diena - Lotto/40304