Postage Stamps of Italian Post Offices in the Levant

by Tony Clayton

General Issues

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The first stamps for use in overseas Italian Post Offices used modified Italian stamps overprinted ESTERO. The modification consisted of blanking out parts of the design in the corners, and rare varieties do occur where this was either not done on any corner, or not done on one or two corners. In some cases the modification was incomplete, as in the example below.

First issue. 1 centesimi The right hand stamp has two dots in the bottom right-hand corner instead of one Sassone 1 and 1c.

First issue. 40 and 60 centesimi Sassone 7 and 8.

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v3 23rd February 2010