Italy.
I have a collection of the definitive issue "Italy at work" (Italia lavore).
From this is here a letter to a blind person written in braille. I don,t know it I have turned the letter upside down or not. :O) Can anyone read it.
The rate is very low and is a scarce type of sending.
UPU postal identity card from 1955.
Pneumatic cover sent locally in Neaple from 1955.
Complete newspaper sent as printed matter 1950.
I is for ink records. De La Rue kept a record of the inks used for each stamp they printed. Below is their ink record for the 1904 five penny Arms of Jamaica stamp. It shows that the vignette was printed in "double fig black" and the frame was printed in "cadmium yellow". Dummy stamps were affixed to the record to show the approximate colors.
The actual stamp appears below:
Use of this stamp on cover shows that I is also for Isthmian Canal Commission. The cover below dated December 19, 1905 was sent from Myrtle Bank, Jamaica to Massachussetts and is franked with a 5 penny Arms pair plus a 2½ penny single to pay five times the half-ounce rate. The sender, W.J. Karmer, was employed by the Isthmian Canal Commission to recruit laborers for construction of the Panama Canal. He experimented with laborers from various West Indies islands before determining that those from Barbados were the most efficient (his words). He probably sent the cover to his wife while staying at the Myrtle Bank Hotel recruiting Jamaican laborers. The franking implies that the cover contained either a long multi page letter or photos.
I is for Italy. In 1933 GenItalo Balbo led a squadron of 20 sea planes on a Trans-Atlantic flight from Rome to Chicago USA.. 2 issues (Scott C48 and C49) were made to commemorate the flight. Each consisted of an attached registered air express label (at left), a stamp of King Emmanuel (center) and a second postage stamp at right either bearing an allegory of flight (C49), or depiction of the Roman Colosseum and the Chicago skyline (C49). An overprint of one of the 20 pilots names was applied to the Air express label of each strip. Making 20 different types of each stamp for a total of 40. Collecting all of them can be quite a challenge as they are rather scarce.
I won the C49 at an auction last week, it was one of the very few Italian stamps that I was still missing. I think it is quite a special issue and am very happy to have scratched it off the list.
I is for India.
Lugage label for a heavy parcel sent to Australia 1928.
First this was a nice find - a double overprint - but as my specialized India catalog say: "Other overprint and errors than mentioned is of clandestine origin".
You can't allway win. 😞
I is for Iceland.
Lugage label from Keflavik Airport to USA 1949.
Registered Air Mail cover from Siglufjördur to USA 1952. The US mail would be sure to "collect 10 cents" - 3 cancels!
Cover from Iceland to Denmark which, as it was damaged during transport, was placed in a plastic envelope from the Danish mail with the insciption in Danish and French: "In here a sending, which unfortunately was damaged during transport".
This kind of envelope is in Denmark nicknamed an "ambulance". O)
Iceland have more time had inflation.
This part of a packetcard show how one have to use high value stamps as normal stamps due to inflation.
Later Iceland revalued it's currency so 100 IKr. = 1IKr.
I for India.
First 3 oops.
Dry print.
Another dry print.
And last - another partly dry print.
Then to something different.
Telegram form 1925 - front.
Back.
Telegram cover 1932.
I for Ireland.
Folded free frank letter from Dublin Castle 1806.
Can anyone read the name at bottom left?
Seal on back.
Dublin Castle was until 1922 the seat of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland rule in Ireland, and is now a major Irish government complex. Most of it dates from the 18th century, though a castle has stood on the site since the days of King John, the first Lord of Ireland. The Castle served as the seat of English, then later British government of Ireland under the Lordship of Ireland, the Kingdom of Ireland, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. After the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, the complex was ceremonially handed over to the newly formed Provisional Government of Southern Ireland.
(Wikipedia)
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