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25 centesimi blue and 300 lire lilac brown.
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50 lire red and 100 lire blue.
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The third type has watermark winged wheel Type I and perf. 14x13¼ line.
The fourth type has watermark winged wheel type III sideways and perf. 13¼ comb.
200 lire green and 500 lire dark brown.
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A range of values in the same design as the 1946 issue was first issued with a stars watermark in 1955. There are three different types of stars watermark used: Type I with sharp clear stars aligned horizontally; Type II with slightly less clear stars aligned at an angle; Type IV is as Type I but the stars are much less sharp.
Type III is similar to Type II, with some stars less well aligned, and was only used for the two high values as shown below.
1000 lire ultramarine and 2000 lire brown and red.
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1000 lire ultramarine.
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2000 lire brown and red.
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20 lire brown lilac.
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In the normal course of events parcel stamps are placed over the boundary between the parcel card and the receipt on the right, which is then separated. Thus used parcel stamps are generally found in halves. Italian collectors like their used examples to be intact pairs, but Stanley Gibbons implies that such used pairs must have been favour cancelled. This is demonstrably not the case. This Swiss parcel card demonstrates one of the occasions when genuine use (rather than a favour cancel) results in an unsplit pair.
In this case parcel stamps have been used to collect a fee of 1100 lire on a parcel from Switzerland. Note that although the value is given twice on each pair, this does not mean that this is the amount paid for each half.
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Here is an example where the stamp has been used alongside a Concessionary Parcels stamp, again being used as an intact pair as a receipt for a fee payable by the addressee.
Parcel 'card' for a private courier firm.
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Finally, here is another example where 1000 lire parcel stamp has been used as an intact pair as a receipt for a fee payable by the addressee for a parcel sent from the USA.
Parcel label carrying a 1000 lire Parcel Stamp pair.
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40 lire orange brown, 50 lire blue, 75 lire brown and 110 lire red.
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As with the parcel stamps, these come with three types of stars watermark.
110 lire red and 110 lire yellow.
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75 lire brown and 500 lire ochre.
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70 lire green and 900 lire blue.
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3000 lire red and blue.
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3000 lire on delivery document.
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Copyright reserved by the author, Tony Clayton
v8 23rd April 2015
