F.A.Q.Q: Why do you specialize in old italian States ?
A: Our Fathers, our Grand-fathers, our Grand-grand fathers were collecting them and, above all, We Love old italian States stamps !
Q: Why old italian States stamps have often not perfect margins ?
A: In these stamps distance between stamps were often very reduced. In Tuscany stamps distance was only from 2/3 of millimetre to 1 millimetre
Q: Are old italian stamps a good buy?
A: Yes, old italian States stamps have always an effective value, also buy not perfect stamps is never a bad business because their value is always growing year by year.
Q: What could be the future of this stamps ?
A: Modern stamps are printed in millions of sets, some old stamps are already rare and they will be always more scarse and requested by serious collectors.
Q. Why are old italian States stamps so expensive ?
A : More rare is the stamp greater is his value; but if you look carefully in our offers there are some quite affordable .
Q: Which is special about old stamps ?
A: We think old stamps have an "extra" value because they are also antiques and some are a part of history itself; speaking about this listen to the story of:
Some stamps of Provisional Governement of Tuscany's Granduchy were used during the occupation of a part of Vatican State by "Tiber's Hunters", a volunteers corps lead by Colonel Luigi Masi.
These stamps were cancelled using the Vatican postmark.
Occupation started 8 October 1860 and ended the 20th same month.
Is it normal that these stamps have a extra-extra value.
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