Italy: From postal parcel stamps to...

How were these used as a double? I assumed that half went with the parcel advice note, and the other part was a receipt .. so used would be two singles.

Am I completely wrong.? How does it work in a Italy ?

My knowledge of parcel delivery is limited to Uk where parcels are delivered to the door , and to Scandinavia where only an advice card is delivered to the door and the customer takes the card to the post office and collects his parcel,

Parcel post were made by two section because they have been tought to be applied on parcel bulettins. One side on the stamp would have remained on the receipt given back to the sender, the other side applied on the bulettin which would have followed the shipment.
But there are regular uses of the whole stamps not divided. One of those is on shipment bulettins coming from abroad, marking custom and postal fees to be paid by the receier.
I have few examples of such use, maybe the quality is not so high, but still interesting.
Just the first make me think because youcan see a 65L but there are stamps applied for a lot more... My tought is the 200L stamp has been applied in place of a 5L one, but the postmarks seems good... A friend of mine told me the fee calculation in this case can be complicated and there could be other fees applied to the 65L postage... I just keep it like it is...

PS! Not sure i've already shown them

@ameis33 - The postmark on the pair of 200L values is perfectly good. Nothing suspicious.

I've no idea how these are rated.

I love non-standard items such as this (these)

The first stamps have been issued with the classic italian winged wheel watermark. Later on, close to the end of the '50s, this watermark has been replaced by the star carpet watermark.
And the same stamps for private parcel delivery have been reissued using this new kind of paper and with new denomination.

I believe you will understand the key-values of this new set are the 75L/110L (pink)

These stamps are usually collected new or used not separated. For some reason, in Italy half sections are considered sons of a lesser god

Have many "sons of God"    (parcel post stamps) but no parcel post authorized delivery stamps (private) - Thanks for showing !!

René

In 1968, the Italian postal administration issued a stamp for the authorized private parcel delivery, with face value of 150L in red color. In the following years, a small quantity of this stamp seemed to have been printed on a "defective" paper coil, which kept a small fluorescence which the regular stamps should not have.

A well known roman stamp dealer, having known about this stamp, could get a big provision of it and the history of what it should have been one of the most scarse stamps of the Republic began. A stamp magazine publicized the newborn jewel, and a wellknow roman stamp expert started producing certificates. This operation raised the value of the stamp from a face value of 150L to a market value of 100.000-150.000 lire. Don't get stuck about the huge values. What is actually 1 euro was used to be around 2.000 lire. But still those were a lot of money...
But when the remaining hundreds of sheets arrived on the market, the bubble deflated, and this stamp, the so called "Fosforino" can now be found for much less...

Although fluorescence was introduced in Italy towards the end of the '60s, in this case it's not a matter of fluorescent inks or papers, but more likely, given the modest response, of coils of paper treated with an excess of whitening substances whose luminophoric components have deposited or been retained by the paper.

An example of a 150L non fluorescent and the "fosforino", with his certificate, issued by a famous italian expert, like all the other certificates issued for the same stamp.

ameis33 thank you for the above links on Italian philately..I am in the near future hoping to move my budding Italian stamps & colonies collection from stock books into albums,and these links nicely break down the different eras into manageable sections for me.

looking for the unusual as always, thought I'd found something that was less well known, but obviously it is  -  anyway, decided to post just, I think, because I didn't see the 100 Lire blue (SG P77), so far.

Hello ameis33 - a very big thanks for adding the link for the parcel stamps - will read and digest soon - perhaps the word 'conjoined' might be suitable:-) As for the watermark for the 100L, I'll examine and come back to you with details. thanks again.