San Marino

San Marino stamps

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Republic of San Marino is a small republic situated on the slopes of Mount Titano, on the Adriatic side of central Italy (between the Romagna and the Marche regions). SAN MARINO surrounded on all sides by the Republic of Italy. The republic's area of 23.5 square miles (61 square km) makes it the smallest independent state in Europe after Vatican City and Monaco and, until the independence of Nauru (1968), the smallest republic in the world.

#266-9

#270-1 #C55

Scott: #266-8P, #269-71O, #C55O

Issued: 24.12.1947

Centenary, US Stamps

Inside #266-71, #C55: US #1O

Inside #267, #269-71: US #2O

Inside #267, #269-71: US #122O

Scott: #426P, #C100P

Issued: 8.10.1958

Centenary of the Stamps of Naples

nap05 Inside #426: Two Sicilies #5O

Inside #C100: Two Sicilies #7O

To learn more – visit: The stamps of the OLD ITALIAN STATES

Scott: #437P, #C109P

Issued: 29.8.1959

Centenary of the Stamps of Romagna

Inside #437: Romagna #1O

Inside #C109: Romagna #4O

To learn more – visit: The stamps of the OLD ITALIAN STATES

Scott: #439-43P, #444O, #445O, #C110P

Issued: 16.10.1959

Centenary of the Stamps of Sicily


Inside #439: Two Sicilies #10O	Inside #440: Two Sicilies #11aO

Inside #441: Two Sicilies #13O	Inside #442: Two Sicilies #14aO

Inside #443: Two Sicilies #16O	Inside #444: Two Sicilies #17O

Inside #445, #C110: Two Sicilies #18O

To learn more – visit:The stamps of the OLD ITALIAN STATES

Scott: #487-9P

Issued: 5.9.1961

Centenary of Independence Philatelic Exhibition

sard4-2 Inside #487-9: Sardinia #11aO

To learn more – visit:The stamps of the OLD ITALIAN STATES

#911 #913

#915

Scott: #911-5P

Issued: 15.6.1977

Centenary of San Marino Stamps

Inside #911-5: San Marino Type A2O (B) (Pic of #22)

Scott: #916aP

Issued: 28.8.1977

Congress of Italian Philatelists' Union

Inside #916: Pseudo Stamp

Scott: #994P

Issued: 18.9.1980

Robert Stolz, "Philatelic Waltz" Score

Inside #994: Pseudo Stamp

san marino Mi P61 fd cx-2

San Marino Mi P61 imprinted postal card

san marino Mi LF12 imprinted aerogram

San Marino Mi LF12 imprinted aerogram

Issued: 01.09.1982

The centenary of San Marino first postal card

sos san marino Mi P1 postal card 1882

San Marino Mi P1 postal card 1882

Lou Wrote: San Marino on September 1, 1982 issued three postal stationery items to commemorate the centenary of its first postal card. Reproduced in the indicia in changed colors is an artist representation of the imprinted design on the 10C. card - the "Libertâ Turrita", Liberty with a headdress of three towers, symbolic of San Marino, from a statue created in 1876 and located in the city of San Marino. I own a mint example of the 1882 card.

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

#1139

Scott: #1139O

Issued: 29.8.1987

OLYMPHILEX '87

Inside #1139: Pseudo Stamp

#1148 #1150

#1152

Scott: #1148-52P

Issued: 17.3.1988

Promote Stamp Collecting


Inside #1148: San Marino #81O	Inside #1148: San Marino #B25O	Inside #1148: San Marino #859O

Inside #1149: San Marino #C11O

#349

+RSM M1236

Inside #1150: San Marino #349P

Inside #1150: San Marino #1006P

(thanks to Komlóssy Zoltán for the scan)


Inside #1151: San Marino #944P	Inside #1151: San Marino #1031O


Inside #1152: San Marino #303O	Inside #1152: San Marino #1081O	Inside #1152: San Marino #308P

Scott: #1179-83P

Issued: 13.5.1989

Postal History, Promote Stamp Collecting

#916 Inside #1179: San Marino #916O

#1151 Inside #1180: San Marino #1151P

Inside #1181: Italy #47P

Inside #1182: San Marino Type SP3 EssayO?

[Stamps Collecting, type AQA] [Stamps Collecting, type AQB] [Stamps Collecting, type AQC] [Stamps Collecting, type AQD] [Stamps Collecting, type AQE]

Scott: #1225-9P

Issued: 12.2.1991

Promote Stamp Collecting

Inside #1225-9: Stamp Collecting

#1401-4

Scott: #1401-4P

Issued: 27.6.1997

120th Anniversary, First San Marino Stamps

Inside #1401-2, #1404: None-Postal Personage

Inside #1403: San Marino Postal Card MiPl-Vignette Detail

Scott: #1404aO

Public postal services were introduced for San Marino on 7 October 1607, with a "Postillion who will go to collect and carry the letters to the Post Office at Rimini". Two centuries later, in 1833, the Republic’s own proper post office was opened, in a palazzo which overlooked the Pianello. However, the mail was franked, eventually, only in the Rimini office, first Papal, then Sardinian and finally Italian, up to 1852 with the simple handstamp Affrancata and after that with postage stamps.

It was only on 1 January 1863, when new postal regulations came into force in Italy and established that a double tax was payable on unfranked letters, that San Marino decided to provide itself with postage stamps : Italian stamps were therefore obtained in Rimini according to need. When the first postal treaty with Italy was signed on 7 February 1865 San Marino decided to carry on with the use of Italian stamps, at least "for now", since a restricted postal traffic did not yet justify the production of their own stamps. Ten years later, however, the situation had changed.

On 2 March 1877 a postal convention between partners of equal status was signed, as a result of which the two administration retained "for themselves and in its entirety, the tax received by their respective offices" for the franking of letters ; a franking which must "be represented by the postage stamps in use in the respective states". It was thus that San Marino became the first of the small European states to provide itself with its own stamps. They came into use on 1 August 1877, a month later than had been foreseen in the Convention, because of delays in the delivery of supplies on the part of the Italian government printing works.

The people who conceived and promoted these stamps: individuals who are quite well know, but only to specialist in the field and who have never before been remembered with a stamp, one of those actual "pieces of paper" which played such an important part in their lives.

The first is Count Giovanni Battista Barbavera di Gravellona, who became Director-General of the Sardinian Post Office in 1859, which later became the Italian Post Office, a position he held until 1 February 1880, as well as being a Senator of the Kingdom. His signature appears at the foot of both the postal conventions between San Marino and Italy, alongside those of the two great Councillors and Plenipotentiaries of the Republic, Count Cibrario in 1865 and Senator Vigliani in 1877.

The second is Enrico Repettati, chief engraver for the Officina Carte Valori in Turin (which appears in the background of the stamp), who designed and engraved, or at the very least oversaw the production of, all the postal values issued by San Marino in the 19th century.

The third is Otto Bickel, the active and often unjustly criticised German dealer in stamps, fossils and virtually anything that could be collected, who resided in San Marino between 1891 and 1894, diffusing knowledge and promoting the collection of the Republic’s postal values through the multi-lingual monthly San Marino-Philatelist and his original illustrated envelopes.

Last but no means least is Alfredo Reffi, Sammarinese stamp dealer and publisher of many distinguished postcards (one of which appears as the background of the stamp), and who was many times a Captain-Regent, who promoted the stamps of San Marino in a intelligent manner, at first with his sales lists and then in the 1930s through an elegant and well-documented catalogue.

Each of the four individuals is pictured within a frame that is inspired in design and colour by the four stamps of 1877, as is the case with the coat of arms reproduced on each sheet.

http://www.aasfn.sm/english/english.htm

#1428

Scott: #1427-8O

Issued: 28.8.1998

50^th Anniversary of Riccione, Italian International Stamp Fair

Inside #1427-8: Pseudo Stamp

#1430

Scott: #1430P

Issued: 23.10.1998

Italia '98

Inside #1430: Pseudo Stamp

Scott: #1517P

Issued: 9.10.2001

Dialogue among Civilizations

Inside #1517: Pseudo Stamp on Envelope

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

[The 125th Anniversary of San Marino Stamps, type ]

Scott: #1539O

Issued: 3.6.2002

125^th Anniversary, Stamps of San Marino

Inside #1539a-d: San Marino #1O

Inside #1539a-d: San Marino #7O

#11 Inside #1539a-d: San Marino #11O

#15 Inside #1539a-d: San Marino #15O

#17 Inside #1539a-d: San Marino #17O

#1539b #1539d

Scott: #1539a-dO

#1561

Scott: #1561O

Issued: 18.3.2003

Varonafil Exhibition 2003

SOS on tab, left or right

#649 Inside #1561: Spain #649O

Inside #1561: Sweden #175P

sos italy 481 Inside #1561: Italy #481O

FCD

2006-17

Scott: #1767aO

Issued: 5.4.2006

Philatelic Exhibition “Le due Repubbliche”

Inside #1767a: Pseudo Stamps

Philatelic exhibition Le Due Repubbliche, (April 8 to May 7, 2006). Souvenir sheet containing one stamp from each country.

Identical stamps part of a common souvenir sheet. Each country issued its own siamese souvenir sheet. They can be differentiated with the order in which the stamp are presented. Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome, home of the Italian Parliament and Palazzo Pubblico, San Marino, seat of the San Marino government. On the souvenir sheet, two female figures, wearing national colors, are holding their respective buildings and states. The stamps from the souvenir sheets bear on the back gummed side the text "VALIDO POSTALMENTE SOLO IN ITALIA" on the Italian stamp and "VALIDO POSTALMENTE SOLO A SAN MARINO" on the San Marino stamp.

http://www.jointstampissues.net/new_issues/news2006_01_04.htm

#1707

Scott: #1707O

Issued: 23.1.2007

Announcement of Philatelic Event –

Glaray, Expert of San Marino Postage Stamp collecting and History

Inside #1707: San Marino Stamps on Envelope Type A2

Inside #1707: San Marino #16O

Inside #1707: San Marino #18O

Inside #1707: San Marino #7O

Inside #1707: San Marino #1O

#11 Inside #1707: San Marino #11O (Partly)

Thanks to Prof. Plinio Richelmi

2008A 2008A1

Scott: #1756O, #1757P

Issued: 13.6.2008

Europa - The Letter

italy offices abroad #7 Inside #1756: Italian Offices Abroad #7O

Inside #1756: Imprinted indicia on an official Postage Paid envelope from Vanuatu

#276 Inside #1757: U.S. #276O (?)

Inside #1757: TBI (?)

%23815 #816

Lou Guadagno suggested: Italy #813O, #815P and #816P

Thanks to Prof. Plinio Richelmi and Lou Guadagno

See also Martin Hirschbuhl article on SOS Signal Number 39.

San Marino 2009

#11 Inside #???: San Marino #11O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno and Martin Hirschbuhl

Scott: #1854O

Issued: 11.10.2011

Alcide De Gasperi

Inside #1854a: Italy #464P

Inside #1854b: Italy #464AP

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

Scott: #1882-3O

Issued: 03.04.2013

Europe 2013 – Mail vehicles

Inside #1883: Stamp On Envelope - TBI

san marino-- 10 9 (2)

Scott: #1892O

Issued: 09.10.2013

Anniversary CIFT (Centro Italiano di Filatelia Tematica/ Italian Center of Thematic Philately)

sos san marino 1583 2003 Inside #1892: San Marino #1583O

san marino impr postal card

Inside #1892: San Marino imprinted postal cardO

sos san marino 1349 1996 Inside #1892: San Marino #1349P

Scan not available

Inside #????: San Marino imprinted meter stamp

sos san marino 1483a 2000 Inside #????: San Marino #1483aO

sos san marino 567 1963 Inside #????: San Marino #567O

san marino sheetlet

Scott: #1892O

#1148 Inside #???? (in margin of sheet of 10 v): San Marino #1148P

[Stamps Collecting, type AQB] Inside #???? (in margin of sheet of 10 v): San Marino #1227O

#1149 Inside #???? (in margin of sheet of 10 v): San Marino #1149P

#1150 Inside #???? (in margin of sheet of 10 v): San Marino #1150P

#1151 Inside #???? (in margin of sheet of 10 v): San Marino #1151P

Inside #???? (in margin of sheet of 10 v): San Marino #1228O

#1152 Inside #???? (in margin of sheet of 10 v): San Marino #1152P

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

Scott: #????O

Issued: 13.06.2017

140th anniversary of the first postal issue of San Marino

Inside #????: San Marino Type A2O (Pic of #22)

The first issue of San Marino stamps dates back to 1 August 1877, with an ordinary series of five stamps. To celebrate this event, the Republic issues a special adhesive stamp embroidered with white thread on a blue canvas representing the coat of arms of San Marino municipality with its three towers, the three feathers and the wording "Libertas".

Thanks to Martin Hirschbühl

San Marino 2020