Italy 500 stamps used

Fill Your Album with Italy's Rich Postal Tradition —
500 Used Stamps for Just Pennies Apiece!

Italy's postal history spans the full arc of the modern era — from the first stamps of the unified kingdom in 1862 through the republic's long run of commemoratives honoring everything from Roman antiquity to European cooperation. No other country has documented its own civilization quite so thoroughly on paper, or with such consistent attention to design. A collection of Italian stamps is, in a real sense, a collection of Italian history.

Five hundred stamps give you room to explore that history in depth. What's inside will vary, but here's a sample of what the catalog has to offer:

• Republic-era commemoratives — Italy's postwar stamp program was prolific and wide-ranging, marking anniversaries of artists, scientists, writers, and architects alongside civic milestones, international organizations, and sporting events
• Art on stamps — Italian commemoratives drew heavily from the country's unmatched artistic heritage, reproducing works by Renaissance and Baroque masters and honoring painters, sculptors, and architects by name
• European and international issues — stamps marking Italy's role in the European Coal and Steel Community, the United Nations, and other postwar institutions reflect the country's place at the center of mid-century international life
• Architecture and monuments — castles, cathedrals, Roman ruins, and civic buildings appear across multiple definitive and commemorative series, documenting the physical landscape of the peninsula from Sicily to the Alps
• Postage dues and back-of-book material — Italy's distinctive numerical postage due stamps and authorized delivery issues add postal history variety to a packet already rich in topical subjects

Five hundred stamps, just pennies apiece — order today and see what's inside.