ITALY 1944 - PRINT ERROR ON TOP STAMP - Special Delivery RSI WWII

Description: PER VENDITE INTERNAZIONALI = POTRESTE RISPARMIARE CON SPEDIZIONE DI SVARIATI OGGETTI PER MEZZO DI UNA SPEDIZIONE UNICA ― SE EBAY NEL VOSTRO INTERNET NON PROVEDE QUESTO METODO, ALLORA MANDATEMI UNA RICHIESTA DI INSERIRE DI PIÙ OGGETTI PER UNA SPEDIZIONE UNICA ― SI PREGA DI FORNIRE NUMERI DELLE INSERZIONI -- OPPURE SCREENSHOT DEGLI OGGETTI DESIDERATI. FOR INTERNATIONAL BUYERS = SAVE MONEY WITH COMBINED SHIPPING ― CONTACT THE SELLER TO REQUEST MULTIPLE ITEMS BE INSERTED INTO A SINGLE LISTING FOR A SINGLE SHIPMENT WITH A SINGLE SHIPPING FEE ― PLEASE PROVIDE ITEM NUMBERS OR SCREENSHOTS OF THE DESIRED ITEMS. TWO Mint Stamps with Original Gum - Never Hinged Scott Cat E3 - Sassone Cat 23c - special delivery 1944RSI Monuments: "Hostium Rabies Diruit" translated from Latin = "Destroyed by Enemy Violence" Collected and kept in excellent condition since 1944 when the stamps were issued during WWII by Mussolini's Fascist R.S.I, Social Republic Postal Authority.The top stamp has a VALUABLE PRINT ERROR item '23c' in SASSONE specialized catalog:THE PRINT ERROR is the broken 'P' of the word 'REPUBBLICA' in the top stamp.The SASSONE specialized catalog reported the the error's value at 62,50 Euros in 2014.This listing sells the two stamps depicted in the main photo.The other images provide philatelic and historical information about our family, and to introduce my father, eBay seller/collector, Victor Perantoni. He was a P.S.I. activist in Mantova, Italy, who took part in promoting Italy's "Piena Sovranitá Italiana" in 1945.==================== We sell Victor Perantoni's Rare P.S.I. MANTOVA STAMPS in our family's eBay Store *MINT-NEVER HINGED* with Original Gum: INFO FACTS ABOUT 'PSI MANTOVA OVERPRINTS' from Italy's Pre-Republic Post-War "LUOGOTENENZA ERA" of 1945. They're 'City-Rule' stamps issued by Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (CLN) in Mantova five months after the fall of Fascism, as authorized by the Allied Military Government (AMG). Mantova is my birth town in Italy's Lombardy Plain region, halfway between Milano and Venice. During WWII, the region was central to Mussolini's infamous Nazi-Fascist Social Republic, the R.S.I. The region fought eighteen months of bloody civil war against Central and Southern Italy, followed by war against Allied Forces.Liberation finally came on 29 April 1945. In the following months, the region's philatelists realized the need to celebrate the nation with a special issue of stamps to promote the social reunification of Italy. Philatelists and postal workers of Mantova led the project after obtaining the approval of AMG authorities. P.S.I. stands for “Piena Sovranità Italiana” (Full Italian Sovreignty). From the onset, however, Communist Partisans who had occupied the region soon after the fall of Fascism brought an abundance of trouble to Mantova's philatelists and postal workers over the project.The attached images of ITALY PHILATELIC NEWS 1946 (with my translations to English) provide interesting information about the short-lived 2-day P.S.I. stamp series. In brief, Communist Partisans asserted to AMG authorities that the project was promoting a resurgence of defunct Fascism. The Communist Partisans based their assertion on two of the 6-stamp series containing forbidden fascist symbols in the bottom corners of the 15-cent and 35-cent denominations' stamp images. It was an innocent mistake caused by the lack of 15 and 35-cent stamp denominations without 'fasces' - coupled with the printing urgency to promote PSI (Full Italian Sovereignty) before the AMG Dec 31 departure. So, the postal printers "borrowed" 15 and 35-cent denominations from their previous stocks of stamps 'with fasces' and used them as base stamps for overprinting two of each 6-stamp sets. It was a dangerous, risky mistake that infuriated Italian Communist Partisans into making threats of violence, even threatening death, to the philatelists and postal workers of Mantova, including Victor Perantoni (my father), who was one of Mantova's philatelist promoters of the P.S.I. stamps in September 1945.What's more, all other C.L.N. stamps issued with AMG authority prior to the fall of Fascism celebrated liberation from Nazi Fascism -- instead, the P.S.I. Mantova stamps celebrated the departure of AMG by promoting 'Full Italian Sovereignty.' It became a serious controversy for Italy's Communist Partisans.The resulting social disorder and threats of violence caused local AMG authorities to delay their departure and resolve the situation. So, the AMG approved the Communist Partisans' request to cease the sales of P.S.I. Mantova stamps, but AMG also approved continued usage of PSI stamps that had already been sold.As a result, the short-lived PSI MANTOVA STAMP SALES was from 27 Sept 1945 to 29 Sept 1945. Only 2 days! Their usage, however, was approved to continue until 31 Dec 1945. The stamps are Rare Postal History. Each 6-stamp set contains 2 of Italy's LAST FASCIST STAMPS legally circulated 8-months AFTER WWII. ======================== FOR INTERNATIONAL BUYERS = SAVE MONEY WITH COMBINED SHIPPING ― CONTACT THE SELLER TO REQUEST MULTIPLE ITEMS BE INSERTED INTO A SINGLE LISTING FOR A SINGLE SHIPMENT WITH A SINGLE SHIPPING FEE ― PLEASE PROVIDE ITEM NUMBERS OR SCREENSHOTS OF THE DESIRED ITEMS. PER VENDITE INTERNAZIONALI = RISPARMIO PER SPEDIZIONE DI SVARIATI OGGETTI PER MEZZO DI UNA SPEDIZIONE UNICA ― CONTATTA IL VENDITORE PER RICHIEDERE L'INSERIMENTO DI PIÙ OGGETTI CON UNICO PREZZO DI SPEDIZIONE ― SI PREGA DI FORNIRE NUMERI DELLE INSERZIONI O SCREENSHOT DEGLI OGGETTI DESIDERATI.

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