ALBANIA / SHQIPËRIA.
Airmail.
Map of Albania with air routes.
Second stamp in a set of 7, isued on 20.03.1940.
Face value: 15 qindarkë.
Printing: Photogravure.
Catalogs
- Michel No. 314.
- Scott No. C48.
- StampWorld No. 345.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 367.
- Unificato No. A 6.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 38.
When
this stamp was issued, Albania was occupied by Italy, which had incorporated it
into its metropolitan territory and had proclaimed its King Victor Emmanuel II,
King of Albania: in effect, the stamp reads MBRETNIJA SHQIPTARE, which means
"Kingdom of Albanians ”. Italy established a network of air connections in
the country with the Ala
Littoria company, which are the ones that appear on the stamp, although few
of them operated regularly. These routes stopped operating in September 1944,
after German troops, who had replaced the Italians a year earlier, were defeated
by Albanian partisans.
Thanks to Vairo Gregori for his contribution (https://ternifil.org/).
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