Online Exhibit Hall
The Vatican Philatelic Society is
pleased and proud to present a gallery of the world's most important
competitive exhibits of Vatican City and Roman States philately. All of
these exhibits represent a high level
of philatelic scholarship.
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Vatican
City First Flight Covers
by
Rev. Edward J. Mullowney 
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Shows first
flight covers franked with Vatican postage from 1929 to 1967. The first
two frames constitute the actual exhibit; the third frame (1957-1967) is
made up of additional material. THREE FRAMES.
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Usages of
the Stamps of the Roman States
by
Rev. Edward J. Mullowney
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Shows the
usages of single stamps and multiples to make the correct rates and fees
for mail dispatched from the Papal States between 1852 and 1870.
Highlights include a trisect and a quadrisect as well as a postal forgery
of the five bajocchi value. Numerous multiples and color varieties are
featured inter alia. FIVE FRAMES.
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Zeppelin
Mail Dispatched from Vatican City
by
Rev. Edward J. Mullowney
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Under the Vatican's 1929 concordat with Italy, Vatican
airmail was dispatched from Rome Ciampino Airport. This gave the Vatican
post office access to the zeppelin flights, and Vatican mail was
serviced on German zeppelins between May 1930 and September 1939.This
exhibit contains at least one flown cover from every zeppelin flight that
carried Vatican mail, including examples of Vatican City single, double,
and triple frankings with the stamps of Italy and Germany. TWO
FRAMES.
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Errors,
Freaks, and Varieties of Vatican City's
Council of Trent Issue
by
Rev. Edward J. Mullowney
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A collection
of mostly perforation errors (with a few shifted vignettes) including five usages on cover and
one of the largest-recorded multiples of the ₤10
value imperforate and
misperforate horizontally. ONE FRAME.
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Vatican
Radio
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A topical philatelic
history of the Vatican's official radio service, established in 1931 by
Guglielmo Marconi and broadcasting today to over 60 countries in 47
different languages. THREE
FRAMES.
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Roman States Letter Mail:
Foreign
Destinations
LARGE GOLD
AT
WASHINGTON 2006!
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Shows postal rates and
routes of Roman States letter mail from and to foreign destinations, from
the introduction of postage stamps (1852) until the siege of Rome and the
annexation of the Roman States to the Kingdom of Italy (1870). TEN
FRAMES.
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Roman States Letter Mail:
Italian Peninsula
EXHIBITED
AT WASHINGTON 2006!
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Demonstrates
rates and routes between the Roman States and the rest of the Italian
peninsula, from
the introduction of postage stamps (1852) to the siege of Rome and the
annexation of the Roman States to the Kingdom of Italy (1870). EIGHT
FRAMES.
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Postal History of
the Conciliation Issue
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This exhibit presents significant
selected examples—including a number of previously unrecorded items—of the
postal history of Vatican City's first stamp issue, the Conciliation Issue
of 1929. Postal rates and services of the 1929-1933 period are
featured inter alia. THREE FRAMES.
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Vatican City
Extraterritorial Properties
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The Lateran Treaty of 1929, which
secured the independence of Vatican City from Italy, also granted
extraterritoriality to a number of Church-owned buildings in and around the
city of Rome. This exhibit shows examples of Vatican mail posted from
these locations. TWO FRAMES.
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