Marca da Bollo and other Italian fiscals with stamp-like designs
The Italian revenue stamps (with inscriptions such as ‘Marca da Bollo’, ‘Tassa di bollo, ‘Riscontro’ etc.) often resemble postage stamps. When looking at these, I can’t help thinking “which came first, the chicken or the egg” design wise.
Italian revenue stamps with designs / elements familiar from postage stamps. The overprint 'Alberghi' in last stamp means literally 'Hotels'
As I don’t have an Italian revenue stamps catalog (meaning Unificato), I can’t give out any accurate details on these. But AFAIK the above revenue’s have been issued between 1880’s and early 1930’s.
Slightly newer (1940/50's?) Italian revenue stamps feature a design that is no longer familiar from stamps.
Though these are not stamps, they are still attractive thus deserve their place as BOB (Back-Of-Book) material on my Italian collection.
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very nice blog.. and pretty Alberghi print on the marca da bollo!
Ciao
Tomas
Hi Tomas,
It’s a small world, as yesterday I stumbled upon Your blog.
and thanks
Hello,
the upper 4 marche da bollo are from the old Kingdom of Italy, the lower 2 are from the Republic (after 1945).
The right Republic type was used until 1972, when the IGE, the general income tax, was replaced with IVA (VAT).
The left Republic type, for general use, is known in many values and colors (also in bigger size), survived a few years the Euro changeover, and since 2007 is replaced with self-adhesive labels with hologram strip and barcode, printed by small terminals.
Thanks Spacesurfer