Hello there.
This italian cover, free, 1862
Piatoia sent to Livorno， train mail
I want to know the situation (postage, postal route), "FRANCA" free? Is it Italian?
please help me.
thank you very much
Greetings
Dieses italienische Cover, kostenlos, 1862
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Franca is Italian for free.
Correct spelling : Pistoia. But the stamp is difficult to read in the scan.
You can still take a train from Pistoia to Livorno, but it takes more than two hours for ca. 100 km. Not exactly high speed.
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Franca is Italian for free.
Correct spelling : Pistoia. But the stamp is difficult to read in the scan.
You can still take a train from Pistoia to Livorno, but it takes more than two hours for ca. 100 km. Not exactly high speed.
Hello there,
I want to know: about the free post in Italy,
I need a link to the internet
thank you!
Greetings
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Hello there,
Please help me,
About the free postal service in Italy,
I need a link to the internet
thank you!
Greetings
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Free does not necessarily mean that it costs nothing, but especially on a letter that the postage has been paid by the sender. Before stamps were introduced, the addressee often had to pay the postage.
But maybe this cancellation is for a specialist to explain.
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Free does not necessarily mean that it costs nothing, but especially on a letter that the postage has been paid by the sender. Before stamps were introduced, the addressee often had to pay the postage.
But maybe this cancellation is for a specialist to explain.
Hello, Jean Philippe
I need:
Internet link about Italian postage
thank you very much
Greetings
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http://www.ilpostalista.it/spt_50.htm
This link tells you a lot about postal services by train in Tuscany in the 19th century.
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Strade Ferrate Toscane. Società ferroviarie del Granducato di Toscana che, in assenza della privativa postale di Stato, in cambio dell’obbligo di trasportare i sacchi di posta del servizio pubblico (accompagnati da un corriere che pagava regolarmente il biglietto), si occupavano anche del trasporto e del recapito delle corrispondenze, seppure soltanto nelle località toccate dalle rispettive linee. Le tariffe, identiche per tutte le società, erano di 1/2 paolo (poi 3 crazie, e 15 cent.) per ogni lettera, e 1 paolo ogni 2 once per plichi e pacchi fino a 2 libbre: solo nel tragitto Firenze-Pistoia il porto della lettera fu di 2 crazie. Per il servizio postale utilizzavano particolari bolli FRANCA oppure DA ESIGERE 3 CRAZIE (o 15 CENT. dal 1860) ed eccezionalmente anche le etichette del servizio pacchi, come segnatasse. Questi servizi postali privati continuarono a funzionare anche dopo l’annessione al Regno di Sardegna e durante il regno d’Italia fino al 31 dicembre 1862, non essendo stata imposta in Toscana la privativa postale fino alla legge di riforma del 1863. (Vedi Le strade ferrate, le diligenze, i telegrafi in Toscana di Filippo Bargagli Petrucci e Pierluigi Ciucci, Firenze 1985)
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Look on page 40 in this link, the stamp franca with the locomotive seems to be rather rare and expensive (500,- EUR):
https://www.ilpostalista.it/toscana2016/nu2016c.pdf
Gruß kartenhai
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Hello, Jean Philippe, kartenhai
thank you very much.
The train envelope, the seller is 300 euros.
My Chinese friend wants to buy it. His theme is "train", but he doesn't know the specific postal knowledge about this train mail, just the auction explanation: free train mail. . .
Indeed, to be a thematic exhibit, the author must study hard.
In China, we can't use Google, Facebook, and so on. . . With quite a bit of postal knowledge, there is no way to get them.
Fortunately, there is such a forum!
Thank you again.
Greetings