Italy 1945 Definitives from 1944 with overprint

• Edition : "Poste del Regno d'Italia", definitive stamps of issue "Definitives from 1944 with overprint"; (meant is the issue of 1944 of the Italian Social Republic "Destroyed Monuments"); all stamps of this issue have the watermark Italy No. 1; issue of 4 stamps
  

This issue was edited after the end of the Fascist "Italian Social Republic".

• Issue date : 02 May 1945
• Catalogue Numbers: Michel: No. 667, 668; Yvert et Tellier: No. 452, 453; Scott: No. 461, 462
• Color : red - green, both with black overprint
• Watermark : Italy No. 1X (crown)
• Nominal Value : 1.20 Lire on 20 Cent. (Centesimi) - 2 Lire on 25 Cent. (Centesimi)
• Postage validity : to 18 Jul 1946
• Printed by : "Officina carte valori", Rome
• Print Process : rotogravure (photogravure)
• Perforation : block perforation, B 14
• Stamp Size : printed area of a single stamp without signature line: 16.5 x 20.5 mm
• Print error : 2 Lire on 25 Cent.: the difference between the "2" and the "L" is greater as at the other stamps (= field No. 68 of a sheet à 100 stamps (10 x 10))

Commemorative stamps of the issue "Definitives from 1944 with overprint"

Michel No 667, 1.20 L. on 20 C., mint	Michel No 667, 1.20 L. on 20 C., postmarked
Michel No 668, 2 Lire on 25 C., mint	Michel No558, 2 Lire on 25 C., postmarked

1.20 L. on 20 C.: The stamp motive shows a former view to the "Loggia of the Merchants" of the "Palazzo della Mercancia" in Bologna.
2.00 L. on 25 C.: The stamp motive shows a former view to the "Basilica of San Lorenzo" in Rome.