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Stamp of the Italy (Italian Social Republic); 1944; commemorative stamp of the issue "Destroyed buildings and monuments - 2nd emission"; drawing of the site of the Monte Cassino Abbey (near Lazio) from bird's eye view before the destroying on the ; inscription "HOSTIUM RABIES DIRUIT" (= Latin for "Destroyed by the violence of the enemies"); mint stamp with gumming
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The Monte Cassino Abbey was located in the near of the town Lazio. The stamp motive shows a bird's eye view of this abbey before its destroying on . The abbey was on this day destroyed completly (until to the foundation walls with exception of the crypt) by a senseless and ignorant attack by the US Air Force and artillery. ...There were no German defensive positions and that was also conveyed to the US-Generals with the appeal of a spare of the abbey.... At this attack was the abbey inclusive all there arthistorical artefacts complete destroyed by an 3-hours-bombardement at which dead at least 427 civil people, mostly monks and nuns.

institution QS:P195,Q334051

Stamp: Michel: No. 659 (ITA); Yvert & Tellier: No. 38 (ITA-RSI); Scott: No. 29 (ITA-RSI)
Color: purple to violet
Watermark: none (= type "Y")
Nominal value: 1 Lire (Lira, ₤)

Postage validity: from 11 September 1944 until 31 December 1946
date QS:P, 1944-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580, 1944-09-11T00:00:00Z/11,P582, 1946-12-31T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size (printed area): 17.0 x 21.0 mm
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author Postal administration of the government of the Italian Social Republic
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This work was created by or on behalf of either the government, the former national Fascist Party, an academy, or a non-profit organisation of Italy. It was published prior to 1976, and has no known US copyright registration associated with it. It is now in the public domain in Italy and the United States and possibly elsewhere because its copyright term has expired. According to Law for the Protection of Copyright and Neighbouring Rights n.633, 22 April 1941, revised by the law of 6 February 2016, copyright in works created and published under the name and at the expense of national, provincial and communal governments shall belong to the relevant administration; the same right shall also belong to private legal entities of a non-profit-making character, as well as to the academies and other public cultural organisations (Art. 11). The duration of the rights belonging to the government, the former national Fascist Party, academies and non-profit or public cultural organisations shall be twenty years from first publication, whatever the form in which publication was affected (Art. 29).
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Picture description Bird eye's view of the Monte Cassino Abbey
First day of issue
Publisher Postal administration of the government of the Italian Social Republic
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer Printery in Novara (Italy, Region Piedmont)
Printing technique Rotogravure (Italian: "stampa a rotocalco"; German: "Rotationstiefdruckverfahren")
Circulation ? (in sheets à 100 stamps)
Perforation Block perforation, B 14
MICHEL Nr. Italien, Nr. 659Y
SCOTT Nr. Italy - Italian Social Republic, No. 29

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