1 9 5 2 / T R I E S T (Zone B)
Dear friends !
During the twelve months of 2006 I will present interesting items of the
twelve oldest Volleyball stamps. I hope you will be
interested in them. Today we continue with the fifth part (May), a stamp
from
Triest Zone B, today Italy). If you have any interesting covers or other material to
enrich this site, please let me know.
Gunter
The fifth Volleyball stamp issued worldwide comes from Triest (Zone B). It was issued on March 26th, 1952 as a general sports issue together with five other values (cycling, soccer, rowing, sailing and gymnastics). This Volleyball stamp was designed by J. Trpin, it was printed in photogravure and has a face value of 50 Dinar. 101.000 of the Volleyball stamp were printed with line perforation 12 ½.
I would also like to add a few words about the stamp issuing territory "Triest, Zone B". After the second world war Triest and the surrounding territories were occupied by the allied forces. On Feb 10, 1947 a peace treaty was signed with Italy. On Sep 16, 1947 the "Free territory of Triest" was declared, a neutral zone which was divided into two zones: Zone A (which had military government by the allied forces), and Zone B (which was controlled by the Yugoslav army). After another treaty signed in London on Oct 5, 1954, both zones were split up between Italy and Yugoslavia.
This is a registered (?) cover sent on
March 26th, 1952 (which is the first day of issue of this stamp series)
from Koper to Milano. All six stamps of the set were used to frank it. I
am sure that it is a philatelically influenced cover, because I do not
believe that it was necesseray to use all six stamps to send a registered
letter to Milano. I also doubt if it is a real registered letter, because
usually for that the sender would have had to write his name and address
either on the front or the reverse side of the cover.
There are two arrival cancel from Venezia and Milano on the reverse sde,
both dated March 28th, 1952.
