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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 15 February 1944; inscription "HOSTIUM RABIES DIRUIT" (= Latin for "Destroyed by the violence of the enemies"); mint stamp with gumming
Note:
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 15 February 1944. 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.

Abbey of Monte Cassino

	Native name	Abbazia di Montecassino
	Location	Montecassino, Lazio, Italy
	Coordinates	41° 29′ 28.54″ N, 13° 48′ 52.33″ E
	Established	530
	Authority file	: Q334051 VIAF: 133865391 ISNI: 000000012288081X ULAN: 500312825 LCCN: n80001255 OSM: 1148151 WorldCat

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
Stamp picture size (printed area): 17.0 x 21.0 mm

Date

11 September 1944 (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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Public domain	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).	Italy
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Picture description	Bird eye's view of the Monte Cassino Abbey
First day of issue	11 September 1944
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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