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I am not sure are these stamps some kind of locals, church revenues or even cinderellas (poster stamps)? Because one of them have a cancellation on it, I think that it could be some kind of church (missionary) local? It is almost impossible to Google out anything about them. Btw. on the Italian language "Unione Missionaria Francescana" means "Franciscan Missionary Union", so these are stamps of the Catholic church for sure.

They are cinderellas to raise funds for missions.

Luca

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Luca
Interested in Napoleonic period, postal relations between Great Britain and Europe from 1793 to 1815, Jamaica pre-stamp mail, Samoa "palm tree" issues, philatelic literature.

Thank you on the reply Luca. Do you know are they listed somewhere? Is there more stamps in the complete set, or just these 2 values (5 and 10 cent.)? Is the cancellation which appears on the left one usual Italian of that time (done accidentally with other stamps) or it is also some kind Francescan internal cancellation? Thanks again, Filip

Hi Filipo,
In Italy cinderellas are not so collected: I know a catalogue exists but I do not have it. They are cancelled by a mark which is not postal. Unfortunately I cannot tell you more.

Luca

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Luca
Interested in Napoleonic period, postal relations between Great Britain and Europe from 1793 to 1815, Jamaica pre-stamp mail, Samoa "palm tree" issues, philatelic literature.

Thank you very much for your help Luca.