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Year: 1930
The Roman Aqueducts - 60 centesimo
This stamp concludes the welfare commemoration by highlighting the themes of classical engineering, infrastructure, and architectural triumph, illustrating a ruined section of the ancient Roman aqueducts cutting across the Campagna landscape. This iconic imagery carries a profound cultural message of civilization, water management, and logistical mastery, linking the structural achievements of antiquity directly to the developmental ambitions of the modern Italian state. The composition is bounded by columns displaying the symbolic fasces axes, reinforcing a message of state-directed organization, discipline, and authority. For the population and services of Italian Somaliland, this overprinted "SOMALIA ITALIANA" issue, carrying a 30-centesimi plus 60-centesimi value, functioned as an ideological instrument, distributing the monumental symbols of Rome's historical engineering legacy to standardise identity and project a narrative of progress across its East African network.
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Great Egret (Casmerodius albus / Ardea alba)
Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer / Leptoptilos crumeniferus)
Pink-backed Pelican (Pelecanus rufescens)
African Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)
Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis)
White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
Hirola / Hunter's Hartebeest (Beatragus hunteri / Damaliscus hunteri)
Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri)
Lesser Kudu (Strepsiceros imberbis / Tragelaphus imberbis)
Common Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus)
Soemmerring’s Gazelle (Nanger soemmerringii / Gazella soemmeringi)
Gerenuk / Waller's Gazelle (Litocranius walleri)
Speke's Gazelle (Gazella spekei)
Phillips's Dik-Dik (Madoqua phillipsi)
Haggard’s Oribi (Ourebia haggardi)
Grant's Gazelle (Nanger granti) - 80 centesimo
Grant's Gazelle (Nanger granti) - 40 centesimo
Ostrich in Savanna Landscape - 60 centesimo
Ostrich in Savanna Landscape - 20 centesimo
Ostrich in Savanna Landscape - 5 centesimo
Alert African Lioness - 25 lira
Ostrich in Savanna Landscape - 5 lira
Ostrich in Savanna Landscape - 2.55 lira
