Italy – offices abroad

General issues

 * In 1874, stamps were issued for extraterritorial Italian post offices. The stamps, with small intentional differences in the corner ornaments from Italian ones, were overprinted ESTERO. Several offices were already opened before this time. These offices were:
 * Alexandria (Egypt), 1863-84
 * Assab (Eritrea), 1883-93
 * Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1874-78
 * La Goletta/La Goulette (Tunisia), 1852-97
 * Massaua/Massawa (Eritrea), 1885-93
 * Montevideo (Uruguay), 1874-78
 * Susa, 1880-97 (Soussa, Tunisia???)
 * Tripoli (Libya), 1869-1911
 * Tunis (Tunisia), 1852-97
 * In 1878-79, two more values were issued.
 * In 1881-88, overprints were issued on newer Italian stamps.

 File:Italy off abroad 1c.jpg|1874 1c value. File:Italy off abroad.jpg|1881 25c definitive. File:Italy off abroad 2L.jpg|1874 2 lira value. 

Forgeries and fake cancels exist.

Later issues
Later issues were overprinted for specific offices. See:  File:Ital off Tur 3pi on 25c.jpg 
 * Offices in China
 * Offices in Crete
 * Offices in Africa
 * Offices in the Turkish Empire