40 CENTESIMI

As stated in the general introduction I will limit myself to list and represent (when I have available the images) only the basic color families, leaving out all the infinite catalogues shades that I list a at the end of the page just for knowledge and completeness (click here to go to this section now). I adopted the scheme used by most catalogues to divide the shades on the basis of the year of issue.
This value was printed with only one plate.
ATTENTION: the stamps here presented do have just an INDICATIVE value in relationship to the color shades: any system composed by scanner + monitor + video will give back colors even quite different from the ones I have chosen. For this reason the scans in this page CANNOT be used as absolute reference but only as approximate indication of the shades.

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We can group schematically the 40 cents shades as follows:
(NOTE: some color shades are present in different years, printed with different printing runs)

Shade	Used from	Image
Vermilion	July 1855	Fig. 1
Orange vermilion	June 1857	Fig. 2
Scarlet red	July 1857	Fig. 3
Brick Red/vermilion	August 1859	- - -
Red	October 1859	Fig. 4
Carmine	March 1860	- - -
Pink - lilac pink	March 1860	- - -
Carmine red	April 1861	Fig. 5
Vermilion red	April 1861	Fig. 6
Pale/carmine pink	March 1862	Fig. 7
Vermilion pink	January 1863	Fig. 8

 

Fig. 1: vermilion shade	Fig. 2: orange vermilion shade
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Fig. 3: scarlet red shade	Fig. 4: red shade
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Fig. 5: carmine red shade	Fig. 6: vermilion red shade
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Fig. 7: carmine pink shade	Fig. 8: vermilion pink shade
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Catalogued color shades (as per Sassone)

Shades of 1855
Bright vermilion
Vermilion
DArk vermilion
Pink vermilion

Shades of 1857
Scarlet red
Bright scarlet red
Bright vermilion orange
Deep orange vermilion

Shades of 1859
Brick red
Brick vermilion
Carmine red

Shades of 1860
Red
Carmine
Lilac carmine
Pink
Dark pink
Lilac red
Dark lilac pink

Shades of 1861
Carmine red
Vermilion red

Shades of 1862
Pink vermilion
pale pink
Lilac carmine pink

Shades of 1863
Vermilion pink
Bright vermilion pink