WW 507
The Saintly Hun, by W. Heath Robinson. B SOLD
Price: $600.00
World War 1 & 2
WW 506
Album de Critica. Rare. B
Price: $900.00
WW 501Propaganda leaflet against Jean Zay, former Minister of National Education and Fine Arts. A press campaign, organised by Philippe Henriot, the minister of information in the Vichy government, called for his execution for being "Jewish, freemason and member of the Radical Party", and pointing to his anti-war poem of March 1924, Le Drapeau (The Flag), as evidence of his lack of patriotism. The leaflet shows a humiliating photo of Zay and the text of his poem Le Drapeau on the reverse. AH
Price: $120.00
Note from Wikipedia: In May 1932, Jean Zay (1904-1944) was elected to the French parliament as député to represent Loiret, for the Radical Socialist Party. He defeated the incumbent representative of the Popular Democratic Party, Maurice Berger. He became one of the Jeunes Turcs (Young Turks) who wanted to renew the Radical Party, and was instrumental in the party joining the Popular Front in 1935. After the 1936 election, he was the Minister of National Education and Fine Arts from June 1936. While serving in his position, he extended the school leaving age and introduced a common curriculum in elementary schools. He was a freemason and descended from a Jewish family in Metz.
He resigned as minister in 1939 to join the French Army on the outbreak of the Second World War, serving as a second lieutenant attached to the headquarters of the Fourth Army. He remained a député until 1942, and he was given leave to attend the last session of the French Parliament, held in Bordeaux in June 1940. After the invasion of France by Nazi Germany in 1940, he was one of the passengers aboard the vessel Le Massilia that left from Bordeaux bound for Casablanca on 21 June 1940, with the intention of forming a resistance government in North Africa. He was arrested in August 1940, for desertion, and returned to France where he was held at the military prison in Clermont-Ferrand. He was convicted of desertion by a military tribunal in October 1940, and sentenced to loss of military rank and deportation for life. Held in Marseille, his sentence was commuted to one of internment in France, and he was held in the prison in Riom, sharing a cell with Rabbi Edward Gourévitch. He was allowed to communicate with friends and family, and did not attempt to escape. He was removed from the prison by three miliciens on 20 June 1944, purportedly so he could be transferred to Melun. They murdered him in a wood near an abandoned quarry, at a place called Les Malavaux in the faille du Puits du diable, at Molles in Allier.
The disparaging photo is part of a larger photo showing Zey while climbing the summit of Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak, to open a new overnight shelter on August 21, 1938. One hour from the summit, Zey and his friends slept overnight at the Alpine Club, just one hour climb from the summit. Without knowing this fact, the portion of the photo used by the Vichy government makes Zey look like an idiot, which was the goal of the government.
PCA 290
Two cards produced in 1926 by Fabrica do Tobaco Estrelle in Angola showing Hindenburg of Gemany and Moscieki of Poland. B
Price: $60.00
PCA 289
4 humor/fantasy postcard on Russia in WW1. B
Price: $100.00
PCA 288
6 World War 1 French postcards on Russian infantry and Cossacks. B
Price: $150.00
PCA 287
6 French fantasy postcards on the fraternity between France and Russia in WW1. Correspondence on reverse. B
Price: $150.00
WW 500
Soldaten Kameraden. Erinnerungsbuch an die Mobilmachung und den Aktivdienst 193941. #4712. Fascinating look at the Swiss military during World War 2. B
Price: $600.00
WW 497
US Forces telephone directory for Paris, October 11, 1945. Restricted.
Price: $300.00
WW 495
Collection of 42 letters from Lieutenant Guilio Lagonegro, while a POW (#27221) at Camp 28 in Bombay. The letters are dated from 1941-1943 and all mailed to his family in Naples.
Price: $1200.00
WW 494
Rare Italian Social Republic poster Here are the "Liberators". Shows the English using local Commonwealth populations as cannon fodder. Repaired. Size 70x100cm. SOLD
Price: $1200.00
WW 493
Rare anti-communist Italian Social Republic poster. “From the katyn pit to the Istrian "foibe". In Istria and in the very Italian Dalmatia hundreds of Italians were barbarously murdered by bloodthirsty communist Slavs.” Size 68x100cm.
Price: $990.00
WW 492
Rare anti-America Italian Social Republic poster. “The Unarmed Civil Centers of Italy Communicated to President Roosevelt the Latest Prowess of His Airmen”. Size 47x100cm.
Price: $990.00
WW 487
Rare Italian Social Republica poster. It shows King Victor Emmanuel and Badoglio welcoming the Americans. It reads: We deny the enemy the honor of having invaded our homeland with the victory of his arms: Only cowardly betrayal has opened the doors to him. Size 35x48cm. B
Price: $800.00
WW 486
Rare 1919 auction catalogue in French and Arabic. It is auctioning off household goods from the Sultan and royal families to help support the wounded soldiers and their families. Front cover missing. Beautiful lithography. B
Price: $300.00
WW 485
Complete 42-page booklet on World War 1, published in Turkey, in 5 languages, with front and back text in Arabic script Pro-German. B
Price: $300.00
WW 484
Rare 1943 issue of Amcabey with cover showing a defiant Mussolini as Italy is covered up between the Germans, Americans and British. B
Price: $90.00
WW 483
Group of 4 Akbaba magazines, 1935-1943. All anti-axis cartoons on the cover. B
Price: $360.00
PL 066
Four press photos of World War 1 in Mesopotamia. All captioned on reverse. B
Price: $180.00
WW 463
WW 463
WW 463
Rare collection of 6 photos on postcard stock of Italian POW’s in India. Named POW’s on reverse. Also two POW personnel files while incarcerated. B
Price: $150.00