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Set of 38 Italian humor postcards by G. Perol entitled 1919 The Peace Congress as Seen in Caricature. Shown are USA, India, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia, Australia, Romania, Italy, South Africa, Canada, England, Japan, France, Germany and Belgium. AH
Price: $1000.00
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Set of 10 Italian humor postcards by G. Perol entitled 1914-1918 Victors and Vanquished as Seen in Caricature. Shown are USA, Austria, England, France, Italy and Belgium. m AH
Price: $300.00
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Complete set of 12 Italian postcards produced in 1942 by illustrator A.G. Santagata for the Associazione Nazionale Mutilati e Invalidi di Guerra. m
Price: $600.00
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Complete set of 6 postcards issued, plus cover, produced in 1936 commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bersaglieri. M
Price: $400.00
Note: The Bersaglieri (Marksmen in English) are a corps of the Italian Army originally created by General Alessandro La Marmora on 18 June 1836 to serve in the Army of the Kingdom of Sardinia, later to become the Royal Italian Army. They have always been a high-mobility light infantry unit, and can still be recognized by the distinctive wide brimmed hat that they wear (only in dress uniform in modern times), decorated with black feathers. The feathers are usually applied to their combat helmets. Another distinctive trait of the Bersaglieri is the fast jog pace they keep on parades, instead of marching.
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Complete set of 10 Italian postcards from 1928 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Italian victory. Done for the Associazione Nazionale Combattenti. M
Price: $400.00
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Near complete set of World War 1 Italian humor postcards, produced in 1917. Artwork by Luigi Raemaekers. 60 cards in total. Series I, II, III, IV, V and VIII. Three original covers included as well, which is rare. AH B
Price: $900.00
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Collection of 38 letters from different POW’s in German camps during World War 1. Letters are to relatives in France, Italy, Tunisia and Algeria. M
Price: $380.00
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Collection of 5 POW letters from Marius Genot to his wife in Paris, from a German POW camp in 1941. ASK FOR AVAILABILITY
Price: $70.00
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WW 084Archive of letters from a French prisoner, Auguste Pomarede to his wife, Clarinde Pomarede living in Colombiers, Herault, France. He was a POW at a Camp W in Landshut, Germany, during World War 1 and was with the 12th Company of the 96th Infantry of the 16th Army Corp. There is also correspondence from Clarinde to Augustus before his capture. There is an additional group of correspondence from a French dragoon named Francois, in a hospital in Toulouse and elsewhere (perhaps her brother). There is also correspondence to her from the Association des parents des disparus et des prisonniers de Guerre, as well as other prisoner-related French institutuins during and after the war. 243 letters in all, of which 197 are from Auguste to his wife. He was quite prolific. The other letters make the collection that much richer. ASK FOR AVAILABILITY
Price: $2000.00
WW 081Photo album of a senior Italian officers (2nd lieutenant to captain from the uniform) funeral in Northern Italy during the Social Republica period. 21 photos. M
Price: $320.00
Note: The Italian Social Republic, (in Italian, Repubblica Sociale Italiana or RSI) was a puppet state of Nazi Germany during the later part of World War II (from 1943 until 1945). It was the second and last incarnation of the Fascist Italian state and it was led by Duce Benito Mussolini and his reformed Republican Fascist Party. The state declared Rome as its capital, but was de facto centered on Salò, a small town on Lake Garda, near Brescia, where Mussolini and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was headquartered.
WW 081 The RSI exercised nominal sovereignty in northern and central Italy, but was largely dependent on German troops to maintain control. In July 1943, after the Allied forces had pushed Italy out of North Africa and subsequently invaded Sicily, the Grand Fascist Council, with the support of King Victor Emmanuel III, had overthrown and arrested Mussolini. The new government began secret peace negotiations with the Allied powers. When an armistice was announced in September, Germany was prepared and quickly intervened. Germany seized control of the northern half of Italy, freed Mussolini and brought him to the German-occupied area to establish a satellite regime. The RSI was proclaimed on 23 September 1943. Although the RSI claimed most of the lands of Italy as rightfully belonging to it, it held political control over a vastly reduced portion of Italy. The RSI only received diplomatic recognition from Germany, Japan and their puppet states.
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 WW 077 | Collection of 314 letters from a French prisoner at Stalag IV in Germany, named Lieutenant Louis Duplat (prisoner number 1054) to his wife. They are dated 1940 to 1942. His wife lived in the “zone non occuppee” in the Loire. 160 of the documents are actual letters with content and the rest are documents confirming receipt of each itemized gift received by the prisoner from his wife. ASK FOR AVAILABILITY Price: $1800.00 |  WW 077 |
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13 Letters from German POW FREDO SUESS to his family in Germany, while in BRITISH POW CAMP 296. N. ROTHERHAM YORKSHIRE 1946 /47. Useful to study one mans feelings over time in a POW camp. M
Price: $300.00
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Complete set of 24 cards entitled United Nations at War. Originally issued in ice cream lids, this 1983 set is published by WTW Productions of Waldwick, NJ. Covers conflicts of the 20th century. ASK FOR AVAILABILITY
Price: $60.00
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WW 0671918 Group of 9 Letters to Captain H.G. Amis of the 5h Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, Prisoner of War on Danholm Island Stralsund Germany . The letters date from September 24 – October 31, all with the address "Capt. H.G. Amis York Regt. British Prisoner of War Offizer - Gefaugenenlager Stralsund Danholm Germany" and with the "Opened by Censor" stickers on back of the envelopes; the letters were written by Miss D. Beckton from Frinton-on-Sea Essex England and are usually a couple of pages in length, handwritten; giving news of local activity and her own work, hoping that Capt. Amis is receiving food parcels, imagining spending time with him once again, she is very self-deprecating, always hoping for more letters from him, expressing her love and affection; she feels stifled regarding her ability to openly express herself, probably knows her letters will be censored; at the same time she very cleverly intersperses her letters with much description of the local scenery, changes of season, crops, creatures, mutual friends and acquaintances and homely country activities - walks, berry picking, concerts, which hopefully succeeded in giving the incarcerated recipient a very good feeling of his home; evidently Capt. Amis had not received all of the parcels sent him - communications seems to have been much delayed with letters written by him on August 31 not received until October 30. This collection comes with some additional ephemera: an August 1918 typed note signed by H.E. Scott Captain for Infantry Records to H. Amis of Frinton-On-Sea Essex informing him (perhaps the father) that Capt. H.G. Amis is a Prisoner of War, with the dated rubber stamp of the record office in York; also a Field Service post card dated 1917 sent to D. Beckton, which is signed by H.G. Amis and a National Registration Identity Card with the stamped dates 1943 - 1949 for Dorothy A. Amis, noting various address changes – evidently the couple had married after his return from prison; some wear and soil, especially to envelopes & cards; the letters clean, in very good condition. M
Price: $490.00
Note: One of the regimental websites for this outfit notes that Capt. H.G. Amis was captured on May 27 1918, during the last major German offensive attack of the war. There was an island prisoner of war camp on the island of Danholm, a Hanseatic city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern located at the Southern coast of the Strelasund, a sound of the Baltic Sea. Amis' battalion was decimated, with many killed, lost, wounded.
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Original personal German diary, dated 1940. It contains 39 written pages and 15 photographs. Some of the entries span 1-3 pages. In the back of the book is one glued card, two loose German documents dated 1939 and 1940. All are related to Peter and Antie Andreson. I suspect that the owner of the diary was Antie Andreson. The typed letters give the authority to Antie Andreson to bear the title Lagergruppenfuehrerin (female youth leader) as well as her marriage to Peter Andresen. Also mentioned is a letter from Graf Fock (Duke) to her marriage. The congratulations to their marriage by Graf Fock indicates the Antie Andreson is from upper German society. The value of this diary is to understand how the war affected the daily life of an upper society German woman who was a youth leader, at a time when Germany was winning the war. M
Price: $590.00
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Two photos, one of Achille Starace and the other of Mussolini speaking before the Italian Parliament. M
Price: $100.00
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Set of 13 Spanish chocolate cards on leaders of World War 1. B
Price: $260.00
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Unusual complete set of 10 Spanish chocolate cards on the sea voyages of Kaiser Wilhelm II. It covers his trip to Constantinople and Halfa in 1898, visits to Norway, Kiel and Potsdam. Also shows the German navy in Kiou-Tschou and elsewhere. A rare set. B
Price: $200.00
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Die Deutsche Wehrmact, by German company Cigarette Bilderdienst, Dresden, 1936. Beautiful album showing all the German armed forces in 1936. Near complete with 269/270 cards present. Condition is very good. Much on all different aspects of the German Navy. B
Price: $400.00
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Complete set of puzzle postcards issued in World War 1 entitled La Gaite a la Caserne. M
Price: $500.00