France/Italy/UK 20th Century Political Movements

EPM 003

Complete set of early 20th century German confectionary cards on the Franco-Prussian War. M

Price: $150.00

PCA 234PCA 234

UK communist party 16 page publication titled “Episodes from the Communist Party’s Thirty Years of Struggle”. Discusses efforts during the Spanish Civil War as well. m

Price: $90.00

PCA 227

1958 Italian poster for the Christian Democrats. It shows Hungarian patriots being hung during the 1956 uprising against the Soviets. The caption reads: because this does not happen in Italy. Size: 70x100cm. m

Price: $550.00

PCA 226

1958 Italian poster for the Christian Democrats. It reads: don’t upset the balance. reflect on the dangerous results. Size: 100x140cm. m

Price: $600.00

PCA 225

Christian Democrat poster warning that voting for the PSI is a vote for the Communists. Size: 70x100cm. m

Price: $550.00

PCA 224

1958 Italian poster for the Christian Democrats. It reads: The PCI (Communist Party) is a rotten log on the path of Italian progress. Size: 70x100cm. m

Price: $550.00

EPM 032EPM 032

A set of 9 different public school student report cards, from 1932-1942. All filled in. The covers of each are fascist propaganda. M AH

Price: $540.00

PCA 217

Italian poster for the Socialist Party from the 1948 election. Size 75x105cm. m

Price: $450.00

PCA 216

1881 illustration glorifying Italy, from Don Pirloncino. Size 42x61cm. M

Price: $90.00

PCA 215

Italian fascist poster titled BATTAGLIA AUTARCHICA, showing success in various categories of agriculture. Size 35x100cm. M

Price: $450.00

PCA 202PCA 202

Official Photo album titled “ Propaganda Tour in the First Fascist Election 1924”. Shows the leaders Starace, Zaccaria, Pellizzari, Bono, Franco and Pisanelli touring cities in the province of Lecce. In Southern Italy. Towns visited include Lecce, Gallipoli, Nardo, Alessano, Poggiardo, Mesagne, San Pietro in Lama, Ugento, Tuglie, Salice, Cellino S. Marco, Gioia del Colle, Racale. The photographer was Cav. R. Carlino of Lecce. 36 photos in all. M

Price: $1400.00

PCA 202

PCA 202

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PCA 193PCA 193

Official photo album commemorating the state visit of Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano to Barcelona on July 11, 1939. Ciano arrived in Barcelona on July 11, 1939, to celebrate the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War. This highly publicized state visit was orchestrated alongside Spanish Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer to showcase the alliance and military ties between Fascist Italy and the newly established Francoist regime. Ciano disembarked at the port of Barcelona from the Italian cruiser Eugenio di Savoia. Barcelona, still recovering from civil war devastation, was highly decorated with large-scale imperial and Falangist symbols.  He inspected a guard of honor of Falangists and took the military salute from the balcony of the Palace of the Provincial Department.  Ciano was greeted by large crowds and attended a major concentration of young Falangists at the Montjuïc Stadium. During the visit, he also traveled to nearby Tarragona where he gifted a replica of the statue of Augustus to symbolize recognized Italian-Spanish imperial ambitions. The visit served to solidify the strategic and ideological bond between Italy and Spain, cementing a friendship that predated World War II.

Price: $300.00

Note: Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944) was Foreign Minister of Fascist Italy from 1936 until 1943 and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law. On 11 January 1944, Count Ciano was shot by firing squad at the behest of his father-in-law, Mussolini, under pressure from Nazi Germany.

PCA 193

PCA 193

PCA 193

PCA 193

PCA 187

Press release from the OAS date April 17, 1962, concerning the pardoning of FLN members following the death of Edmond Jouhaud. m

NOTE: Edmond Jules René Jouhaud was one of four French generals who briefly staged a putsch in Algeria in April 1961. Born  2 April 1905 in French Algeria, he was a descendant of early Algerian pioneers from Limoges, in France.

He entered the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1924. With the rank of commanding officer, Jouhaud led the resistance against German occupation in the region of Bordeaux since 1943. He fled to Britain in March 1944 to join the Free French Forces. As army general he had been the inspector general of the Air Force in French North Africa. After the failure of the putsch, he became the deputy of Raoul Salan in the Organisation armée secrète. While Salan fled to Spain, Jouhaud remained out of loyalty to his birthplace.

He had served as air force commander during France's war in Indochina and air force chief of staff in Algeria. He left the air force in 1960 and allied himself with French Army Gen. Raoul Salan, who shared his hatred for de Gaulle. Generals Maurice Challe and Andre Zeller joined them in a group that seized power in Algiers April 21, 1961, after de Gaulle agreed to negotiate on Algerian independence with National Liberation Front guerrillas. In Paris, the government handed out weapons in the streets and told citizens to be ready for an invasion of rebel troops from North Africa. But the coup fizzled in five days. Gen. Jouhaud went underground in the OAS—Organization Armee Secrete—which waged a campaign of killings and bombings in Algeria and mainland France, including several plots to kill de Gaulle.

Jouhaud was captured in March 1962 and sentenced to death by a military court. However, after his OAS superior, Salan, only received a life sentence, opinion turned against executing him. He called for the remaining activists of OAS to end their terrorist campaign, and, after a harrowing five-month period of uncertainty, his sentence was commuted by Charles de Gaulle. Salan was released from prison in December 1967, and pardoned in 1968. He was rehabilitated by a law passed in 1982 under the presidency of François Mitterrand. Jouhaud was one of the most decorated officers in the French military prior to participating in the putsch. He died on 4 September 1995.

Price: $60.00

PCA 184

PCA 184

PCA 184

Set of 24 French confectionary cards on the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War. M

Price: $480.00

PCA 124

FRENCH ANTI-COMMUNIST POSTER. It reads

FREE MAN REMEMBER!

17 JUIN 1953: EAST BERLIN . Soviet tanks opened fire on the Germans workers.

28 JUIN 1956: POZNAN . Polish Students and workers protest against persecution and terror of the communist regime.

November 4, 1956: HUNGARY . A people struggling for freedom. The Red Army kills Hungarians and crushes freedom.

HALT! the communist barbarism.

Size: 20 x 60. B AH

Price: $310.00

PTO 205Group of 8 photos of French politician Marcel Cachin (1869-1958). In 1891, Cachin joined Jules Guesde French Workers' Party (POF).PTO 205 In 1905, he joined the new French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and won election to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Seine in 1914. He rallied the national union during the First World War and was sent to Russia in a mission in 1917. However, in 1920 at the Tours Congress, he became one of the founders of the French Communist Party (SFIC) and joined the Third International. In 1923, he was jailed for denouncing the French occupation of the Ruhr and Morocco. As a strong supporter of the Popular Front, he refused to disavow the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and was removed from elected office in 1940.PTO 205 After the Liberation of France, he returned to the National Assembly until his death in 1958. He was the editor of the newspaper L'Humanite from 1918 to 1958. At the age of 88, he was the first foreigner to receive the Order of Lenin. M

Price: $180.00

PTO 205

PTO 205

PTO 205