Navy and Pirates

NAV 117

Collection of 7 original posters by Imagerie Pellerin (Imagerie d’Epinal) as well as Imageries Reunies de Jarville-Nancy. This set has navy adventures as its core theme. SOLD

Price: $500.00

Note: The Imagerie d'Épinal ( Vosges ) was originally a printing house founded in 1796 by Jean-Charles Pellerin and where the first images of Épinal were engraved in series. Initially a craft , Epinal imagery gradually became a real industry . The techniques of engraving, pressing and stencilling, evolved over time, particularly around 1850 with the arrival of lithographic stones which revolutionized the printing technique in printing houses.From 1829 to 1845, the imagery celebrated the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte , his family, his marshals, his armies and his victories. Under the influence of Rousseauist thought , mid- nineteenth - century society began to see children as consumers. Riddles, dolls to assemble, and soldiers entered the catalog of imagery. This set is from this period. I can find no explanation of the origins of Imageries Reunies de Jarville-Nancy, but presumeably they were a competitor to Imagerie d’Epinal.

NAV 116

1966 chroma album Navios de Guerra. Ediciones A de D. Aribau 228, Barcelona. All 224 chromos present. Mint condition and rare as such. SOLD

Price: $400.00

NAV 115NAV 115

13 postcards of early 20th century ships of the Spanish navy. SOLD

Price: $300.00

NAV 114

Russo-Japanese postcard. SOLD

Price: $60.00

NAV 113

4 Italian propaganda postcards glorifying the Italian navy, 1913-1936. SOLD

Price: $240.00

NAV 112

1921 large format photo of Italian battleship R.M. Duilio. SOLD

Price: $30.00

Note: Duilio (often known as Caio Duilio) was an Italian Andrea Doria-class battleship that served in the Regia Marina during World War I and World War II. Duilio was laid down in February 1912, launched in April 1913, and completed in May 1916. Duilio saw no action during World War I owing to the inactivity of the Austro-Hungarian fleet during the conflict. She cruised the Mediterranean in the 1920s and was involved in the Corfu incident in 1923.

During World War II, she participated in numerous patrols and sorties into the Mediterranean, both to escort Italian convoys to North Africa and in attempts to catch the British Mediterranean Fleet. In November 1940, the British launched an air raid on Taranto; Duilio was hit by one torpedo launched by a Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber, which caused significant damage. Repairs lasted some five months, after which the ship returned to convoy escort duties. A fuel shortage immobilized the bulk of the Italian surface fleet in 1942, and Duilio remained out of service until the Italian surrender in September 1943. She was thereafter interned at Malta until 1944, when the Allies permitted her return to Italian waters. She survived the war, and continued to serve in the post-war Italian navy, primarily as a training ship. Duilio was placed in reserve for a final time in 1953; she remained in the Italian navy's inventory for another three years before she was stricken from the naval register in late 1956 and sold for scrapping the following year.

NAV 111

La Societa Veneziana di Navigazione a Vapore 1898-1936. Cenni Storici e Statistici. Historical and statistical notes of the Venetian Steam Navigation Company, 1895-1936. The shipping company founded in Venice on 28 December 1898 with the name Società Veneziana di Navigazione a Vapore was formed to counter the hegemony in the Adriatic of Lloyd Triestino, which at the time flew the Austrian flag. With the 1930 depression, financial hardship abounded. In 1932, Mussolini formed the State-funded Italia to which Lloyd Sabaudo, Libera Triestina, and Veneziana were added. This is probably a luxury edition with illustrations in the text and binding made by the sculptor and painter Francesco Scarpabolla, (Venice, 1902-1999). It is not found in Worldcat. The only copy I have been able to locate is in the Central Library of Generali Insurance – Trieste. SOLD

Price: $250.00

NAV 110NAV 110

11 early French chromos utilizing the navy as a theme to sell confectionary items. SOLD

Price: $220.00

NAV 109

Three photos of the Graf Spee and the Battle of the Rio de la Plata, December, 1939. SOLD

Price: $90.00

NAV 108

The sinking of the USS Lexington, May 8, 1942. This photo shows some of the 2,770 pesonnel that were evacuated. In total 216 crew members were killed. SOLD

Price: $30.00