Photos and Postcards

MPH 212

Commemorative postcard for gold medal for valor recipient Giuseppe Loctelli, who died heroically at Alam Abu Hileinat, November 19, 1940. B

Price: $40.00

MPH 210

4 snaps of desert life in Libya. B

Price: $20.00

MPH 206Rare set of 5 photos of the funeral of Italo Balbo. B

Price: $500.00

Note: Italo Balbo (6 June 1896 – 28 June 1940) was an Italian fascist politician and Blackshirts' leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force, Governor-General of Libya and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa. Due to his young age, he was sometimes seen as a possible successor of dictator Benito Mussolini. After serving in World War I, Balbo became the leading Fascist organizer in his home region of Ferrara. He was one of the four principal architects (Quadrumviri del Fascismo) of the March on Rome that brought Mussolini and the Fascists to power in 1922, along with Michele Bianchi, Emilio De Bono and Cesare Maria De Vecchi. In 1926, he began the task of building the Italian Royal Air Force and took a leading role in popularizing aviation in Italy, and promoting Italian aviation to the world. In 1933, perhaps to relieve tensions surrounding him in Italy, he was given the government of Italian Libya, where he resided for the remainder of his life. Balbo, hostile to antisemitism, was the only leading Fascist to oppose Mussolini's alliance with Nazi Germany. Early in World War II, he was accidentally killed by friendly fire when his plane was shot down over Tobruk by Italian anti-aircraft guns who misidentified it. B

MPH 205

Advert card for the Banco Italiana Perl Colonie. B

Price: $45.00

MPH 204

Two advert cards from Pastiglie Valda on Cirenaica and Tripolitania. B

Price: $90.00

MPH 202

Italian humor postcard showing a Turkish nobleman being chased by an Italian easter egg, with the caption, “happy easter”. B

Price: $50.00

MPH 199

Set of 7 photos on postcard stock titled Costumi Tripolitania. Shown are a travelling salesman of men’s clothing and accessories, punishment, travelling performers, female of Fezzan, woman with child, female of Ghadames. B

Price: $150.00

MDH 032MDH 032MDH 032Album of 23 photos on postcard stock of an Italian hospital caring for soldiers wounded in the 1911-1912 Libyan war. Each photo contains images of nurses or doctors. B

Price: $460.00

IEAPC 137

An Italian patriotic postcard of Libya, 1912. M

Price: $40.00

IEAPC 136

A 1937 postcard showing the Italian air force in Libya. M

Price: $90.00