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Post by smauggie on Aug 12, 2017 4:03:14 GMT
Postal Card for the Armed Forces
A WWII era postal card of a note sent home from a member of the armed forces. As the postal card is noted, "Posta Regia Marina". I am assuming that the sender was a member of the Italian Navy. I like this design with the two hexagons containing the arms of the House of Savoy, and the other stating that the postal card is free to use in Italy and its colonies. I wish I could make out all the wording in the cancel. Dividing the address and the sender information is some sort of rod with a rope wrapped around it. Anybody know what that is supposed to symbolize? 
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Anping
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Post by Anping on Aug 12, 2017 9:55:13 GMT
It's a variation on the original symbol of fascism; the fasces adopted by Benito Mussolini in Italy, from which the word fascist derives.
According to Wiki: This is an ancient Imperial Roman symbol of power carried by lictors in front of magistrates; a bundle of sticks featuring an axe, indicating the power over life and death. Before the Italian Fascists adopted the fasces, the symbol had been used by Italian political organizations of various political ideologies (ranging from socialist to nationalist), called Fascio ("leagues") as a symbol of strength through unity.
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Post by smauggie on Aug 12, 2017 11:27:10 GMT
You are right. I just would never recognize that as a fasces. I am more used to the following as fasces (without the shrubbery) from the US Mercury dime. For one thing the fasces on the postal card looks like one stick, not a bundle of sticks.  Of course they do feature on Italian stamps as well.  |
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Post by rex on Apr 15, 2020 16:17:41 GMT
Is a WWII. .. the postcard was stamped with an army franchise the 27.5.1941 .
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Post by daniel on Jun 23, 2022 23:49:07 GMT
A very attractive Italian Army Postcard used by a member of the 152nd Infantry Regiment. There are 3 markings, a regimental one in purple, a machine cancel from Trieste Central dated 22nd November 1920 and a third for San Remo for the following day. With the Angel of Peace depicted in front of Alliance flags.   |
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Post by daniel on Dec 1, 2022 2:18:09 GMT
Another postcard with a very attractive pictorial side with a gold embossed image of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. It is addressed to (name unclear) 4 Belgrave Place, which a very upmarket part of London.   |
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Post by ameis33 on Dec 3, 2022 22:03:23 GMT
Cara cugnata (? cognata, sister-in-law)
Ricordandola da Trieste civico (? it's pretty clear the meaning, i write or i give, but the word is not so clear)
i miei più cari saluti, anche
alla sua famiglia e a Baccicies (? That's the name of a people, but again not so clear)
atendo sue notizie
Saluti alla mia famiglia
e che ci dice che si ricordano
di me e che mi scrivono
Dear sister-in-law
Remembering you from Trieste i give
my best regards, to
her family too and Baccicies (?)
I await your news
Greetings to my family
and thay you tell them that they remember
me and to write to me
A few errors, but i believe at that time receiving such a letter was good enough to forgive it...
I can't help about the address of the second letter, but it has been sent from Bellagio, on the lake of Como, close to my home and a very wonderful place. The shape of the lake of Como is a kind of Y upside-down. Bellagio, (The "pearl" of the lake) is exactly if the center.
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