Italy, Kingdom. A Lot of Wartime Propaganda Postcards
A lot of three wartime Italian propaganda postcards, including one depicting a full-colour illustration of a MVSN (Voluntary Militia for National Security) Blackshirt alongside a Sturmabteilung (SA) Brownshirt, each wielding daggers and clutching a black flag bearing an inscription of “DISPERATA” topped by a skull and crossbones, with a large group of soldiers advancing in the background beneath the flags of Italy, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Japan, and Spain, the reverse bearing a handwritten inscription from an Italian soldier stationed in Greece, dated 7 June 1942, addressed to a recipient in Germany, bearing the stamp of XXVI Army Corps (an occupation force based at the time in Ioannina, Greece, before its withdrawal later that year), certified with three stamps, also marked with the logos of the National Fascist Party and Italian Armed Forces, measuring 105 mm (w) x 150 mm (h), a researchable piece of wartime correspondence in extremely fine condition; one depicting a full-colour illustration of two Blackshirts clutching an identical flag, flanked by a German soldier wearing a NSDAP-style armband and wielding a rifle with bayonet extended, the group trampling on a red flag symbolizing communism, the reverse unused, marked with the logos of the National Fascist Party and the Italian Armed Forces, measuring 105 mm (w) x 148 mm (h), in extremely fine condition, and; one depicting a full-colour illustration of two Italian soldiers extracting teeth from a corpulent figure standing on top of a map of Great Britain (symbolizing John Bull), flanked by a date of “1941”, the reverse unused, marked with the logos of the National Fascist Party and Italian Armed Forces, measuring 105 mm (w) x 150 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.

