World War 1 & 2
WW 579Offerta oro all patria, along with the much rarer government receipt. B
Price: $500.00
NOTE FROM WIKIPEDIA: Oro alla Patria ("Gold to the Fatherland") was a 1935 Italian fascist campaign that asked Italians to donate their gold assets to fundraise for their homeland. Faced with League of Nations sanctions for its Second Italo-Ethiopian War, the Fascist government collected 250,000 wedding rings from Rome and 180,000 from Milan, amid other personal gold jewelry and objects totaling 33,600 kilograms of gold and 93,400 of silver. In acts of sacrifice for the state, prominent figures donated items of great symbolic value: the Queen's wedding ring, the Prince's collar of the Annunciation, the dramatist Luigi Pirandello's Nobel Prize, Guglielmo Marconi's senator medal, and Mussolini's Rocca delle Caminate castle statue busts.
Three anti-Flemish racist broadsides from the movement to liberate Wallonia from Flanders, during WW2. One is titled Programme du Front Wallon pour la Liberation du Pays, another is titled Declaration Fondamentale Du Gouvement de la Wallonie Libre and lastly Peuple Gaulois de Wallonie. The documents refer to the Flemish as a “lower caste” and calls for the country (Walloonia) to make solidarity. B
Price: $400.00
