Bidspirit auction | Italian telegrams, Naples and Campania
Italian telegrams, Naples and Campania 1936-1963: lot of 20 telegrams, most on advertising forms, including Fascist era forms (Cinzano, Barbisio, Lloyd Triestino), a July 1943 Italcable LAMPO telegram, a 1963 Italcable telegram from Tripoli, Libya, and 1950s Olivetti and TOTIP forms - Lot of 20 Italian telegrams, 1936-1963, most of them sent to or from Naples and other towns of Campania (Portici, Avellino, Caserta, Salerno, Marigliano): (1) Fascist era advertising forms (Mod. 30, forms of 1936-1939, Anno XIV-XVII), advertising Barbisio hats, Cinzano sparkling wine, the Banca Commerciale Italiana and its travellers' cheques, the Italia, Lloyd Triestino, Cosulich and Adriatica shipping lines, Zenith refrigerators, the Hotel Regina in Rome, rice, Genepesca, Idriz Erba powders for mineral water and the Warner Bros film L'AVORIO NERO with FREDERIC MARCH; and two forms with the red post office band FATEVI CORRENTISTI POSTALI; (2) the health insurance funds of Naples, 1936-1957: telegrams to the director of the Cassa Malattie at Palazzo Troise and to the Mutue Industria offices in Via Duomo, among them a summons of the employee Giorgio Salzano to the federation (FEDEMUTUE) in Rome and an order to take up his new post in Avellino at once, a request for an extension of leave from Carlantino (1937), a notice of absence because of a grandmother's grave illness with a VISTATO handstamp (1940), an Italcable LAMPO telegram to the Mutua Fascista of the Vomero district (21 July 1943) and thanks for the efforts on his hiring at INAM (1957); (3) 1953-1958, most of them to or from Portici: three telegrams of the Ministry of Education signed Di Domizio on the libera docenza examination boards in rural construction and agricultural mechanics, 1958 session, one of them handwritten; an urgent request for a copy of the 'decreto ministeriale istitutivo Centro Costruzioni'; and two telegrams from a Milan firm (Pavone) pressing for the payment of its invoices, one of them about a telegraphic remittance to the Banco di Napoli; (4) Banco di Napoli: an Italcable telegram from Tripoli, Libya, 13.4.1963, to the head of personnel of the bank, with Easter greetings from the staff of the Tripoli branch; and a telegram with the handstamp of the Marigliano branch, 1952, on a colour form advertising TOTIP and Sanremo; (5) 1950s forms advertising Olivetti: the Lettera 22 typewriter, the Summa 15 adding machine and the company's teleprinters; (6) personal and other telegrams: 'father in a serious operation, come at once' from Pegli (1953), 'my wife has given birth' (1953), a message from Piano di Sorrento to the Chamber of Commerce of Caserta with its receipt handstamp (1947), and a request from Rome to confirm a collaboration on an encyclopedia (1939 form). Condition: used, folds and stains, some with tears and small pieces missing at the edges, exactly as photographed. Units in lot: 20