A.C. MILAN Wearing Fascist Emblems - Italy Soccer Team, Lwow Poland 15 Sept 1934

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A.C. MILAN Wearing Fascist Emblems - Italy Soccer Team, Lwow Poland 15 Sept 1934:
$628.43

This listing provides one single original photographapprox 5.5 x 3.5 inches / 13.5 x 8.75 cm.

The Italian Soccer Team A.C. Milan

Wearing Fascist Emblems, at game in

Lwow, Poland, (now Lviv Ukraine)

on15 September 1934

International Friendship Game

in Lwow (Leopoli) Poland

Photograph taken by Victor Perantoni

POGON LEOPOLI vs MILAN 5-3 Da sinistra: Perversi, Cresta, Bortoletti, Compiani (seminascosto), Rigotti, Capitanio, Rossi, Mascheroni, Moretti, Bonetti, Clerici (massaggiatore), Arcari III. Accosciati: Sternisa (?), Romani, Stella, P. Silvestri, Bonizzoni. (Foto per gentile concessione di Giorgio Pierantoni. Didascalia di Luigi La Rocca e Ivano Michetti)

MORE INFORMATION: style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">MORE INFORMATION: di immagini inviato a Maglia Rossonera da Giorgio Pierantoni, che chiede informazioni circa il doppio scudetto presente sulla maglia dei giocatori del Milan. Lo storico Luigi La Rocca spiega che in epoca fascista era consuetudine giocare all\'estero mostrando il simbolo del regime italiano. Quindi compare, oltre al classico scudetto di Milano (croce di San Giorgio, rossa in campo bianco), anche quello con il fascio Littorio.

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DESCRIPTION: This isthe authentic original photograph taken by Victor Perantoni on 15 September 1934in Leopoli (Lwow Poland) where Victor and his father (Carlo Perantoni) often hosted Italian celebrities traveling through Central Europe prior to the war.
This part of Eastern Poland became Soviet Ukraine after WWII, and then Lwow was renamed Lviv, in Ukrainian. The original Italian name for this city was Leopoli, and in German it was Lemberg(Leopolis in Ancient Latin).Lwow, Lvov, and Lviv all mean the same: \"Lions\", while Leopoli and Lemberg mean \"city of Lions\".The Perantoni Family\'s store \"The Lion\'s War\" is named after this historic city ...
Please visit our store at http://stores..com/The-Lions-War

Victor and Carlo owned and operated the “Winiarnia Italia” Inn, also known as Carlo Perantoni’s Wine and Pasta Tavern, in Lwow Poland. In 1920, prior to the Fascist period, Carlo was appointed as Honorary Vice Consul for Italian Foreign affairs in South Eastern Poland, by authority of King Victor Emanuel III. Consequently their tavern became distinguished among Italian travelers. It was a well-known social Inn frequented by artists, academics, sports celebrities, and especially Italian visitors. In the photo, Carlo Perantoni is standingfourthfrom left (bald man in dark suit, with dark mustaches)

The photograph measures approximately 5½ x 3½ inches (about 13½ x 8¾ centimeters). It is the original photograph, and acopy of it wasmailed to the A.C. Milan team. Soon afterwardswasit published in Italy\'s sports magazine \"IL Ciclismo e il Calcio Illustrato.\"

This isan interesting and rarephotograph which showsItaly’s Fascist emblemsworn adjacent to the Milan emblemson the player’s shirts. Zoom to the background to see many spectators taking pictures, and count the spectators climbing up on the trees.

More details of the photographer (Victor Perantoni) and this photograph can be seen in “Tour Old Lwow” at ... ... and other details can be seen at www.lionswar.com... Even more is in the narration of our recent book \"Arrivederci Leopolis. The Lion\'s War\" published by Amazon.

Victor’s collections are currently being listed for sale in our store “The Lion’s War”, and you can read more about Victor and about his collections on our blogsite: www.lionswar.com ... and also in the accounts of our family history recently published by Amazon : “Arrivederci Leopolis. The Lion’s War.”

BACKGROUND: Carlo Perantoni and his two sons, Victor and Luigi, operated a successful import-export business of fine Italian wines. The export business was anchored in Carlo’s native town Volargne di Dolce’ in Valpolicella North Italy, and the import business was anchored in the city of Lwow Poland (Lviv Ukraine, today), the city where Victor and Luigi were born. There, in Lwow Poland, the family operated the ‘Winiarnia Italia Wine and Pasta Tavern’, which also served as a field office for the “Societa’ Esportazioni Vini Italiani” (S.E.V.I.), and was also the regional office for Warsaw’s Italian Consulate, for which Carlo Perantoni had been appointed Honorary Vice Consul. These functions kept the family very busy during the 1930’s, and usually at least one family member was traveling throughout Europe by train to conduct the various facets of their import-export business. Victor’s father, Carlo, and his older brother, Luigi, contributed to Victor’s collections by having provided many of the coins and philately obtained by their tavern’s clientele, and by fellow collectors met during their various travels throughout Europe.

These collections are currently being listed for sale in our store “The Lion’s War”, and you can read more about Victor and about his collections on our blogsite: www.lionswar.com ... and also in the accounts of our family history recently published by Amazon : “Arrivederci Leopolis. The Lion’s War.”

The 1930\'s were Victor\'s best years. As the son of an Italian wine importer-exporter he travelled extensively from his birth town Lwow (Poland) to his second hometown Volargne (Italy), and to many other parts of Europe. His memoirs narrate that although his travels were for the wine business his primary focus were philately and friends, especially girlfriends! It all came to an abrupt end on 1 September 1939 when Nazi Germany attacked his beloved land Poland. That\'s when the Perantoni family had to relocate back to Italy permanently. They returned to his father’s native town, Volargne di Dolce, but on 21 November 1944 the town was completely destroyed by a terrible military explosion caused by the Germans and the Allies alike. So they relocated their wine business to nearby city of Mantova (\"Arrivederci Leopolis. The Lion\'s War\")

ONWARDS TO AUSTRALIA: After the conclusion of WWII, Victor became very frustrated by his inability to return to his beloved Lwow-Leopolis (Poland) due to the Cold War and by the establishment of an \'Iron Curtain\' At the same time he had become very disillusioned and disappointed over the corruption and the inefficiency of Italy\'s troublesome multi-party government. Even though the war had ended, the years 1945 to 1949 were difficult years for Victor, so then he decided to leave Italy and to relocate as far as possible from what he called \"a disastrous Europe\"! In 1950 he took his young family to live in Australia.

Once settled in the quiet neighborhood of Strathmore (Essendon) Victor resumed collecting stamps, postcards, correspondence, coins, photography and other collectibles presently being listed on .

While living ‘down under’ Victor kept a very close connection to the changing philatelic scene in Europe, and he always kept in close contact with his Italian philatelic friends. At the same time, however, he was gradually losing contact with his Polish philatelic friends due to the Cold War’s ‘Iron Curtain’ which made correspondence between the Soviet Union to Anglo American countries, such as Australia, to be almost impossible. So, from Italy Carlo and Luigi were able to maintain sparse communications to Poland, and to the Eastern Galicia region which now had become Ukraine, thus obtaining news from friends of their beloved Lwow-Leopolis, now living under Soviet oppression (more in our book \"Arrivederci Leopolis. The Lion\'s War\")

FORWARD TO AMERICA: Victor arrived with his young family in the United States a few months after President Kennedy’s murder. The tragic occurrence saddened Victor who had envisioned the United States …“America” as he called it … to be a land safe from the ugly realities he had experienced under fascism and communism. But what happened in Dallas on that noon hour of 22 November 1963 ruptured his idealistic hopes. He settled his family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and he soon began trading Polish and Italian stamps for United States stamps and coins, seeking to bring his collections up to date in his new homeland. Many of the pre-1960’s stamps and coins being listed on our family store “The Lion’s War” were obtained by Victor at stamp meetings and swap fairs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, about 1964 and later.

PHOTOGRAPHY: In addition to being a passionate collector, Victor became an avid photographer from the day his father Carlo gave him a Zeiss-Ikon-Ikonta foldout photo camera on his 16birthday. His favorite subjects were people. Victor has taken hundreds photos of people from 1928 until the mid-1970’s, using the same Zeiss foldout camera which he usually stood on a tripod using automatic shutter so that he could be in the picture with his subjects. Today his Zeiss camera and photographs are being listed for sale on our family store “The Lion’s War” and may be reviewed in bulk on Victor’s blog at www.lionswar.com .