| Hunting Tours by Carlo Perantoni, 1932 Feb. 1932: Victor Perantoni posing next to his game-catch from Victor Perantoni using Zeiss-Iconta auto-shutter on tripod. Original old photograph from family album of Victor Perantoni. Very old photo kept in reasonably good condition. Photo survived well while evacuating Poland to avoid the Third Reich's savage fury, and then stored 18 months under Allied aerial attacks in Mussolini's wartime kettle in northern Italy, and survived the total destruction of our native town. Then, it traveled to Australia and back to Europe and then to U.S.A. It's an old photograph kept in reasonably good condition. =============== Victor Perantoni photographer for events organized by his Prior to WWII Carlo Perantoni was honorary Vice Story characters of "Arrivederci Leopolis" and lead Carlo owned the "Winiarnia Italia" wine and pasta tavern in Lwow, Poland, and he often organized hunting parties and tours for Italian visitors. |
THE 3 COLLECTORS OF ALL OUR SALES
(See attached photo) - FROM LEFT, Carlo Perantoni and his two sons, Luigi and Victor, standing in front of the ‘Winiarnia Italia’ showing their new display of Italian wines just delivered by rail. The youngest, Victor, took the photo with his ‘Zeiss-Iconta auto shutter on tripod soon after unloading the delivery and dressing the front window, still in their work clothes. The photo was made into a postcard and sent to family relatives in their native alpine town in North Italy, Volargne di Dolcè.
HUNTING TOURS IN FORMER EAST POLAND
All the photographs are originals, developed, enlarged, and some made into copies at photography ateliers in the city of Lwow during the 1930s, prior to WWII.
DATES AND LOCATIONS are from captions handwritten on backsides of photos found in albums of Carlo, and of Luigi and Victor. Among the copies are conflicting dates and locations, explained by Victor as resulting from the photos brought to Italy after evacuating Poland in 1939, and afterwards put in each one’s album during 1940s. So, some memories might’ve been confused, explained Victor, pointing at the 3 albums manufactured in Italy. Our sales of each photo list the handwritten captions of dates and locations even if some copies are conflicting.
SIGNATURES OF CARLO & VICTOR found on backsides of some photographs were not intended to be official autographs.
ROMAN NUMERAL DATES had been an Italian tradition during the thriving 20 years of Mussolini’s fascism prior to his alliance with the Third Reich. The numerals count the years since Mussolini became Italy’s ‘Duce’ leader in 1922.
OUR FILM PROJECT
Several accounts about the lives and experiences of Carlo, Luigi, and Victor Perantoni in pre-war Poland have been published in film scripts and books since Victor's death in 2002. Among the titles are "Arrivederci Leopolis" -- "The Lion's War" -- "Filatelista Fascista" -- "Reprisal of Lions"-- and others. Their intriguing experiences in Poland and Italy during WWII are recounted as lead and supporting protagonist roles in the award-winning screenplay "The War of Lions" which is currently in film pre-production.
Victor Perantoni is the posthumous name of our family eBay store:
https://www.ebay.com/str/thewaroflionsfilmandphilately