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The poster was designed by Dante Coscia for the Italian Social Republic, the German puppet government established in the north in 1943 after the Italian government, which had deposed Mussolini, signed an armistice with the Allies. Coscia, along with the better-known Gino Boccasile, was one of the republic's most prominent propagandists.

Hello! Here we have the terrible flag of the Volante Rossa "Martiri Partigiani", a communist terrorist group (with poor artistic skills) active in Italy in the aftermath of WW2. The first picture is a modern PNG rendition of the flag while the second shows the historical version for reference. Both files are found on Commons, here and here.

Hello! Here we have a flea market find: the italian edition of Frameshift by Robert J. Sawyer, published in 1998 in the popular Urania series. The fetus floating in the dark is quite bad but those giant DNA molecules are terrible.

Hello! Another banknote from the infamous hyperinflation crisis in the Weimar Republic in 1923. This one, just like the other one (20 million) I posted yesterday, is printed on one side only, but the overall quality seems a little better than the previous one.

Hello! I have this banknote from the infamous hyperinflation crisis in the Weimar Republic in 1923. It's a very simple banknote, printed only on one side on low quality paper, which makes sense since they needed to print as much money as they could in the fastest and cheapest way possible. Still a cool piece of history.

Picture found on Commons.

Hello! Here we have a flea market find: the italian edition of The Shattered Sphere by Roger MacBride Allen. Published in 1998 as a special issue in the popular Urania series. The cover art features a giant robot hand coming out from some kind of space hole and grabbing Earth. I've seen worse but it's still bad.

Hello! Here we have another flea market find from the Urania series, the most popular sci-fi editorial collection in Italy, established in 1952 and still existing today. For some reason this is slightly different from the original artwork (you can find the picture here) which in my opinion was better, but this is still cool to me. Despite winning the Urania Award in 1998 there was a debate as to wether the novel could be considered actual sci-fi or not; many readers consider it a techno-thriller.

Hello! Here we have a cool cover art for a book from the Urania series, the most popular sci-fi editorial collection in Italy, established in 1952 and still existing today. I found it at a flea market but didn't buy it so I don't know if the book is good or not.

Hello! I found this weird banknote from the Russian civil war. I have zero knowledge about Russian currency of that time and I don't speak Russian but the imagery didn't look bolshevik to me so it had to be related to the White Army. It is, apparently: Google Lens identified this as a Southern Russian Armed Forces banknote. I didn't even know the anti-bolshevik forces had their own currency and I have no idea if this was a lot of money or not. Anyway, a cool find you don't see everyday, even if it isn't much valuable today. I tried to translate it with Google Lens but the translation is basically gibberish so I guess it's not that good at translating from Russian. If anyone could help with that it would be appreciated!

Hello! Yesterday I finally watched the Backrooms movie. At the end of the projection the theater was empty and about to close and this is how the entrance hall looked like.

Hello! Here we have a gem from 1999. The book is an anthology with stories by several authors and was published in the Urania series, the most popular sci-fi editorial collection in Italy, established in 1952 and still active. The title literally means "...and don't forget to put your space suit on!". Maybe it's the art style, maybe it's the subject (regular furniture inside a space ship??), the cover looks very cheesy to me. A little easter egg: the book on the coffee table is an old issue of the Urania series, with the iconic layout from the previous decades featuring the artwork inside a red circle on a white background.