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21841 Click for more photos | Italy. 1943 8th Army in Italy Unofficial medals, 2 diff. Both with similar obverses depicting Bay of Naples with a smoking Mt Vesuvius in background & '8th Army' above, one with 2 sailboats on the Bay, the other without. Reverses differ: 'Commemorative medal of entrance of British Army in Italy 10 July 1943' & 'Commemorative medal of the entrance of the Allied Armies in Naples 1st October 1943'. Both on ribbons of the correct Type (ie Italian 'March on Rome') but of nylon weave. EF. Evidently manufactured as a series (including US 5th Army ) by an Italian medalist after the allied invasion. (2) | SOLD at A$70 |
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