Bidspirit auction | Travel Poster Malta Maltese Islands

Travel Poster Malta Maltese Islands Illustrated Map. Original vintage travel advertising poster featuring a colourful and detailed illustrated map of the Maltese islands of Malta, Comino and Gozo including images of historical landmarks and notable buildings with the towns and other places marked, a plan of Valletta with coat of arms and WWII letters on each side from Buckingham Palace and Franklin D. Roosevelt, For Gallantry above and a view of ships in front of the walls of The Grand Harbour in Valletta below, and people taking part in various sport and other activities on land and at sea including ball games, hunting, farming, polo on horses and water polo, scuba diving, swimming, sailing and fishing, transport by plane, boats and bus, a sun on the side below the stylised title scroll featuring a knight, a battle scene of an attack on World War Two convoys at sea, framed by a decorative border of oranges with coats of arms and Maltese cross emblems on top of the fruit and leaves. Horizontal. Good condition, creases on the image and on edges. Country of issue: Italy, designer: Aldo Ciqheri, size (cm): 55x68, year of printing: 1950s.