Original Item. Only One Available. This is an interesting original Italian Fascist-era aluminum wall plaque dated 1929, Anno VII, mounted to a wooden display board. The plaque depicts a fasces incorporating a lion's head and bears both Roman and Arabic-era dating in the form ANNO VII and MCMXXIX. The fasces, a bound bundle of rods commonly incorporating an axe, originated as a symbol of authority in ancient Italy and Rome and was later adopted as a principal emblem of the Italian Fascist movement.

This example is entirely correct for the Italian Fascists during the Pre-WWII to WWII period. This lovely aluminum plaque appears to have been made in 1929, the 7th year of the Italian Fascist regime. The plaque depicts the fasces with a lion’s head and the text:

ANNO
VII

MCM
XXIX

FLLI PERANI BRESCIA

The inscriptions identify the piece as dating to 1929, the seventh year of the Fascist Era, and the lower marking indicates manufacture by F.lli Perani of Brescia. The Fascist Era calendar was reckoned from October 28, 1922, and Anno VII extended from October 28, 1928 through October 27, 1929, making the two date markings consistent with one another.

The plaque has been mounted to a wooden board measuring 8 ¾ x 12 ½” with the original hanging piece attached to the back. The back of the wood piece is inscribed:

SUDANO FRANCESCO
VEFERE SCRITTO
DIETRO IL FASCIO

Francesco Sudano
Written Evidence
Behind the Fascio

This may denote there is a marking on the back of the fasces itself, but we could not take it off to check. The back hanging piece is inscribed S F.

The fasces had a much older history than its twentieth-century political use. In ancient Rome it served as an emblem associated with the authority and jurisdiction of magistrates, traditionally represented by a bundle of rods bound around an axe. Italian Fascism deliberately revived the symbol as a visual reference to Roman authority, discipline, and state power, and it became one of the most recognizable emblems used on Fascist-era architecture, monuments, plaques, uniforms, and official objects.

This dated 1929 / Anno VII example is particularly useful as a period decorative artifact because it retains its maker marking, original wooden presentation board, hanging hardware, and an intriguing contemporary or later inscription on the reverse. The FLLI PERANI BRESCIA marking provides a direct manufacturing association with Brescia, while the reverse inscription suggests that additional information may remain concealed behind the plaque. Its construction, dated inscriptions, and surviving display mount make it a representative example of Italian Fascist-era decorative material from the late 1920s.