PALERMO SICILY ITALY Vintage Silver Travel Shield Charm

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Vintage Silver & Enamel Souvenir Travel Shield Bracelet Charm Location: PALERMO, SICILY, ITALY Scene: Palermo, Italy - Coat of Arms Description: Vintage Silver & Enamel Souvenir Travel Bracelet Shield Charm Measurements : Height : 5/8 inch Width : 1?2 inch Depth : 1/8 inch Weight: 1.0 grams Condition: Beautiful detail and in excellent condition for its age! Shipping : I'd be happy to combine shipping if you win more than one charm! About Shield Charms: History These sterling silver enamelled travel shield charms were popular with European, British and American travelers in the 1940's, 1950's 1960's, 1970's, and are highly collectible items today. The colorful vintage / retro look is very appealing to collectors and are quite the conversation piece. Some have a vintage patina and some look like they are brand new even if they are over 50 or 60 years old. They are wearable postcards and miniature works of art. Women documented their travels by collecting a souvenir shield charm depicting the town or country coat of arms crest, a scenic picture of the area, castles, a famous landmark (Eiffel Tower), building (White House), person from history (Mozart) or an event (Olympics). These charms were often given to women as gifts from their men who were traveling abroad.Palermo (Sicilian: Palermu, Greek: Panormus) is a historic city in southern Italy, the capital of the autonomous region Sicily and the province of Palermo. The city is noted for its rich history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is located in the north-west of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.The city was founded by the Phoenicians, but named by the Ancient Greeks as Panormus meaning all port. Palermo became part of the Roman Republic and eventually part of the Byzantine Empire, for over a thousand years. For a brief period it was under Muslim rule w it first became a capital. Following the Norman reconquest, Palermo would become capital of a new kingdom from 1130 to 1816 the Kingdom of Sicily. Eventually it would be united with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Two Sicilies until the Italian unification of 1860.The metropolitan area of Palermo is the fifth most populated in Italy and in the top eighty of the largest in all of Europe with around 1.2 million people. In the central area, the city itself has a population of around 670 thousand people, the inhabitants are known as Palermitans or poetically panormiti, the language spoke by its inhabitants is the Sicilian language.The religion of Roman Catholicism is highly important in Palermitan culture, the patron saint of the city is Saint Rosalia, her feast day on July 15 is perhaps the biggest social event in the city. The area attracts significant amounts of tourists each year and is widely known for its colourful fruit, vegetable and fish market at the heart of Palermo known as the Vucciria. eCharmony Vintage Enamel Travel Shield Charms Visit My eBay Store: echarmony Italy Vintage Silver & Enamel Souvenir Travel Shield Charms Bari, Italy - Coat of Arms Bari, Italy - Ship Bologna, Italy - Coat of Arms Bologna, Italy - Two Medieval Towers Catania, Italy - Coat of Arms Catania, Sicily, Italy - Piazza Duomo Firenze, Italy - Campanile di Giotto Firenze, Italy - Duomo & Campanile Giotto Firenze, Italy - Florentine Lily Firenze, Italy - Palazzo Vechio Firenze, Italy - Palazzo Vechio Firenze, Italy - Ponte Vecchio Genova, Italy - Coat of Arms Genova, Italy - La Lanterna Lighthouse Genova, Italy - Piazzo di Ferrari Fountain Gerona, Catalonia, Spain - Messina, Italy - Coat of Arms Messina, Italy - Port Protectress Milano Marittima, Italy Milano, Italy - Coat of Arms Milano, Italy - Coat of Arms Milano, Italy - Downtown Milano, Italy - Duomo Milano, Italy - Duomo Napoli, Italy - Naples Bay & Vesuvius Palermo, Italy - Coat of Arms Roma, Italy -... read more

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