Brilliant ochre and crimson lateen sails billow before the gilded domes of Santa Maria della Salute as a lone gondolier poles his black craft across the shimmering Basin of San Marco in this vivid colour-printed artistic postcard of Venice, postmarked 27 June 1938 and sent from Rome to Athens. The card captures the eternal Venetian scene — Chiesa della Salute, the great Baroque votive church completed in 1687 by Baldassare Longhena, framed by the colourful working sails of traditional Venetian fishing boats — in the warm painterly style of the popular Raphael Tuck "Oilette" tradition. The reverse carries a lively handwritten message from a traveller named Rome (possibly a nickname) to "E.H." in Athens, Greece, describing yellow sails, a stop at the Britannia, a good trip, and an overcrowded boat that "stopped at every port." Postmarked Venice (VENEZIA) 27.VI.38 XVI — the Roman numeral XVI denoting the 16th year of the Fascist Era (anno XVI E.F., i.e., 1938). A red Italian stamp is visible, partially obliterated, alongside a striking machine cancel advertising the I Mostra del Dopolavoro — the First Exhibition of the Fascist leisure organization OND (Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro) — held in Rome, 24 May [1938]. This cancel alone makes the card historically significant.