1885 - SOC. ANONIMA PER L'INVENZIONE G. BIANCHI NUOVO SISTEMA DI VELATURA PER I PIROSCAFI - GENOVA
COSTITUITA IL 30 APRILE 1883

Magnificent front enriched by symbolic personifications, navigational instruments, decorative friezes and architectural elements. The gods of the sea and of transport - Neptune and Mercury - sit in the lower field; sailing ship - enclosed in a medallion - in the upper field. Effigies of the famous Italian navigators and explorers Marco Polo, Cristoforo Colombo, Giovanni da Verrazzano and Amerigo Vespucci.