{"title":"Postcards","description":"\u003cp\u003eA postcard is rarely just an image. Sometimes the meaning lies on the reverse, an address, a date, a handwriting, sometimes an entire life in a few lines. Sometimes it lies on the front: a hand-coloured lady, a museum sculpture, a spa town long since gone. Sent or unsent, each card is a small window onto a life we will never fully know, not a catalogue item, but a carrier of stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"postcard-grottes-de-han-pont-salle-darmes-nels","title":"Postcard Grottes de Han, Le Pont de la Salle d'Armes, Nels, interwar period","description":"\u003cp\u003ePostcard in sepia collotype depicting Le Pont de la Salle d'Armes in the Grottes de Han-sur-Lesse, published by Nels in Brussels as number 14. Visitors in winter attire cross the bridge while burning torches in the foreground and background pick out the rough rock walls of the cavern. The card is unposted and in good condition, with a fine grain to the paper and a small printing mark along the lower edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe caves of Han-sur-Lesse are among the oldest tourist destinations in Belgium and were opened commercially to the public from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Nels, founded by Edouard Nels and later continued by Ern. Thill, became one of the principal Belgian postcard publishers during the first half of the twentieth century, with a catalogue ranging from city views to churches, castles and natural sites. The dramatised torchlight seen on this card belongs to the established visual vocabulary through which the subterranean world of Han was presented to the interwar public.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56685924942148,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/img20260413_12105556_0002.jpg?v=1776784750"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-drachenfels-aan-de-rijn-max-wipperling-elberfeld-vroeg-interbellum","title":"Postcard Drachenfels on the Rhine, Max Wipperling Elberfeld, early interwar period","description":"\u003cp\u003ePostcard depicting the ruin of Burg Drachenfels on the Rhine in hand-coloured lithograph, published by Max Wipperling in Elberfeld under number 5465. The composition shows the medieval tower on the rocky summit of the Drachenfels against a sky of pastel pink and soft blue, with dense foliage in darker tones across the foreground. The caption reads \"DER RHEIN. Ruine Drachenfels\" in classical type. The card is printed on rough tinted board, unposted and in good condition, with slight discolouration at the edges and a fine crease in the upper right corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Drachenfels near Konigswinter ranks among the most reproduced motifs of Rhine Romanticism, a touristic and literary tradition that reached its peak in the nineteenth century and continued well into the twentieth. Lord Byron invoked the mountain in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and generations of travellers ascended the summit by means of the Drachenfelsbahn, the oldest rack railway still in operation in Germany, inaugurated in 1883. Max Wipperling, publisher at Elberfeld, belonged to a dense network of German postcard publishers who, in the early twentieth century, recorded the landscapes and monuments of the Rhineland in substantial print runs. The Elberfeld imprint places the card before 1929, the year in which the city was absorbed into present-day Wuppertal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56686111490372,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/img20260413_12130395_0004.jpg?v=1776791785"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-altenahr-in-het-ahrdal-gutmann-coblenz-vroege-jaren-twintig","title":"Postcard Altenahr in the Ahr Valley, Gutmann Coblenz, early nineteen-twenties","description":"\u003cp\u003ePostcard in sepia halftone depicting a landscape near Altenahr in the Ahr valley, with a figure beside a young tree on the riverbank in the foreground and the ridgeline of the Eifel with scattered buildings in the background. The card is issued as a Gutmann's Karte, published by Kunstanstalt Fritz Gutmann in Coblenz, and carries a characteristic embossed frame with ornamented corners. The caption reads \"Partie bei Altenahr\" in elegant script. The card was posted from Altenahr to the Hennen family in Valkenburg in the southern Dutch province of Limburg, bearing a red 40 Pfennig Germania stamp and a handwritten pencil message on the reverse. Condition is good, with slight discolouration at the edges and handling marks consistent with postal circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ahr valley, where the Ahr flows through the Eifel toward the Rhine, was among the favoured destinations of German domestic tourism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, known for its viticulture, walking routes and romantic ruins. Altenahr formed a hub within the valley, its railway station serving as the starting point for the renowned Rotweinwanderweg. Kunstanstalt Fritz Gutmann in Coblenz was a regional publisher specialising in postcards of the Rhineland, the Eifel and the Moselle, with a recognisable series issued under the name Gutmann's Karte. The card's posting to Dutch Valkenburg in 1922 places it within the dense cross-border correspondence of the interwar period, when the Ahr valley represented a familiar holiday destination for Dutch visitors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56686117093700,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/img20260421_19291760_0195.jpg?v=1776792762"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-boppard-rheinufer-ottmar-zieher-munchen-vroege-jaren-twintig","title":"Postcard Boppard Rheinufer, Ottmar Zieher Munich, early nineteen-twenties","description":"\u003cp\u003ePostcard in Heliokolor colour print depicting the Rheinufer at Boppard, published as a Heliokolorkarte by Ottmar Zieher in Munich under number Z 5719. The composition shows the hotel promenade along the Rhine with its imposing Wilhelmine facades, a tree-lined quay, and on the river two steamships, including a passenger vessel of the Koln-Dusseldorfer Rheinschiffahrt. The caption \"Boppard. Rheinufer.\" appears in red italic in the upper right. The card was posted from Boppard with two Germania stamps of 20 and 60 Pfennig, addressed to Via Nova, Fauquemont in the southern Dutch province of Limburg. Condition is used, with discolouration, some staining on the reverse and light corner wear, the pictorial side remaining fully intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoppard, set within a broad bend of the Middle Rhine between Koblenz and Bingen, developed during the second half of the nineteenth century into a renowned spa town, known for its viticulture, sanatoria, and the daily arrival of Rhine steamships. The stately hotel facades visible on this card belonged to the fixed repertoire of urban views through which Boppard presented itself to the European travelling public. Ottmar Zieher, publisher in Munich, issued under the Heliokolorkarte name an extensive series of richly coloured topographical postcards, recognisable by their saturated chromatic treatment and careful composition. The card's posting to Valkenburg in Limburg forms part of the same cross-border correspondence that Dutch guests maintained with Rhineland destinations in the early interwar period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56686128595268,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/img20260417_21304806_0015.jpg?v=1776793243"},{"product_id":"kunstkaart-rodin-eeuwige-idool-egger-keulen","title":"Art card Auguste Rodin, The Eternal Idol, Verlag A. 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His work developed around a limited number of recurring motifs: the rider and horse, the Pomona as earthly female figure, the dancer, and the juggler. In his deliberately rough surfaces and archaising figuration, Etruscan and early medieval models resonate, reinterpreted within a modern language of fragility and presence. Giuditta, executed in 1945, belongs to the immediate post-war period during which Marini subjected his female figures to a rare intensity, held between classical calm and a nervous charge that absorbs the years of war and devastation. Verlag A. 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The scene shows a group of figures around a reclining female nude, with the dark silhouette of Faust on the left, faces and shadows emerging from the background, and spectral apparitions in the sky. The reverse carries the imprint Fabrication Francaise and a small circular publisher's mark. The card is unposted and in good condition, with mild discolouration and light handling marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenri Fantin-Latour, born at Grenoble in 1836 and died at Bure in 1904, was a French painter and lithographer who secured a lasting place in the art history of the late nineteenth century through his group portraits of the Parisian avant-garde and his floral still lifes. Less widely known but no less central to his output are his allegorical compositions around musical and literary themes, among which a substantial series of scenes inspired by Goethe's Faust, which he continued to elaborate in drawing, lithograph and painting from the eighteen-seventies until the end of his life. The composition reproduced here belongs to the Walpurgis Night and Sabbath scenes, in which Faust, led by Mephistopheles, descends into a world of spectres, visions and sensuous apparitions. 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The composition shows a standing female nude holding an antique water pitcher tilted over her shoulder, from which a stream of water falls into a basin at her feet, set within a dark rocky recess with leafy foliage. The caption reads \"Musee du Louvre\" and \"Ingres, La source\", with the publisher's mark B.C. The card is executed in fine rotogravure with a warm sepia tone, unposted, in good condition with slight edge discolouration and minimal handling marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLa Source is one of the emblematic works of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, on which he worked with long interruptions from around 1820 until its completion in 1856, the year in which he exhibited it at the age of seventy-six. The figure draws on an ancient iconographic tradition of the personified spring as a symbol of purity, youth and origin, yet carries that tradition, through the cool linearity and porcelain flesh tone characteristic of Ingres, into the first rank of the most widely reproduced nudes in nineteenth-century French painting. Braun et Compagnie, based at Dornach and Paris, was during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the official photographer of the French national museum collections, and issued in that capacity substantial series of postcards after works from the Louvre, the Luxembourg and Versailles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56686290108740,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/img20260417_21434345_0025.jpg?v=1776796565"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-firenze-battistero-edizioni-zb","title":"Postcard Florence Baptistery, Edizioni Z.B. 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The present structure was completed around 1128, but the origins of the building reach back to the fourth or fifth century, with parts long imagined by popular memory as Roman. The green and white marble facing, the purely octagonal plan and the three bronze doors, including the eastern door by Lorenzo Ghiberti which Michelangelo called the Porta del Paradiso, made the baptistery one of the obligatory stops of the Italian Grand Tour. Edizioni Z.B., active in Florence during the first half of the twentieth century, published postcards aimed at the international tourist market, with bilingual production imprints that made the card accessible to visitors from France, England and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56686307377476,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/img20260417_21451511_0027.jpg?v=1776797026"},{"product_id":"kunstkaart-durer-madonna-kind-uffizi-florence","title":"Art card Dürer, Virgin and Child, Uffizi Florence, early twentieth century\n","description":"\u003cp\u003eItalian art postcard in sepia collotype reproducing a detail of Albrecht Durer's Adoration of the Magi, showing the seated Virgin with the naked Christ Child. The detail is taken from the painting of 1504 held in the collection of the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. The card bears the caption Firenze, Galleria Uffizi, La Vergine, dettaglio dell'Adorazione de' Magi, followed by the italianised name form Durero Alberto. Printed under the number 2470 on paper carrying the Universal Postal Union international imprint on the reverse, without correspondence lines on the picture side. Unposted, in good condition with slight discolouration and minimal handling marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Adoration of the Magi was painted by Durer in 1504 as part of an altarpiece for Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, and entered the Uffizi collections in 1793. The seated Madonna in the detail is a portrait study of remarkable realism, in which the headscarf, the belt and the folds of the garment refer to the everyday bourgeois dress of Nuremberg around 1500 rather than to the stylised iconographic formulas of the late Gothic. The italianised form Durero Alberto, employed on this card, gradually disappeared from Italian printed matter after the First World War and helps to place the card in the years before 1918. Italian museum cards of this period were distributed on a large scale among visitors to the Uffizi, one of the most frequently visited art institutions of Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56686358724932,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/img20260417_21480004_0030.jpg?v=1776798361"},{"product_id":"kunstkaart-albani-apollo-daphne-louvre-neurdein","title":"Art card Albani, Apollo and Daphne, Louvre, Neurdein Frères Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrench art postcard in sepia collotype reproducing Apollo and Daphne, a painting by the Italian master Francesco Albani held in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, published by Neurdein Freres in Paris under number 1410. The composition shows the moment of the mythological pursuit: Daphne, on the left, flees before the approaching Apollo, while above to the right, among the clouds, Cupid has set the scene in motion with his bow. The caption gives the museum provenance, the school of origin, the artist's dates and his Italian nickname, l'Albane. The card is unposted; condition is used, with discolouration, some staining and paper of moderate thickness, the composition remaining fully legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Albani, born in Bologna in 1578 and died in the same city in 1660, belonged to the Bolognese school formed around the Carracci brothers, and worked in a classicising and graceful manner that earned him the nickname l'Albane. His mythological compositions set within landscape, with Apollo and Daphne as a recurring subject, were reproduced and collected well into the eighteenth century by European courts and art lovers. The Ovidian tale, drawn from the first book of the Metamorphoses, recounts how Apollo, struck by Eros with a golden arrow, conceives a vain love for the nymph Daphne, who, pierced by a leaden arrow from the same god, flees him until she is transformed into a laurel tree. 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The card was issued by Lapina in Paris under number 639, with multilingual captioning in French, Russian and Italian, and carries the characteristic Printed in Paris imprint and the orange-red correspondence layout on the reverse. The composition shows two nude female figures in a twilit wooded landscape beside a pool: on the left a seated flute player with red hair, on the right a standing figure leaning against a stone altar. Unposted, in used condition with the trace of an old label on the reverse and a slight mark on the face of the right-hand figure, the composition remaining fully legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJean-Jacques Henner, born at Bernwiller in 1829 and died in Paris in 1905, was an Alsatian painter who, within the academic milieu of late nineteenth-century Paris, devised a singular register of twilit forest nymphs, red-haired nudes and pastoral scenes of mythological cast. His work belongs to what would later be called dreaming academism, a tendency that set, against the sharper accents of naturalism and the vivid colour of impressionism, a contemplative counter-voice. The title Eglogue refers back to the ancient bucolic poem, a poetic genre which nineteenth-century painting summoned to evoke a timeless Arcadia. The Paris-based publisher Lapina specialised around 1905 in art cards with multilingual captioning, including Russian, in order to serve the European art traveller's market as far as the tsarist empire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56686461518148,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/img20260417_21541772_0034.jpg?v=1776803467"},{"product_id":"kunstkaart-angelica-kauffman-zelfportret-uffizi-florence","title":"Art card Angelica Kauffman, self-portrait, Uffizi Florence, early twentieth century","description":"\u003cp\u003eItalian art postcard in sepia collotype reproducing a detail of the self-portrait of Angelica Kauffman, painter active in London and Rome in the second half of the eighteenth century, held in the collection of the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. The card bears on the recto the caption Firenze, Galleria Uffizi, Ritratto di Angelica Hauffmann, dipinto da se stessa (Particolare), in the italianised name form Hauffmann current in Italian cataloguing of the early twentieth century. Printed under the number 2473 on paper carrying the Universal Postal Union international imprint on the reverse, without correspondence lines on the picture side. Unposted, in good condition with slight discolouration and minimal handling marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngelica Kauffman, born in Chur in 1741 and died in Rome in 1807, was a Swiss-Austrian painter who over the course of her life secured an exceptional position within the European academic milieu. After several years of work in Italy, she settled in London in 1766, where in 1768 she became one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts. Her self-portraits, several of which she herself presented to major collections, are among the most reproduced works of her output. The Uffizi example was personally given by Kauffman to the museum's collection of artists' self-portraits, a collection that since the seventeenth century has served as an honoured place for the painter's identity. 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The reverse bears a Deutsches Reich 15 Pfennig stamp from the Immanuel Kant series and the Bad Nauheim 31.5.27 postmark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sender — apparently a family member taking a spa cure in Bad Nauheim — writes that he has had to interrupt the bathing treatment for a few days but hopes to resume the following morning. The front of the card is covered in additional messages from uncle August, the Roemer and Smeets families, and a kiss from Hubert. Bad Nauheim was in the 1920s a renowned European spa, particularly known for its carbonic acid baths prescribed for cardiovascular conditions. 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The image shows the three large round arches of the loggia with the sculpture beneath, including Giambologna's \"Rape of the Sabine Women\" clearly visible on the right under the rightmost arch, and on the left one of the Medici lions. On the left side appears the side wall of the Palazzo Vecchio with access to the Uffizi. On the verso the caption reads \"Firenze - Loggia dei Lanzi\" and the publisher's mark \"Ediz. Z.B. - Firenze\", with the bilingual printing indication \"Imprimé en Italie \/ Printed in Italy\". The verso is unwritten and unposted. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Loggia dei Lanzi was built between 1376 and 1382 at the commission of the Signoria of Florence, to designs by Benci di Cione and Simone di Francesco Talenti, and served as a covered tribune for public ceremonies. The name came into use in the sixteenth century, in reference to the Landsknechte, the German lansquenets of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici who were stationed there. Since the end of the eighteenth century the arches have housed an open-air exhibition of Renaissance and Mannerist sculpture, with works by Giambologna, Benvenuto Cellini, Donatello and Bartolomeo Ammannati. Cellini's bronze Perseus holding the head of Medusa and Giambologna's marble Rape of the Sabine Women are among the best-known pieces. 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Published by Reinards-Hermans of Valkenburg under number M 3414 20. The verso bears a Dutch postage stamp of 12½ cent with the portrait of Queen Wilhelmina from the Bontkraag series and a postmark Valkenburg 1922. Addressed to Monsieur P. Girard, poste restante, Norderney in East Frisia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe card was not collected and bears the stamp \"nicht abgefordert. Postausgabe Norderney\", after which it was returned to the Netherlands, as evidenced by the handwritten note \"retour\" and the crossed-out \"Allemagne\". A red oval \"Porto\" stamp and the blue \"30\" refer to the return surcharge. The French-language message, in purple ink and partly in cross-writing, thanks the recipient for sweets and pralines and recalls memories of a pleasant stay in Valkenburg. Norderney was in the interwar period a popular North Sea spa town for the well-to-do of northwest Europe, and the double adventure of sending, non-collection and return makes this card a small document of interwar poste restante correspondence between the Netherlands and Germany. 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The image shows the river valley with its winding road, fields in the distance and on the left the Nonnenley rock formation, flanked by two large tree trunks in the foreground that frame the vantage point. At the top, the caption reads \"Ouren b. Burg Reuland. - Schibbachtal mit Nonnenley.\" The verso is unwritten and unposted, with a divided back. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOuren is a hamlet at the meeting point of three countries, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany, in the valley of the Our. When this card was published, the area still belonged to the German Empire as part of the Kreis Malmedy in the Rheinprovinz, which explains the exclusively German inscription on the card. After the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 the territory was ceded to Belgium and incorporated into the newly formed East Cantons, now the territory of the German-speaking Community. The Nonnenley, a rock formation in the Schibbachtal, is a favoured walking destination in the southern foothills of the Eifel. Postcards from this period show the area in its final years under German administration and document a region that would shortly afterwards adopt a different national identity without its language, landscapes or village names changing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694246179140,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-ouren-burg-reuland-schibbachtal-nonnenley.jpg?v=1777023636"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-burg-falkenstein-eifel-our-schoren","title":"Postcard Burg Falkenstein in the Eifel, ruins above the Our, C. Schoren Luxembourg ca. 1915","description":"\u003cp\u003ePostcard from the early twentieth century showing a black-and-white phototype of Burg Falkenstein in the German Eifel. The image shows the ruins of the high medieval spur castle on a steep rocky promontory above the Our valley, with the surviving residential tower and chapel walls on the right, and on the left the adjoining residential building still inhabited today. In the background, the hill country of the German-Luxembourgian border region. At the top left, the caption reads \"Falkenstein\". Published by C. Schoren, Photographe, based at 10 Rue Bourbon in Luxembourg-Gare, with the LUX publisher's mark at the bottom left of the verso. The verso is unwritten and unposted, with a divided back. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurg Falkenstein, first mentioned in 1173 as the seat of Ludovicus de Falcunstein, was one of the seven castles that secured the possessions of the County of Vianden in the Middle Ages, a territory then equivalent in size to today's Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The castle belonged to the Duchy of Luxembourg until the end of the eighteenth century and was destroyed by French troops in 1679. A partial reconstruction took place in 1685 under François Sébastien de la Gardelle. Today the residential tower, the residential building and the Romanesque chapel survive, and the castle is in private ownership. The river Our, which here forms a striking meander and serves as the border between Germany and Luxembourg, gave the castle its strategic position. Postcards of Falkenstein were published during the first decades of the twentieth century by both German and Luxembourgian photographers, this Luxembourg-side edition presenting the castle as part of the natural landscape of the border region.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694263120196,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-burg-falkenstein-eifel-our-schoren.jpg?v=1777024126"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-eisenbach-luxemburg-oslingdal","title":"Postcard Eisenbach Luxembourg, village view in the Oesling, Fr. Bettel ca. 1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eLuxembourgian postcard from the period around 1900 showing a tinted phototype of a general view of the hamlet of Eisenbach in the Oesling. The image shows the scattered farmhouses of the village among rolling hills, with in the foreground a path and a small stone bridge over the eponymous stream, the Eisenbach. At the top left, the place name \"Eisenbach\" in red lettering, and at the bottom the publisher's mark \"Verlag von Fr. Bettel, Handelsmann, Eisenbach\". The verso bears the indication \"Union Postale Universelle - Weltpostverein\" and \"Grand-Duché de Luxembourg - Grossherzogtum Luxemburg\", with an undivided back without a separation line between correspondence and address. The verso is blank and unposted. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe undivided back places this card before 1905, the year Luxembourg adopted the divided back approved by the Universal Postal Union, making it part of the first generation of Luxembourgian postcards. Eisenbach is a hamlet in the present-day municipality of Lac-de-la-Haute-Sûre, formerly part of Heiderscheid, situated in the north-western Oesling. Fr. 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The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe composition places two countries in a single image: Bivels, Luxembourgian territory in the municipality of Putscheid, in the foreground, and Burg Falkenstein, German territory in the municipality of Waldhof-Falkenstein in the Eifel, in the background. The river Our, barely visible between the two, forms the border here and traces the Ourschleife, a pronounced meander that gives this point in the landscape its singularity. Burg Falkenstein, first mentioned in 1173, was one of the seven castles securing the possessions of the County of Vianden and was destroyed by French troops in 1679. That the village has its church tower closer at hand than the castle above, and that both are held together in a single glance, gives this card its characteristic tension: everyday habitation below, medieval ruin above, a national border between them that no one in the picture seems to notice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694285599044,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-bivels-burg-falkenstein-our-schoren.jpg?v=1777024758"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-hollay-grot-petite-suisse-luxembourgeoise-mullertal","title":"Postcard Hollay cave in Petite Suisse luxembourgeoise, Mullerthal, P.C. 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The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Petite Suisse luxembourgeoise, also known as Mullerthal or Müllertal, is a sandstone landscape of deeply cut valleys, rock blocks and caves, situated between Echternach, Berdorf and Consdorf. During the first decades of the twentieth century, the region developed into a busy walking area for Luxembourgian and German tourists, associations and school excursions. The Hollay cave was one of the regular stops on the trails, and the soft sandstone inadvertently turned the cave walls into an archive of visitor names: choirs, associations, individual walkers and student groups immortalised their passage in engraved letters that accumulated from the late nineteenth century onward. 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The image shows the imposing sandstone wall with its characteristic horizontal erosion strata and irregular cuttings, flanked by slender birch trunks that grow through the frame. In the lower right, a small male figure with hat leaning against a tree trunk, serving as a scale reference and making the monumentality of the rock formation palpable. Below the image, the caption reads \"Petite Suisse luxembourgeoise Goldkaul\" with the LUX publisher's mark. Published by Kunstverlag P.C. Schoren in Luxembourg as number 47 in the Mullerthal Series. The verso is unwritten and unposted, with a divided back. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Goldkaul, located near Berdorf in the heart of the Petite Suisse luxembourgeoise, is among the most photographed sandstone formations of the Mullerthal. 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The photographer places the figure against the rock wall here as a conscious compositional technique: the human scale makes geological time palpable, and the birch trunks fragment the picture plane in a way that recalls Japanese woodblock prints more than classical topographical photography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694303981892,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-goldkaul-petite-suisse-luxembourgeoise-mullertal.jpg?v=1777025630"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-burcht-beaufort-petite-suisse-luxembourgeoise","title":"Postcard Beaufort Castle, Petite Suisse luxembourgeoise, Sulzbach Saar ca. 1903","description":"\u003cp\u003ePostcard from the early twentieth century showing a black-and-white phototype of Beaufort Castle in the Petite Suisse luxembourgeoise. The image shows on the right the imposing ruins of the medieval castle with its surviving towers and wall fragments, and on the left the adjoining Renaissance château of 1649, which Johann de Beck had built next to the already ruined old castle. In the foreground two white farmhouses and a large sandstone block on which a small figure stands, serving as a scale reference for the monumental setting. Below the image, the captions \"Petite Suisse luxembourgeoise.\" and \"BEAUFORT.\" Published by Kartonnagen-Fabrik und Kunstdruckerei Sulzbach Saar under number 2941. The verso bears a multilingual header in seven languages with the indication \"Schreibraum gültig im inneren deutschen Verkehr\", a German regulation which before 1905 stipulated that only the address could appear on the verso, placing this card in the transitional period around 1902 to 1905. The verso is unwritten and unposted. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeaufort Castle dates back to the eleventh century and was enlarged in successive phases to become one of the most imposing medieval castles of Luxembourg. During the Thirty Years' War it was severely damaged and became largely uninhabitable. In 1649 Johann de Beck, Count of Beaufort, had the new Renaissance château built next to the old ruin, choosing explicitly juxtaposition rather than rebuilding, so that both temporal strata would remain visible side by side. The Kartonnagen-Fabrik at Sulzbach in the Saarland was in the first years of the twentieth century among the specialised German houses supplying postcards for the broader European market, and the multilingual header in Czech, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, English and Dutch testifies to the international distribution for which this card was intended.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694320562500,"sku":null,"price":11.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-burcht-beaufort-petite-suisse-luxembourgeoise.jpg?v=1777027035"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-vianden-burcht-hockelsturm-fouhren","title":"Postcard Vianden with castle and Hockelsturm, view from the route de Fouhren","description":"\u003cp\u003eLuxembourgian postcard from the early twentieth century showing a black-and-white phototype of the town of Vianden seen from the road from Fouhren. The image shows in the upper left on its rocky promontory the famous Castle of Vianden, at the foot of the hill the roofs of the fortified town with its church tower in the centre, and on the right in middle distance the Hockelsturm, one of the original defensive towers of the medieval town wall. In the background, the rolling hill country of the Oesling. At the top, the bilingual caption \"Vianden. Vue de la route de Fouhren — Ansicht von der Fouhrenerstrasse.\" The verso bears the trilingual header \"Postkarte — Carte postale — Post Card\" and \"Weltpostverein — Union postale universelle\" in reddish-brown ink, with divided back. The verso is unwritten and unposted. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Castle of Vianden, built between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries on the foundations of a late Roman castellum, was for centuries the seat of the powerful Counts of Vianden, whose possessions extended over a territory equivalent to today's Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. After the marriage in 1264 of Henri I of Vianden to Marguerite of Courtenay, niece of the French king, the castle was rebuilt and enlarged in Gothic style. In the nineteenth century the complex fell into ruin and was partially dismantled between 1851 and 1852 by King William III, who sold it to local peasants who used stones and beams for their own construction. Major restorations did not begin until the second half of the twentieth century, which means this postcard shows the castle in a ruinous intermediate state, more monumental than ever through its very dilapidation. 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The image shows the monumental Art Deco façade of the hotel, with its rhythmically articulated verticals, wrought-iron balconies and characteristic corner towers crowned with baldachin-like constructions that give the building its signature silhouette. In the foreground, a still unfinished street, a wrought-iron gate and a small handcart, elements that underline the freshness of the just-inaugurated hotel. Beneath the image, the caption reads \"15527 c VITTEL — LE SPLENDID-HOTEL\". Published by Imprimerie et Éditions Braun et Cie in Mulhouse-Dornach in their Collection Les Vosges. The verso is unwritten and unposted, with a divided back. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLe Splendid Hôtel was inaugurated on 15 June 1930 in Vittel, one of the principal French spa towns, renowned since the nineteenth century for its mineral springs. The building was originally to be named \"La Renaissance\" but was rechristened Splendid shortly before the inauguration because of the exceptional view it offered over the spa park. The hotel stands in a series of grand spa hotels erected in Vittel during the nineteen-twenties and thirties, including the Hôtel Ermitage by Fernand César of 1929 and the Grand-Hôtel of 1912-1920 by Georges Walwein. The Art Deco style of the façade, with its ocean-liner verticality and geometric articulation, places the building in the French architectural current around 1930 that combined modern comfort with an architectural prestige aimed at seducing the wealthy international spa clientele. The publisher Braun et Cie at Mulhouse-Dornach, founded by Adolphe Braun in the nineteenth century, was among the most important French photographic houses and was renowned for the high technical quality of its postcards.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694330130756,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-vittel-splendid-hotel-art-deco-vogezen.jpg?v=1777027693"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-echternach-ernzerberg-bellwald-luxemburg","title":"Postcard Echternach seen from the Ernzerberg, J.M. Bellwald, Luxembourg","description":"\u003cp\u003eLuxembourgian postcard from the early twentieth century showing a black-and-white phototype of a general view of Echternach, the oldest town in Luxembourg, seen from the Ernzerberg on the German side of the Sauer. The image shows in the centre left the two towers of the Basilica of Saint Willibrord with the adjoining abbey complex, the dense town heart surrounding it, and at the bottom the Sauer river with the railway line running along the bank. In the background, the hills of the Luxembourgian-German border territory. At the top, the caption \"Echternach vom Ernzerberg gesehen\" in German lettering. Published by J.M. Bellwald in Echternach under number 27, with the bilingual header \"Grand-Duché de Luxembourg - Großherzogtum Luxemburg\" on the verso. The verso is unwritten and unposted, with a divided back. The card has a vertical fold down the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEchternach was founded in 698 by the Anglo-Saxon missionary Willibrord as a Benedictine monastery and developed into one of the most important religious centres of medieval Rhineland. The abbey church was rebuilt several times over the centuries and was severely damaged in 1944 during the Ardennes offensive, before being reconstructed in the nineteen-fifties. This card shows the basilica in its pre-war state, with the characteristic double-tower front that had dominated the town's profile since the eleventh century. Echternach is also known for its annual dancing procession at Whitsun, inscribed on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list since 2010. The photographer-publisher J.M. Bellwald, based in Echternach, systematically documented his town and its surroundings during the first decades of the twentieth century and is among the principal regional publishers of the Mullerthal area. The vantage point from the Ernzerberg, on the German side of the border river, gives the card a cross-border perspective typical of this region.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694338486596,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-echternach-ernzerberg-bellwald-luxemburg.jpg?v=1777028154"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-gorges-du-verdon-saint-maurin-yvon","title":"Postcard Gorges du Verdon at Saint-Maurin, La Douce France, Yvon Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrench postcard from the nineteen-twenties or thirties showing a sepia phototype of the Gorges du Verdon at Saint-Maurin in Provence. The image shows a solitary figure in dark suit and cap, seated on a rock at the edge of the gorge, gazing out over the valley. Below, the Verdon river winds between the limestone walls, and in the background rise the mountain ranges flanking the canyon. In the lower right of the image, the signature \"Yvon\". On the verso, the caption \"LA DOUCE FRANCE - PAYSAGES ET PIERRES DE PROVENCE - Les Gorges du Verdon à St-Morin\" with the number 3. Published by Edition d'Art Yvon in Paris, Fabrication française. The verso is unwritten and unposted. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gorges du Verdon is the deepest canyon in Europe, a gorge reaching in places seven hundred metres deep that the river Verdon has carved into the limestone of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Pierre Yves Petit, active under the pseudonym Yvon (1886-1969), was among the most important French photographer-publishers of the interwar period and was known for his pictorialist approach to landscape. His \"La Douce France\" series systematically documented the French regions in a sepia aesthetic that consciously returned to the photographic conventions of the late nineteenth century, with solitary figures, atmospheric lighting and literary composition. The figure on the rock is not a touristic accessory but a central compositional element: he places the observer in the landscape and lends the gorge its human scale. Saint-Maurin, a hamlet in the commune of La Palud-sur-Verdon on the northern Route des Crêtes, offers vantage points that in the nineteen-thirties were captured by Yvon and other pictorialist photographers as emblems of wild Provençal nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694354116932,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-gorges-du-verdon-saint-maurin-yvon.jpg?v=1777028500"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-burg-falkenstein-eifel-kapel-woonhuis-schoren","title":"Postcard Burg Falkenstein in the Eifel, close-up view with chapel and residential building, P.C. 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The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis view shows Burg Falkenstein in a degree of detail that systematically presents the three surviving main building parts: the residential tower, the residential building and the Romanesque chapel. The castle was first mentioned in 1173 as the seat of Ludovicus de Falcunstein and was among the seven castles that secured the possessions of the County of Vianden in the Middle Ages. After the destruction by French troops in 1679, François Sébastien de la Gardelle had a partial reconstruction carried out in 1685, during which the servants' house was restored. The combination of medieval ruin, Renaissance residential building and Romanesque chapel visible on this card makes Burg Falkenstein an architectural curiosity: three building periods coexist in a single complex. P.C. Schoren documented in his Edition artistique these castles of the Luxembourgian-German border region systematically, photographing each complex from several angles to fully capture its complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694400876868,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-burg-falkenstein-eifel-kapel-woonhuis-schoren.jpg?v=1777030273"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-florence-palazzo-vecchio-piazza-della-signoria","title":"Postcard Florence, Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria, Edizioni Z.B.","description":"\u003cp\u003eItalian postcard from the nineteen-twenties or thirties showing a sepia phototype of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, seen from the Piazza della Signoria. The image shows the monumental trecento façade of the palace with its crenellated cornice and arcaded gallery, surmounted by the Torre di Arnolfo rising ninety-four metres. In the lower left on the square the Neptune Fountain by Bartolomeo Ammannati, at the centre before the entrance the copy of Michelangelo's David, and on the right under the arch the Loggia dei Lanzi with its visible sculpture. On the square itself several pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage that mark the scale and early twentieth century atmosphere. On the verso the caption \"Firenze - Palazzo Vecchio.\" and the publisher's mark \"Ediz. Z.B. - Firenze\", with the bilingual printing indication \"Imprimé en Italie \/ Printed in Italy\". The verso is unwritten and unposted. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Palazzo Vecchio was built between 1299 and 1314 to designs by Arnolfo di Cambio as the seat of the Signoria of Florence, the council that governed the Florentine Republic. The massive rusticated masonry of roughly hewn pietra forte and the characteristic crenellations made the building an architectural statement of republican power. The Torre di Arnolfo, placed asymmetrically on the façade, became from its completion an immovable landmark of Florence. In 1540 Cosimo I de' Medici moved his court here, transforming the palace from a republican government building into a ducal residence; Giorgio Vasari carried out extensive interior alterations in the following years. Since 1872 the Palazzo Vecchio has again functioned as the town hall of Florence. The Piazza della Signoria around it has for centuries been the political and ceremonial heart of the city, where sentences were pronounced, the Medici were received, and Savonarola was burnt at the stake in 1498.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694405300548,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-florence-palazzo-vecchio-piazza-signoria.jpg?v=1777030615"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-kasteel-hoensbroek-1944-bevrijding-germaanse-symbolen","title":"Postcard Hoensbroek Castle, sent 9 October 1944, Germanic Symbols stamp","description":"\u003cp\u003eDutch postcard from the war years showing a sepia phototype of an interior detail of Hoensbroek Castle, the Meuse-region moated castle in South Limburg. The image shows a gallery with two heavy stone columns under rounded arches, and in the background a Renaissance portal with decorated framing. The photograph was taken by Hub. Leufkens, published by the Limburgsche Boek- en Kunsthandel at the Saroleastraat in Heerlen. On the recto, the handwritten caption \"Kasteel Hoensbroek\". The card has characteristic scalloped edges. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe verso bears a Dutch 5 cent green postage stamp from the \"Germanic Symbols\" series, NVPH number 411, designed by Pijke Koch and issued under German occupation in 1943. The series shows pan-Germanic motifs, here two rearing horses, and belongs among the politically and ideologically charged issues of the occupation period. The postmark Heerlen 9 October 1944 is postally remarkable: Heerlen was liberated on 17 September 1944 by American troops, and Valkenburg that same month, so that this card was sent three weeks after the liberation of both towns with an occupation stamp that remained in circulation because the liberated southern provinces did not yet have new stamps available. The card is addressed to Mrs J. Dresen, care of Hennen, Villa Via Nova in Valkenburg in Limburg. The handwritten message contains birthday congratulations: \"Mrs Dresen. Hearty congratulations on your birthday. I wish you many more years, and also good health. To both of you also hearty congratulations on your recovery. How do you feel now? As soon as the opportunity arises I will come to Valkenburg.\" The wording about \"recovery\" and \"as soon as opportunity arises\" refers to the circumstances of the first weeks after liberation, when travel between Heerlen and Valkenburg became possible again but not yet taken for granted. The Villa Via Nova in Valkenburg was during these years the home of the Hennen family, the same family that earlier in 1914 had received correspondence from Boppard on the Rhine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694411690308,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-kasteel-hoensbroek-1944-bevrijding.jpg?v=1777030931"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-orange-romeins-theater-provence-ideale-avignon","title":"Postcard Orange, Roman Theatre scaenae frons, Provence, Ed. Idéale Avignon","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrench postcard from the nineteen-twenties or thirties showing a black-and-white phototype of the Théâtre Romain in Orange, Provence. The image shows the monumental rear wall of the scaenae frons, the stage wall that forms the architectural boundary of the Roman theatre and is photographed here from the outside. On the right within the picture plane is printed an extensive French-language notice describing the history of the monument: construction under Julius Caesar by descendants of Roman colonists, length of one hundred and three metres and height of thirty-six metres, transformation into a fortress during the barbarian invasions, restoration under Charles X by the architect Auguste Caristie from 1835 onward, and annual summer performances by artists of the Comédie Française and the Opéra with the cooperation of the Orchestre Colonne. The famous saying of Louis XIV is also cited: \"C'est la plus belle muraille de mon royaume\". At the top left the indication \"1 bis ORANGE - Le Théâtre Romain\". Published by the Editions Artistiques \"Idéale\", with photograph by F. Beau in Avignon-Monclar. The verso is unwritten and unposted, with a divided back. The card is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Roman Theatre of Orange was built in the first century BC under the emperor Augustus and is among the best preserved Roman theatres in the world, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1981. The scaenae frons of one hundred and three metres long and thirty-six metres high is the only surviving intact example of this architectural form in Western Europe; comparable theatres in Italy and elsewhere have lost their stage wall. After the fall of the Roman Empire the theatre was used as a defensive work and later occupied by parasitic housing that was only cleared in the nineteenth century during the restoration campaign led by the architect Auguste Caristie. From 1869 performances were held there again, and since 1902 the Chorégies d'Orange, the annual summer festival of opera and classical music, constitute its regular programming. The publisher Editions Artistiques \"Idéale\" in Avignon-Monclar was among the regional Provençal postcard houses of the interwar period, with a catalogue concentrated on the Roman and medieval heritages of the Vaucluse and surrounding departments.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694761324868,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-orange-romeins-theater-provence-ideale.jpg?v=1777033532"},{"product_id":"ansichtkaart-hessische-schwalmer-klederdracht-bad-nauheim-1921","title":"Postcard Hessian Schwalm traditional costume, sent from Bad Nauheim 1921","description":"\u003cp\u003eGerman postcard from 1921 showing a hand-coloured photolithograph of Hessian girls in traditional costume, in a group view before a traditional half-timbered house. The image shows six girls in the characteristic Schwalmer Tracht from the Schwalm region of Hesse, recognisable by the red Stülpchen caps placed on the crown of the head and the black dresses with red embroidered hems and white aprons. One of the girls holds a doll in the same costume. In the background the typical Hessian half-timbered architecture with red-tiled roofs. On the verso the caption \"Hessische Trachten Nr. 250 - Spielende Kinder\" and the publisher's mark \"Kunstverlag: Gustav Mandt, Lauterbach, Hessen\", catalogue number 31895. The card shows folds and tears in the lower left corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Schwalmer Tracht, worn in the region around Ziegenhain and Schwalmstadt in North Hesse, is one of the most recognisable German regional costumes and was brought to international fame in the nineteenth century by the tales of the Brothers Grimm: the round red cap is said to have inspired the little red hood of Little Red Riding Hood, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm having known this costume closely during their residence in Kassel and their Hessian collecting journeys. The verso bears a bilingual Dutch-German address: Fräulein Johanna Hennen, Villa Via Nova, Valkenburg, Holland, with postmark of 29 July 1921 from a Hessian town. The sender stayed according to the handwritten message in a hotel in Bad Nauheim, the famous Hessian spa town renowned for its saline springs and cardiac cures. This card is the third documented in the archive addressed to the Hennen family at the Villa Via Nova in Valkenburg, following an earlier issue from Boppard on the Rhine from before the First World War and a Bad Nauheim sending from the interwar years, and preceding a birthday card from Heerlen after the liberation of 1944. Together these cards document a correspondence history spanning four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Collectionist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56694873522500,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/files\/ansichtkaart-hessische-schwalmer-klederdracht-bad-nauheim-1921.jpg?v=1777033937"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/1442\/9896\/collections\/img20260420_16450944_0042.jpg?v=1776855577","url":"https:\/\/thecollectionist.nl\/en\/collections\/postcards.oembed","provider":"The Collectionist","version":"1.0","type":"link"}