Imperial China, Boxer Upraise 1901: Imperial Chinese Post 1 Cent postal-card.
Peking Deutsche Post 20/1 01 – cancellation.
Square violet strike: S. B. 1/l Oa. J. R. and Bestellt – strike. Good condition.
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1930: 1st Swiss Glider Flight. Litho Postcard by Verneuil:
“Attractive lithographed postcard. Artist signed MP. Verneuil, printed by H. Vontobeln, Feldmeilen. Most decorative design of children at a bonfire with Swiss flags.
Entire with an imprinted 40 cents stamp as Scott# C14.
” 1. Schweiz. Segelluftpost. 30. VIII 30. Bachtel ” – cancellation.
Bubikon, 31. VIII 30, Zurich – arrival strike. Scarce.”
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Old China, Tientsin: Tinted postcard with nice street view at the Japanese Concession. Tram, Rickshaw, police-man…
Franked with a 1 Sen stamp with China – imprint. Scarce cancellation ( phantasy strike ? ) .
Sent by a soldier of the 16th regiment of the Infanterie Coloniale, Arsenal de l’ Est , sent to Graz in Austria.
Very fine condition.
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Scarce, tripartite Chinese vintage postcard: Kilangsu-Amoy Full view. Franked with 2 stamps, one cancelled to order, tied by a bilingual Amoy 1922 – cancellation.
Unused, good condition, minor aging at left and right side.
Postcard after a photo by Ying Fong.
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Old Chinese postcard with 2 Chinese prisoners in Kangs and 6 western soldiers.
3 overprinted stamps.
From Shanghai to Tianjin to Poiters in France. Clear cancellations, good condition.
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Old Chinese postcard: “Unveiling of the Iltis Monument”. The postcard depicts the monument with 2 German marines.
Franked with a pair of 5 Pfennig overprinted stamps. Shanghai Deutsche Post 17/4 1899 – cancellation.
Sent as postcard to Freising in Bavaria. Lower left corner creased otherwise good condition.
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Vintage postcard “Der Krieg in China” (The War in China). The postcard depicts German ships, marines, a Chinese (Li Hong Zhang) and a satirical poem:
Li Hong Zhang, think twice,
don’t make us Germans angry,
’cause we Germans we can’t
take a joke – you will see!
Unused, light toning from age.
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Attractive Raphael Kirchner Postcard
Decorative Art Nouveau postcard by Raphael Kirchner. It is a scarcer one.
It depicts the portrait of a pretty young lady in a heart.
Artist signed: Raphael Kirchner Paris. B.K. W.I. 539. III
Good condition. A few lines at reverse but you used as postcard.
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Ca. 1910: Attractive, scarce, unusual Carnival Postcard. Most decorative lithographed postcard with a strange content: A Harlequin with sabre dominates the left side of the postcard. The right upper part shows a crowd in the street watching a burning house.
The inscription reads: “ 10,000 Gun Licenses. Prince Carnival is a humdinger this year „.
So what’s the story? Thieves stole 10.000 gun licenses from the magistrate in old Prague and set the house on fire afterwards.
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