Two battered survivors of the Golden Age of the American saloon postcard, these pre-linen cards from Albert Friedrich's legendary Buckhorn Saloon in San Antonio capture a world where trophy hunting and frontier hospitality were inseparable — the top card presents a breathtaking taxonomic spread of White-tailed deer heads, including three rare "deadlock" specimens (bucks whose antlers had locked in combat), while the bottom card plunges you behind the ornate bar of the East Wall, every inch of wall space crowded with mounted heads above a gleaming back bar stocked with bottles. Albert, the German immigrant saloonkeeper who began trading whiskey for antlers in 1881, built one of the most extraordinary natural history collections in the American Southwest, and these two numbered cards from his own illustrated souvenir book — No. 12 and No. 10 respectively — were sold on-site for 10 cents each, making them among the earliest venue-specific souvenir cards in Texas. Both cards show honest wear: creases, foxing, and surface soiling consistent with over a century of handling, yet the lithographic color and photographic detail remain legible and evocative.