A haunting and beautiful slice of Bosnian village life: four barefoot children — girls in headscarves and printed dresses, a boy in loose shirt — play and converse along the wooden paling fence of a Muslim cemetery (recognisable from the distinctive upright stele grave-markers visible between the slats), while a church or chapel peeks through bare trees on the hillside behind. The caption, Bosnien – Spielende Kinder am Friedhofzaune ("Bosnia – Children playing at the cemetery fence"), is a reminder that in these communities the graveyard was also a social space. Published by Verlag A. Thier of Sarajevo in the early Austro-Hungarian period — identifiable by the multilingual "Dopisna karta / Correspondenz-Karte / Levelezö-Lap / Carte Postale" back text — this is an early and particularly atmospheric example from one of the region's premier publishers.

• Caption: Bosnien – Spielende Kinder am Friedhofzaune
• Card no.: Not printed
• Publisher: Verlag A. Thier, Sarajevo
• Photographer: Unknown
• Series: Bosnian ethnographic / genre scenes
• Postmark: None (unused)
• Status: Unused; very good colour, light soiling verso upper left