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Postcard 1930s Souvenir de Gand Belgium Illustrated Girls Luggage Travel Art
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Pre-linen · 1935

Postcard 1930s Souvenir de Gand Belgium Illustrated Girls Luggage Travel Art

Ghent (Gand), Belgium1935Pre-linenFair-Good

Two cheerful girls — one in a golden lattice dress and scarlet beret, the other in a pink frock and matching cap — wave farewell beside a battered suitcase plastered with colorful hotel labels in this vivid, warmly illustrated souvenir card from Gand (Ghent), Belgium, radiating the carefree spirit of pre-war Continental travel. The illustration style, with its rosy-cheeked Art Deco charm and bold primary palette, is characteristic of Belgian and French souvenir publishers of the 1930s, designed to capture the romance of departure and the excitement of new places. The card appears unused but carries a hidden detail of significant interest: a concealed fold-out paper pull hidden beneath the suitcase's die-cut front flap, revealing a miniature accordion-folded strip of black-and-white photographic views — likely street scenes of Ghent — tucked inside like a tiny travel album. This type of novelty "leporello" or pull-out souvenir insert is a prized format among topographical and novelty postcard collectors. The reverse is blank and undivided-style for message, suggesting a souvenir shop item rather than a mailed card.

$22.95
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PC-00870 · Unknown Belgian publisher
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