Twin turquoise minarets soar above the Friday Mosque of Herat, their faience tilework blazing like cut sapphires against a hard blue Central Asian sky — one of the most architecturally magnificent Islamic monuments on earth, and here captured in a chrome-era color postcard at the height of Afghanistan's peaceful tourist years. The sprawling courtyard of the Masjid Jami of Herat stretches in warm terracotta hues as a small group of worshippers and visitors stand dwarfed beneath the towering iwan façade, its intricate blue-and-gold geometric tilework miraculously intact. Founded in the 15th century under the Timurid dynasty and repeatedly restored, the mosque was undergoing active conservation in the early 1970s — the era this card depicts. Also distributed through Nasrullah Sadiqui's Kabul shop, this is among the most visually striking postcards of pre-war Afghanistan in circulation among collectors today.