Antique & Vintage Postcards

Three soaring Romanesque arches of the Fisherman's Bastion frame the iconic neo-Gothic dome of the Hungarian Parliament across the shimmering Danube — one of the most celebrated viewpoints in all of Central Europe, captured here in deep burnt-sienna tones that give the stonework an almost molten warmth. This real-photo style card, officially captioned in five languages including Esperanto (Panoramo desur la "Fišista bastiono" al la parlamentejo), was posted from Budapest on 8 August 1922 and sent again to young Joly in Vas county — a companion piece to PC-00981, mailed just days apart by the same sender, "Fedora," and addressed in the same hand to the same Zákla address. Together the two cards suggest a Budapest visit or tour narrated card by card to a friend in the countryside. The Hungarian 8 filler sunburst definitive stamp of 1921–22 is cleanly cancelled.