Antique & Vintage Postcards

The medieval skyline of Dinkelsbühl floats dreamlike above a shimmering river in this lush chromolithographed passepartout postcard, its lower half dominated by a spectacular embossed and gilt Bavarian royal coat of arms — two golden lions flanking a crowned shield quartered with the blue-and-white lozenges of the House of Wittelsbach — alongside the smaller red-and-gold wheat-sheaf arms of Dinkelsbühl itself. One of the best-preserved medieval walled towns in Germany, Dinkelsbühl had barely changed since the Thirty Years' War, and late-19th-century tourists flocked there for exactly that reason. Printed by R&K, Nürnberg (Dep. 123818) for Friedrich Frölich, the card was posted with a Bavarian 10-Pfennig stamp from Dinkelsbühl on 27 March (year partially legible, consistent with 1903) and addressed in fine German script.