A hand-colored street scene bursting with Wilhelmine grandeur — Baden-Baden's Leopoldplatz comes alive with a blue electric tram gliding along embedded rails, pedestrians in period dress strolling past ornate cream-and-green Jugendstil facades, and a warm amber sunset glowing behind a civic monument at the plaza's far end. The postcard was sent on July 10, 1930, by a hiker named Paula who had just walked over 30 kilometers to reach Baden-Baden, cheekily confessing she was "not blooming" herself a hot-spring saline bath — yet admitting she was, perhaps, a bit proud of the feat. Addressed to a Mrs. S.G. Mills in Canaan, Connecticut, USA, the card carries a crisp Baden-Baden machine cancel and a 15-Pfennig Paul von Hindenburg definitive stamp in red, published by Gebr. Metz of Tübingen — one of Germany's premier postcard houses of the era.