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Hercegovka Bosnia Herzegovina Traditional Costume Postcard c1905
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Golden Age · 1905

Hercegovka Bosnia Herzegovina Traditional Costume Postcard c1905

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Austro-Hungarian Empire)1905Golden AgeUnused
Richly colored chromolithograph postcard depicting a woman in full traditional Herzegovinian festive or bridal costume (Hercegovka / Hercegovinerin / Херцеговка). She wears an embroidered white blouse with wide floral-embroidered sleeves, a heavily fringed dark skirt (dimije), an ornate silver clasp belt, a decorated front apron panel with gold embroidery and hanging gold ornaments, multiple strand bead necklaces, and a white embroidered headscarf topped with a gold crown piece (tikla). The costume represents the Ottoman-influenced Muslim Herzegovinian tradition. The full-length portrait is set against a warm golden-brown background. Published by J. Studničkа & Co., Sarajevo, printed by Graph. Kunstanstalt M. Schulz, Prag (Prague); Photochrom Prague. Catalog No. 1004. Back in Croatian (Dopisnica), German (Ansichtskarte), and Serbian Cyrillic (Дописница). Unposted and unused.
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PC-01724 · J. Studnicka & Co., Sarajevo / Graph. Kunstanstalt M. Schulz, Prag — No. 1004 — Photochrom Prague
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