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Postcard c1959 Chrome Lermoos Sonnenspitze Grünstein Tirol Austria Alps Village
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Chrome · 1959

Postcard c1959 Chrome Lermoos Sonnenspitze Grünstein Tirol Austria Alps Village

Lermoos, Tirol, Austria1959ChromeExcellent

From a bird's-eye vantage that feels almost cinematic, the tiny Tyrolean village of Lermoos nestles in a broad alpine valley floor like a cluster of red-roofed toy buildings, its church steeple a white needle at the center, while the saw-toothed granite peaks of the Sonnenspitze and Grünstein loom in breathtaking scale behind it — the kind of landscape that made mid-century European tourism feel like a discovery of something primordial and perfect. Published by the Hotel Post Lermoos as an exclusive promotional card in 1959 (Bestell-Nr. 50321), this unused chrome-era card captures the Austrian Alps before mass ski development forever altered these valleys, making it a quietly evocative document of a particular postwar European moment. The reverse is entirely blank, never mailed.

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