Antique & Vintage Postcards

Women in long dirndl skirts cluster at the corner of the ancient Batzenhäusl — one of Bozen's most celebrated medieval taverns, its ivy-draped stone walls and gothic arched doorway unchanged since the days of the Counts of Tyrol — while a painted wrought-iron sign swings above the neighboring building in this richly colored Edwardian-into-interwar street scene that breathes the layered Germanic-Italian soul of South Tyrol. The reverse, labeled "BOZEN: Batzenhäusl" and published by Gerstenberger & Müller, Bozen (no. 1657), carries an Italian 10-centesimi stamp with a BOLZANO postmark and a personal message in German Kurrent addressed to someone at "Wörting bei Wien [Salzburg?], [street] No. 3" — the same destination address as PC-02493, strongly suggesting these two cards were sent together or by the same correspondent, offering a rare paired-card research opportunity for collectors.