A lone oarsman rows a canopied wooden boat across the glassy surface of the Thunersee while behind him, partly obscured by poplars and a Swiss lakeside villa, the triumvirate of the Bernese Oberland — Eiger (3,975 m), Mönch (4,105 m), and Jungfrau (4,166 m) — floats in the hazy distance like a painted backdrop, their heights dutifully noted in red type along the bottom edge. This is Hilterfingen, a quiet lakeside commune south of Thun, its church spire just visible through the trees at left. Published as card number 2960 by Edition Photoglob Co. of Zürich — one of the most celebrated Swiss postcard publishers of the Belle Époque, renowned for their photochrome and collotype quality — this undivided-back card dates to the very earliest years of the picture-postcard boom, when the reverse was legally reserved for the address alone. The multilingual back ("Carte Postale / Postkarte / Cartolina Postale") reflects Switzerland's federally mandated trilingual postal standard. A pristine, unwritten example of Swiss lacustrine grandeur at its most refined.