Antique & Vintage Postcards

Vivid golden buttercups and creamy white mountain crowfoot burst from a dark background in this lush, close-up botanical real-color photographic postcard — a style perfected by German natural-science publishers in the early twentieth century. Identified on the reverse as Ranunculus montanus (Berg-Hahnenfuss / Mountain Buttercup) and Ranunculus aconitifolius (Eisenhutblättriger Hahnenfuss), the card was published by Kunstverlag Fingerie & Co. of Esslingen am Neckar, one of Germany's most respected botanical postcard houses. Mailed from Frankfurt on September 11, 1934, and densely covered in German cursive script, it was sent to a Lotte in Berlin-Charlottenburg at Lindenallee 27 — the message, written in old German script, closes warmly with what appears to be "Herzlichst vor Eurem Vormann bald vorbe!" The card bears a striking Nazi-era propaganda cancellation reading "Vermeidet Rundfunk-Störungen!" (Avoid radio interference!), a vivid artifact of the period's pervasive state messaging.