Antique & Vintage Postcards

Snow lies deep and perfect across the Feldberg plateau — at 1,500 metres the highest peak in the Black Forest — in this crisp, luminous real-photo postcard that could make any viewer reach for their skis: a laden spruce stands like a sentinel in the foreground, its branches bowed under fresh powder, while the handsome dark-timbered Hotel Feldbergerhof commands the middle ground and distant skiers trace tiny lines down the open slope behind, a cable-car or lift pylon visible against a pearl-grey sky. The Feldbergerhof was one of Germany's premier alpine-style ski resort hotels, rebuilt and thriving in the postwar era when winter sport tourism in the Black Forest boomed. Published by Mayer & Satladerer, the hotel's own publisher imprint, this unused card is a superb quality "Echte Photographie" (genuine photograph) example on crisp stock.