Antique & Vintage Postcards

A tender piece of German postal history from July 1902 — this undivided-back art postcard carries a lushly chromolithographed Alpine landscape: a mirror-still stream in the foreground, autumn-bronzed trees flanking a broad valley, and a dramatic pyramidal mountain catching warm light in the distance. The sender, signing only as "Rosel," filled the sky with looping Kurrent script addressed to "mein liebes kleines Herzgrutchen" — "my dear little sweetheart" — sending "many heartfelt greetings." The card was mailed from Nieder-Pöckritz and delivered to Fräulein Hildachen Buchmann at the same village, suggesting a local romance or close family affection. Published by H. L. & Co. (Frankfurt a.M.), this undivided-back format places it squarely in the pre-1905 era, before the divided back became standard in Germany.