Two figures drift across the glassy stillness of the Laudachsee (881 m) in a traditional wooden punt, their reflections dissolving into the mirror-calm water as forest-cloaked hillsides frame the far shore — a scene of Alpine leisure so perfectly composed it could serve as a tourism poster for the Salzkammergut. Photographed by the renowned Austrian landscape photographer Brandt (catalogue no. 764/5), this real-photo postcard of the Laudachsee near Gmunden captures the lake at its most serene, with overhanging beech branches and a young spruce framing the foreground in classic pictorialist style. The card was sent from the Ramsaualm am Laudachsee — a mountain pasture hut above the lake — to a young man named Karli care of Hofinger in Vienna, written in affectionate German cursive. It bears an Austrian Republic 1-Schilling architectural definitive stamp (depicting a church, likely the Wels or Maria Plain series) with a Wels postmark.