By the cool light of a painted moon, three silhouetted figures pause at the mouth of a coastal tunnel on the Corniche road between Nice and Monaco — the Mediterranean glittering beyond the rocky headland, a sailing vessel becalmed on the silver water — in one of the most atmospheric and collectible Riviera moonlight cards of the 1890s, published by the renowned Carl Künzli of Zurich (Dep. No. 3123). Dated by the sender "18/1.98" (January 18, 1898), this is an exceptionally early example of a divided-side-precursor card: the message is written across the image face and continues onto a narrow strip beside the address, as was the convention before the divided back was standardized in 1902–1904. The sender writes in German script of traveling plans — returning south soon, already planning to leave Monte Carlo, mentioning Cannes and mention of "20" — a Grand Tour itinerant. The card traveled to "Frl. Jenny Boermann" in Berlin (Lehrterte Str. 88c), carried by two 5-centime French Type Sage stamps (Scott #75 pair), and received a Berlin Postamt 40 delivery cancel dated 21.I.98.