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Postcard Milano Duomo Cathedral Italy Pre-Linen Sepia Unused Early 1900s
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Pre-linen · 1907

Postcard Milano Duomo Cathedral Italy Pre-Linen Sepia Unused Early 1900s

Milan, Italy1907Pre-linenGood

The bristling Gothic pinnacles of Milan's impossibly ornate Duomo rise against a pale sky in this warm sepia-toned early-20th-century view — a cathedral that took nearly six centuries to complete and remains one of the largest Gothic churches in the world. Captured from a slightly elevated vantage at the southwest corner, the image renders every marble spire, flying buttress, and carved portal with crisp photographic resolution, while tiny horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians at street level convey the vast scale of the façade. The reverse is completely blank save for a penciled dealer's notation "200" at the top center — entirely unused, unaddressed, and without publisher imprint, suggesting this may be an early undivided-back or transitional-format card printed before publisher credits became standard. The creamy yellow card stock has aged to a warm ivory, consistent with pre-1910 Italian production.

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