Tag: Ernst Platz

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    Alpine Postkarten

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    Postcard History is pleased to introduce Owen Carrollson. Owen recently sent images of a ten-card set that is approaching 125 years old. A happy new year message on one of the set is dated December 17, 1897. Bordering on being “rare finds” they are artist-signed by Ernst Platz, a noted German artist.

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Bob Teevan
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It is easy to imagine that cards printed around the world would be for sale around the world – Not So! Early in the first decade of the 20th century, a German artist named Hans Stövhaus painted a series of “Airship” pictures. Tuck & Sons turned his pictures into postcards for sale in Germany and only in Germany.

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