July 27, 2024
Tag: red cross postcards
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Red Cross Postcards
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The Red Cross was founded by Henri Dunant, who was present at the Battle of Solferino in 1859, at which 40,000 men were killed or wounded. Dunant spent the next five years trying to get support for his plan and succeeded in convoking a convention of interested persons in Geneva, Switzerland in 1864. After the…
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February 20, 2022 4 Comments
Finding unidentified real photo postcards is among our hobby’s most perplexing problems. How often have you heard it said, “I wish they would have written names (or dates, or places … or anything) on the backs of these cards!” This story is about some cards that had names on them, but each was in Greek.