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Five Vintage European Postcards - Norway, Scotland, France, Wales.

$ 4.48

Availability: 79 in stock
  • City/Region: Europe
  • Condition: Used
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Postage Condition: Posted

    Description

    Five Vintage European Postcards - Norway, Scotland, France, Wales.
    Oops!  I included a Guatemala card - so selling 6 together.
    Passed down in the family.
    Unique 1921 Embroidered French Postcard, Anniversarie Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
    It measures 5 1/2" x 3 1/2". The front is hand stitched embroidered flowers, a horseshoe and lettering spelling out "Anniversaire".  It is framed in a cream colored border.  The Carte Postale back is dated 1 July 1921 and St. Germain-en-Laye and a handwritten greeting from "318".
    Old Scottish Postcard - Kilted Soldier - Thinking of Home.
    Measures 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". Cool unique postcard of Scottish soldier with a rifle/bayonet in front of a tent.  He is picturing his elderly parents and a red haired girl by the fire.  The front of the card reads: MY AIN FOLK
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    Far free my hame I wander but still my thoughts return
    To my ain folk ower yonder in the shilling by the burn.
    I see the cosy ingle and the mist abune the brae
    And joy and sadness mingle as I list some auld warld lay.
    Words by permission of Boosey & Co.
    The back styled with Art Nouveau designs are the words Post Card and B Co. in the middle.
    Slight wear from handling on edges.
    Two Postcards Kon-Tiki Expedition 1947 Oslo, Norway.
    Each measures 5 3/4" x 4". Commemorating the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl  in 1947, a journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands
    1933 Welsh Windmill Card.
    Measures 3 1/4" x 5 /12".  The card is from Jane and John Spiers and says its a picture of a Welsh windmill near their old home.
    Guatemala, C.A. Greeting Card
    measures 2 3/4" x 5". There is no date. staple holes near top.
    The card says Happy New Year from Captain and Mrs. Agustin Donis Kestler.  He was a Guatemalan ambassador.