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218 postcards Constance, album no. 11, collection...

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218 postcards Constance, album no. 11, collection focus on 'saying cards, poems, colourful hodgepodge', turn of the century. Techniques: including lithography, chromolithography/colour lithography, collotype, autotype, combination printing, etc. Artists: Lith. F. Möbius Neuwied; Elisabeth Lörcher; G. Gagg; Atelier Eugen Faller Isny. Poet: Josef Blum; Dr Conrad Gröber 'Das Konstanzer Lied'; Rudolf Hügle-Striby; Publishers: H. Möblius Neuwied; Gebr. Metz Kunstverlags-Anstalt Tübingen; Joh. Elchepp. Court Art Publishers, Freiburg. Special cards: Photos of frozen Lake Constance in the winter of 1928/29. Photomontage with the following text: "Original photo of the new Constance tram on test run harbour-Kreuzlingen opening of the line 27 February 1927 12 noon." This tramway never existed. The photomontage gives itself away because the necessary overhead line, without which no S-Bahn can run, is missing. Total: 218 postcards.