Germany: Schwäbische Eisenbahn Karte III Railroad Train Goat (Vintage PC Litho ~1910s)

vintage german color lithograph comic postcard based on the famous swabian folk song titled d schwabsche eisebahne karte iii.
the cartoon illustration depicts a steam locomotive passenger train moving through the landscape with dense smoke billowing from the engine chimney. a passenger is smoking a pipe inside the open back door of the rear car marked raucher while a poor goat is tied to the train tracks behind the moving carriage. the right corner features two printed stanzas of the song lyrics in swabian dialect.
published by druck und verlag von j. junginger lith. kunstanstalt stuttgart numbered no. 439 on the front.
the reverse side is unposted and features a divided back with black typography reading carte postale postkarte post card cartolina postale with the publisher mark printed vertically on the center line.

size: ~ 9 x 14 cm (1 cm ~ 0.39 inch)

postally unused

condition: very good..please also refer to scans which show complete front and backside of postcard

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