Germany: Schwäbische Eisenbahn Karte II Railroad Train Station (Vintage PC Litho ~1910s)

vintage german color lithograph comic postcard based on the famous swabian folk song titled d schwabsche eisebahne karte ii.
the cartoon illustration depicts a busy station scene with a passenger train belonging to the royal wuerttemberg state railways marked kwste with a cow looking out of a freight car. a local farmer with an umbrella is climbing aboard a yellow carriage while talking to a woman holding a basket on the platform and a bearded railway official is checking tickets. the bottom area features three printed stanzas of the song lyrics in swabian dialect.
published by druck und verlag von j. junginger lith. kunstanstalt stuttgart numbered no. 438 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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