Java / Dutch East Indies: Houttransport Ox Cart Wood Transport (Vintage PC 1908)

original vintage postcard - no reprint!    

titled "houttransport" (wood transport) showing a long line of ox drawn carts loaded with wood and hay on a country road, with palm trees and a thatched roof building in the background.

photo by g. adolfs, joana (java), a well known photographer and postcard publisher active in the dutch east indies in the early 1900s.

printed in sepia tone with "groet uit..." greeting text partly visible on the front.

a dutch east indies stamp with a clear 1908 postmark is affixed to the picture side. the reverse is the plain "briefkaart / carte postale, algemeene postvereeniging" address side, blank and unused, with no address or message written.

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 back of postcard

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