Chile: Caleta Coloso Muelle Pier - Antofagasta Nitrat Port (Vintage PC 1911)

vintage color lithograph picture postcard showing the busy shipping pier muelle at caleta coloso a historic nitrate port south of antofagasta chile.

the image depicts the industrial wooden pier structure stretching over the rocky coastline with railroad tracks and a small train car in the foreground.

published by carlos brandt in valparaiso under number 3104.

the front features handwritten notes in german pencil script.

the back is franked with two chilean stamps 5 centavos blue and 10 centavos greyish blue cancelled with a clear caleta coloso double ring postmark dated february 10 1911. it contains a long handwritten message in german script sent by a sailor or shipping agent addressed to leipzig-connewitz germany.

postally used in 1911

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

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