Scheut Missions / Philippines: Flying Bridge Cable Crossing Ethnic CICM (Vintage PC ~1920s/1930s)

postcard no. 6 from the scheut missions series, titled "missiën van scheut - philippijnen. de zwevende brug" (the flying/floating bridge), showing a missionary in cassock riding a improvised pulley-suspended platform across a mountain river, while a local man holds a horse on the rocky riverbank below.

published by n.e.l.s. for the scheut missions (cicm - congregatio immaculati cordis mariae), a belgian catholic missionary congregation active in the philippine highlands.

marked "philippijnen - eigendom van scheut" (property of scheut) on reverse.

unused card, numbered "6" in a series.

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

condition: excellent...please also refer to scans which show complete front and reverse of postcard

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