Braunschweig / Germany: Brunswick Lion Statue Burglöwe (Vintage PC Art Litho 1912)

vintage artistic lithograph postcard titled braunschweig-burglöwe (the brunswick lion) showing the famous medieval bronze lion statue in front of burg dankwarderode and traditional half-timbered houses (fachwerk).
the front is designed in a beautiful early 20th-century art style as a certified artist lithograph (künstler-steinzeichnung).
the back features a long handwritten message in german dated september 23, 1912. it bears a green 5 pfennig germania stamp of the deutsches reich, canceled with a clear postmark from berlin-wilmersdorf. it also includes a violet address collector's stamp (walther gille, berlin-wilmersdorf) and is addressed to a gentleman in steglitz.
publisher: verlag carl fischer, hofl., braunschweig (gesetzlich geschützt).

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

postally used in 1912

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

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