Studentica: Handmade Silhouette Portrait German Student Fraternities Couleur (Vintage PC 1914)

rare piece of studentica history: an original, authentic handmade silhouette portrait (echter scherenschnitt) meticulously cut from black paper and pasted onto a vintage postcard.
the portrait depicts the crisp profile of a young male student wearing his traditional fraternity cap (studentenmuetze) and a high stiff collar with a tie.
the lower area features a detailed handwritten ink dedication in german student jargon dated may 8, 1914 (8.v.1914). it includes student fraternity symbols (zirkel) and reads: s. l. a. h. hoelzer z. frdl. erg. karl bayer (x). this stands for a dedication to a fellow fraternity brother ("alter herr") as a friendly memento, signed by karl bayer who held the highest officer position (erstchargierter / x).
the back is an unused divided postcard (postkarte) printed in black fraktur font.

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

postally unused

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

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