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LOT 37:
Postcard Collection - Rothschild Family. Various Publishers, Early 20th Century
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Start price:
$
200
Estimated price:
$300 - $400
Auction house commission:
22%
VAT: 17% On commission only
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Postcard Collection - Rothschild Family. Various Publishers, Early 20th Century
Fifteen postcards depicting the Rothschild family as well as houses, streets and sites related to them. Various publishers. 1900-1920.
Highlights: a postcard with interior and exterior views of the Rothschilds' home [including the private synagogue] in Frankfurt; the Rothschild Hospital in Paris; a rare postcard with a front view of the Rothschild family home in Frankfurt, and the portraits of the family's parents - James Mayer de Rothschild, Betty Salomon de Rothschild and their five children [among them Baron James]; the family's vacation house; a number of photographed postcards [different from each other] depicting the front of the family home in Frankfurt; two postcards showing the Rothschild Hospital [one was mailed in 1910]; two postcards with the family's father, James Mayer de Rothschild's portrait, and the family home in the background [one of which was sent by mail in 1906]; and two postcards showing the Rothschild castle in Geneva - one photo postcard and the other a lithograph Gruss aus souvenir postcard [undivided, sent by mail in 1900], and more.
Six were sent by mail, three are not divided [prior to 1905]. Overall fine -very fine condition.
