Postcard from Germany

Bertram of Minden (1345 - 1415), also known as Master Bertram, was a German international Gothic painter primarily of religious art. His most famous surviving work is the large Grabow Altarpiece also known as the Petri Altar, painted around 1383. Originally located in St. Petri church, it is now in the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany. This beautiful postcard with matching stamps and special pictorial postmark was posted by my best correspondent friend Erhard Molbitz.

Postcard from Hong Kong

Postcard from Russia

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Postcard from Thailand

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Postcard from Ukraine

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Postcard from Taiwan

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Postcard from Thailand

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Postcard from Canada

Woman of Brittany (French Lace Makers) 1911, Emily Carr, watercolour and pencil on paper ~ Vancouver Art Gallery.

Postcard from China

                     Yungang Grottoes, China UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Postcard from Taiwan

Pillow in the shape of a recumbent child with white glaze, Ding ware 11th - 12th century

 

Postcard from China

Bamboo and wooden slips were one of the main media for literacy in early China. The long, narrow strips of wood or bamboo typically carry a single column of brush-written text each, with space for several tens of Chinese characters. The earliest surviving examples of wood or bamboo slips date from the 5th c.BC during the Warring States period.

Postcard from Lithuania

                                            The Moorish Warrior

Postcard from Taiwan

Revolving gourd-shaped vase with decoration of floral pattern in yellow ground of yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign, Qing dynasty