Lithograph

This lavishly illustrated card, embossed in gold outline, was printed in Germany. It shows how European figures and themes were easily repurposed for local holidays.

The back of the Mumtaz-i-Mahal postcard, with an advertising message for tea and the ink stamp of the sales agent.

This was probably an advertising card for the Queen's Hotel, Kandy Lake, near the Temple of the Buddha's Tooth, and one of Sri Lanka's oldest continuously operating hotels, opened in 1869.

[Original] Cingalais Constipation ses Consequences Veritables Grains de Sante ou Docteur Franck, ([For] Constipation and its
consequences. Spirits beneficial to health from Doctor Franck.) [end]

One of the few Dutch postcards of Indians, though these portraits often were striking, like this postcard of a Hindu.

Paul Gerhardt made a number of postcards of the people around the Ravi Varma press in Karli, outside Bombay, including the Katkari in Maharashtra.

A very early advertising postcard for a fine French champagne from a brand that persists today by a distributor with a monopoly in the Bombay Presidency. Moet & Chandon would ikely have offered these cards to its distributors.

Part of a series showing postmen around the world. This was postmarked in Spalding, Britain,May 6, 1905 and addressed to Mr. G. Riseley, 41 Norfolk Street, King,s Lynn: "Parcel arrived safely. Vest too large, others a fit. Jack."

An early Exposition postcard by a German exotic people's promoter and founder of the modern zoo. In this early postcard, the name of the printer is given towards the top left corner (Th.

Probably an advertising card on postcard stock, or a trade card that came with some consumer goods, with this caption on the back