April 12, 2024
FRUCHTERMANN OTTOMAN INVESTITURE - FIREFIGHTER POSTCARD
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POSTCARD SULTAN RESAD INVESTITURE CEREMONY IN 1909. BEYAZID FIREFIGHTERS WITH YELLOW HELMET. WRITING ON TRIUMPHAL ARCH GATE IS "LONG LIFE OUR SULTAN". CONSTANTINOPLE Undivided Postcard Please see images & text below Condition: excellent (minor foxing), as seen Each Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inch NOTE: Blur, coloured dots and/or strips were caused by the Scanner and are not in the original item. The original image is better than the JPG shown , it lost a bit in transfering it to the web If you would like to see a larger scan, please mail us and we wil be happy to send you one by e-mail. from book THE POSTCARDS OF MAX FRUCHTERMANN MAX FRUCHTERMANN Born in 1852 in Kalucz, a town on the eastern border of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Max Fruchtermann came to Istanbul in 1867 and two years later opened a picture framing shop in the city. Having decided to have the first Ottoman Postcard Series printed at Breslau in 1895, he ensured through his cards, which number in the millions, that the name "Turkey and the multifarious images associated with it" spread throughout the entire world from Canada to New Zeland. In 1966 when Fruchtermann's daughter-in-law Anna, before closing down the establishment, sold her remaining stock (subsequently realized to number around 600,000) to a secondhand dealer for 2500 liras, she probably never imagined
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