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SOKOL POSTCARDS and Poster Stamps 1902 (Click on any image to view an enlarged version) Below, "Best Wishes!" written on the face of an undivided postcard showing the Domazlice Women's Sokol group. Posted from Smichov to Plzen, August 1902. --------- Photo of Myroslav Tyrš on card written by his widow Renata Tyršova, posted 31.12.1902 from Prague, sending best wishes to a correspondent in Liboc-Hvezda, Prague.   Below, souvenir postcard of the Sokol Festival held in Krčín on 13th July 1902, with vignette of Miroslav Tyrš, and entitled "Remember to safeguard the threat to our fraternal unity," referring to threatened Sokol Organizations in border areas, where their nationalistic spirit was considered a threat. Mailed from Krčín to Dvur Kralove on 3rd June 1904, a correspondence between the chiefs of two Sokol organizations. Jóža Tomek wrote: Dear Brother - I am answering your correspondence card. Do not send spears by train, it would be too expensive. We decided to make them here. The supplements kindly come to me as soon as possible. Thanks! Nazdar! [Czech-Sokol greeting] Jóža Tomek Chief I assume the spear was for use in a Sokol performance. 8/5/2018 - translation courtesy of Štefan Šuták. Here are Štefan's notes on the translation.   1902 postcard showing men's Sokol group from Bystrica. ------ Unused postcard depicting Sokols giving a display at the Plovdiv Slet held 14, 15, & 16 April 1902. Plovdiv is 80km SE of Sofia, 42-1/4N, 24-3/4E. Note that this card came from the Sokol Archive and was produced by the same printer as the card at the bottom of my page for the year 1910.

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