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SOKOL POSTCARDS and Poster Stamps 1899 (Click on any image to view an enlarged version) "Sokol Greetings" to Budéjovice from Vienna. Early Roudnice nad Labem card ("Greetings from Roudnice") postmarked 1899, with image of Tyrš and Fügner at left, the Sokol house at Roudnice in center, and Fügner monument in Prague at right.     Above, courtesy of Brian Day, an official Sokol postcard with vignette of an original painting attributed to Alfons Mucha entitled: "Sokol Movement for the Threatened Territory"; a reference to small Sokol groups seeking support, and another copy of the same card, front only. The design demonstrates the artist's early interest in the symbolic significance of Hradcany (Prague Castle), a theme he used again in 1918 on his design for the first set of Czechoslovak stamps. Unstamped and posted from Prague bearing its bi-lingual Praha l/Prag I. Code a. cancel dated 7.8.99, and addressed to Ostromer, it has a 4Kr. due mark. paid by 1 Kr. and 3Kr. dues. with bi-lingual Ostromer cancel used both as a cancel of the dues and arrival postmark dated 8.8.99. (Internal postcard rate: 2Kr.. doubled if unfranked.) Designer: T. Zyka. Publisher: C.O.S. NOTE: I sent the scan of this post card to John Mucha, grandson of Alphonse Mucha and President of the Mucha Foundation, and he informed me that the design is not his grandfather's. Undivided correspondence card, with predominant Czech language printing, bearing vignette of the Barakuv memorial in Olsanskem Cemetery, posted from Chochen to Semily on 17.3.99 and bearing arrival handstamp of the next day. Circular cachet of Chochen town's local office. Štefan Šuták informs me that the message on the postcard above is a "request to send hectograph mass (gelatin) and ink." I had never even heard of a hectograph - DETAILS HERE. You can see more cards to that address, and the same requests, on the pages for 1898 and 1900.

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