a picture of a postcard with a stamp on itan old postcard with a picture of a man and a woman on it
Balsan Encheres

129 - HELIGOLAND ( * ) - POSTAGE-PAID POSTCARD, 10 centimes for ov…
See original version (French)

Estimate €25
Description
HELIGOLAND ( * ) - POSTAGE-PAID POSTCARD, 10 centimes for overseas, sent to Switzerland, postmark dated Helgoland 29 July 1884 +n for Switzerland, railway postmark 30 July + arrived in Geneva 31 July 1884. ( * ) “HELGOLAND” (in German) Sacred land dedicated to Fosité, the Frisian people’s larine god. An archipelago in the North Sea belonging to Germany. It belonged to Denmark, then to the United Kingdom, which ceded it to Germany in 1890 in exchange for colonies in West Africa.
See original version (French)
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
You may also like