Bidspirit auction | Lot of 4 postcards: Jankiel

Lot of 4 postcards: Jankiel the cymbalist, the Jew of Mickiewicz's ”Pan Tadeusz”, on two cards (Jan Moniuszko, Warsaw, and Setkowicz, Kraków), ”Easter Greeting” with a Star of David sign (USA) and an interior scene - Lot of 4 postcards, early 20th century: 1. ”Jan Moniuszko: Jankiel Cymbalista / Jankiel le cymbalier” (Jankiel the cymbalist), painting by Jan Moniuszko: Jankiel, the Jewish innkeeper and cymbalist of Adam Mickiewicz's Polish national epic ”Pan Tadeusz”, playing the cymbalom before a gathering of Polish nobles in festive dress in a garden. No. 1, published by Józef Poznański, Warsaw. Unused. 2. Jankiel playing the cymbalom at Zosia's wedding, signed Setkowicz, with a quotation from ”Pan Tadeusz”: ”...zagrajże Jankielu, Wszak nieraz przyrzekałeś grać na mem weselu? Jankiel niezmiernie Zosię lubił, kiwnął brodą, Na znak, że nie odmawia. A. Mickiewicz.” (Play, Jankiel, did you not promise many times to play at my wedding? Jankiel, who loved Zosia dearly, nodded his beard in consent). Series 95 No. 3, published by Salon Malarzy Polskich, Kraków, Made in Galizia (Austria). Unused. 3. ”Easter Greeting”, American Easter greeting card: a chick in a top hat with a walking stick visiting a chick sitting inside a red egg with a pipe and a tray holding a bottle and a small glass, a barrel beside him, and above the opening a Star of David sign hanging from a pole (the hexagram was also a traditional sign of breweries and taverns). Sent in the USA, 1c stamp, addressed to Grand Island, Nebraska, handwritten German greeting. 4. Black and white interior scene: men sitting in a room by a window, one of them reading, a candlestick on the table and a hanging lamp, and on the wall a portrait of an old man with a white beard. Blank back. Condition: signs of use and light wear to corners and edges, light stains.