Asta Bidspirit | Lot of 6 portrait postcards


Lot of 6 portrait postcards of Hebrew and Yiddish writers: S. Frug, Y.L. Gordon, Moshe Leib Lilienblum, Dr. Joseph Klausner, Sholem Asch and Jacob Gordin, from the Verlag Hatchijah series, A. Robinsohn, Stanislau (Galicia), unused, 1910-1918 - 6 postcards from the writers' portrait series of Verlag Hatchijah (as printed on the front), the publishing house and bookshop of A. Robinsohn in Stanislau, Galicia (Verlags-Buchhandlung A. Robinsohn, Stanislau Galizien, as printed on the back of some cards). Each card shows the writer's portrait in a frame of roses, a lyre, books and an inkwell, with a scroll carrying his biography and work in Hebrew or Yiddish. In the lot: S. Frug; Y.L. Gordon; Moshe Leib Lilienblum, 1843-1910; Dr. Joseph Klausner; Sholem Asch, card no. 14; Jacob Gordin, 1853-1909. Printed 1910-1918: some cards of the series give the writer's year of death, 1910 (5671), and the ”Stanislau Galizien” address belongs to the Austrian period in Galicia. Unused. Age toning and wear, water stains on the back of one card, creases and rubbing on another. Condition: exactly as photographed.