Asta Bidspirit | Lot of 6 portrait postcards


Lot of 6 portrait postcards of Hebrew and Yiddish writers: M. Spector, H.D. Nomberg, Dr. Jacob Cahan, Isaiah Bershadsky, I.M. Weissenberg and H.N. Bialik, 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: M. Spector, born in Uman, 1858, card no. 30; H.D. Nomberg; Dr. Jacob Cahan, card no. 11; Isaiah Bershadsky, card no. 19; I.M. Weissenberg, card no. 7; H.N. Bialik. 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, spotting and a paper strip on the back of one card, a piece of paper stuck on the back of another, pencil marks on the back of some cards. Condition: exactly as photographed.