My Imperial Postcards

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WHW Meister: Those are great postcards. I have been gathering post cards for many years because I use them for research and as illustrations, since they are nearly always in the public domaine. Anyway, the number 1960 on the postcard of Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin is simply the publisher's catalog number. Here is an example found on a postcard of SMS Odin from the period 1893-96. If you look in the lower left corner you will see the publisher's logo and the number 9903. Dwight

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Thanks for that Dwight, I was sure it couldn't have been a 1969 card. According to the front of this postkarte, (I think) it shows a French ship picking up a French seaplane?

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Deutschland über alles - Patriotika 1915

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Next up is Fragettenkapitän Karl von Müller, pre Pour Le Merite, of the SMS Emden. Great story - Karl von Müller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and an even better one, which surely would make a fantastic movie - SMS Emden (1908) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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General Erich von Falkenhayn 1916 - Erich von Falkenhayn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Bürgerwehr 1848

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Das Preußische Panzerschiff Prinz Adlabert 1868

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Das Unterseeboot SM-U9. This U-boat was involved in one of the most famous submarine actions in history

SM U-9 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Deutsche Taube im Kampf mit feindlichen Fliegern - pistols at 5,000 feet!