Tuesday Treasures - February 17, 2026
St. Vincent de Paul had some small boxes of ephemera a few weeks ago. I love looking through those! I found quite a few postal cards. Postal cards are government issue postcards with a printed stamp. The first official postal card was issued by the Austro-Hungarian Empire on Oct. 1, 1869. A year later Germany issued their first. Germany then quickly became known for publishing postcards, especially in the Golden Age of postcard production, 1890s-1914. A few months later the UK joined in, followed by many other countries. The U.S. was late to the game, the first postal card being published in 1873. Region: Bavaria, Germany Freistaat Bayern (Free State of Bavaria) postal card issued c. 1919, shortly after Bavaria declared itself a Free State within the Weimar Republic. It is overprinted after the fall of the Bavarian Socialist Republic. Saargebiet (Saar Basin) The Saar Basin was administrated by the League of Nations ...