[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] An old postcard

Paul Rakow paul.rakow at cantab.net
Sun Nov 16 10:58:22 PST 2014


 Mauricio,

     One clue must be the stamp in the top right corner,

 Fotografia
 L. Grande
 Danfield

 Does Danfield or Banfield mean anything to you?

  The text is in German, but I can not read all of it,

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 Liebe Kousine!
 Hier schicke ich dir
 ein Bild von
 ---. Wie fin-
 dest Du --- ---
 ich bin nicht
 ----  aus -----

 Voriges Jahr so bin
 ich nach

 recht herzlichen ...

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 Even if I got all the words right (some are guesses)
 it doesn't tell us much, except that it's written to a
 female cousin.

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  Dear Cousin,

  Here I send you a picture of ...

 What do you think
 (or how are you)

   I am not ...

  Last year I went to ...

  Right heart-felt ..

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   Can anyone fill in a bit more?
   There probably is some sort of signature towards the
 end, right where the shadow is deepest.

      Paul Rakow

Mauricio Norenberg mauricio.norenberg at gmail.com wrote:
[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] An old postcard

>Hello list.
>
>In a trip to Brazil, I found an old postcard that definitely came from
>either US or Canada. It is on a bad state and I'm trying to digitally
>recover it, but I wonder if anyone can understand some of this?
>
>I am trying to find who sent this and from where.
>
>https://www.dropbox.com/s/puiynqrten1vgvm/carta_antiga.jpg?dl=0
>
>Any help much appreciated.
>
>Mauricio





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