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Description
Annotation translation: "In the mountains about 200 m. up there is a crater with many eruption cones and covered with yellow grass. There are two fairy-tale lakes - one round and emerald-green, the other crescent-shaped and blue." "Vollbehr art postcards 'Cameroon'. " "Sales exclusively from the Basel Mission Bookshop, Duala, Cameroon." "The Elephant Lake near Johann-Albrechts Höhe" [handwritten note on the rear of the card]. Annotation: "Im Gebirge etwa 200 m hoch befindet sich ein mit vielen Eruptionskegeln und mit gelbem Gras bedecktes Kraterbecken in diesem liegen zwei märchenhaft schöne Seen, der eine kreisrund und smaragdgrün, der andere halbmondförmig und blau." - "Vollbehr-Künstlerpostkarten 'Kamerun'." - "Alleinvertrieb: Basler Missionshandlung, Duala (Kamerun)." - "Der Elefantensee bei Johann-Albrechts-Höhe. [Handschrift auf der Kartenrückseite]." (MS 03.1998). Note: Vorlage: Aquarell von Ernst Vollbehr. - Von Prof. T. A. Freyvogel, Tropeninstitut Basel erhalten. Note translation: "Original: water-colour by Ernst Vollbehr". Stamped: "-- Mai 1975."
Type
image
Format
print, letterpress halftone, colour (HD) postcard, 8.8 x 13.8 cm.
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