17. Photographic postcard illustrating Queen Mary, written by the poet Panait Cerna, 1901, from the collection of the literary critic Șerban Cioculescu

Selling price

EUR 150

Session

Wed, 5 July 2023 19:00

Future Queen Mary appears with in a splendid photographic postcard printed by Sfetea publishing house in Bucharest, after an original cliché made by the Royal Court photographer Franz Mandy whose dry stamp is on the lower right. On the back, there is a handwritten correspondence, signed, between the Romantic poet Panait Cerna (1881-1913), the sender, to addressee Gheorghe Demetrescu-Mugur (1879-1949), writer, teacher and President of the Board of Directors of the Romanian Broadcasting Company. The cardboard was circled in August 1901 on the Sinaia-Techirghiol route and is in a very good state of preservation.

Dimensions

width 8.5 cm, height 13.5 cm, custom 13,5 × 8,5 cm

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