1899 - 1900 Pfingsten Zwerge - Dwarves - Vintage lithography postcard

Two splendid chromolithography postcards from Germany depicting one of my favourite subjets : hard-working and always industious little gnomes. Here at their usual hustle-and-bustle  for the Pfingsten. Early and fabulous examples of the Golden Age of Postcard. 

Postcards bear the consecutive numbers of 568 and 569, published by Peter Krappen & Co. Gross-Steinheim-Hanau

URSULA SPENZ snail and the dwarf vintage old fantasy postcard from Germany alte POSTKARTE

Great German postcard featuring tiny dwarf riding a snail;) it’s just another passion of Germans - der Wald und Zwerge ;)….I love gnomes and all the creatures living in a forest. Artwork by Ursula Spenz. There are several desings for this series, all postcards accompanied by little poem. The postcard dates back to early 1940's.