Serbia, Kingdom. A Lot of Three Photographs and Nine Unused Postcards, c.1910

Item #EU19135

$160

Three photographs in black and white, one with matte finish, two with a gloss finish, one with a scalloped border, two with handwritten inscriptions on the reverse, one is studio stamped "Foto-Atelier-Wagner MARIBOR" on the reverse. Nine unused postcards, eight in black and white, one is colourized with a red text imprint and illustrating a gathering at the 1878 Treaty of San Stefano with a handwritten inscription on its reverse, all with postcard-style backers. Ranging in size from 132 mm (w) x 84 mm (h) to 140 mm (w) x 93 (h), rating from fair to better than very fine.

 

Footnote: The 1878 Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between the Russian and Ottoman empires signed at San Stefano, then a village west of Constantinople (present-day İstanbul), on March 3, 1878 by Count Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev and Aleksandr Nelidov on behalf of the Russian Empire and by Foreign Minister Saffet Pasha and Ambassador to Germany Sadullah Bey on behalf of the Ottoman Empire. The treaty ended the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78.