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SOKOL POSTCARDS 1901 - IV - Prague (Click on any image to view an enlarged version) The fourth festival included excercise exhibitions of 876 women with Indian clubs. Over 6,700 men and 1,600 children took part. Participants included teams from Austria, France, Poland and Slovenia. A procession of 11,000 sokols paid homage to the host city of Prague. There were 50,000 spectators for the 4-day event. Above, a block of four poster stamps, and a single in another color, with the official advertising image for the event (each stamp is about two inches tall). The eBay seller who sold me the block of four claimed the design was the work of world-famous Art Nouveau painter and illustrator Alfons Mucha; however, I emailed an expert on Mucha's work, and he tells me it is not by Mucha. Another source suggests it might be the work of C. V. Muttich, who also painted in the Art Nouveau style, and did other posters for the Sokol movement. The stamp exists in at least five different colors. Below, photo of the Prague National Theater on a card announcing the upcoming Slet, and affirming the close connection Sokol has always maintained with the theater. "Introduction of the Montenegrin delegation to the mayor of Paris" during the Fourth All-Sokol Slet. Greetings to a correspondent in Jicin, franked with Franz Josef 5h. stamp, cancelled with Kral. Vinohrady postmark dated 16 Oct. 1901, and bearing Jicin receiving handstamp dated the same day. Popular 1901 card showing vignettes used on cards of 1891 and 1895. Above, undivided viewcard of the French gymnastic participants in the Slet, franked with Franz Josef 5 h. stamp cancelled with Prague, bi-lingual postmark dated 1.7.01; addressed to Jablonec nad Jizerou, bearing its bi-lingual arrival handstamp of the next day. Special cachet of Prague's Parade Ground IV All-Sokol Slet, held 29.VI. & 30.VI. 1901, applied in purple. Undivided postcard with Falcon and Hradcany motif, franked with Franz Josef 5 h. stamp cancelled with Prague 1, bi-lingual postmark dated 3.10.01; addressed locally to Prague bearing its blue bi-lingual arrival handstamp of the same day. Below, cards issued to promote the event. Starting with the 1901 Slet, photo cards like the ones below, showing teams and events of the Slet, were produced as souvenirs. Below, An undivided postally used postcard showing a group of Bulgarian Junaci at the IV. Slet in Prague. The word "Junaci" translates as youth or young man. In Slovak it is pronounced "Junak", which is the Anglicized term used today for Bulgarian Sokols. The cards below give one a sense of the enormous scope of the festivities.