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SOKOL POSTCARDS

1902

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Below, "Best Wishes!" written on the face of an undivided postcard showing the Domazlice Women's Sokol group. Posted from Smichov to Plzen, August 1902.

Image and description courtesy of Brian Day - see References Image and description courtesy of Brian Day - see References

Photo of Myroslav Tyrs on card written by his widow Renata Tyrsova, posted 31.12.1902 from Prague, sending best wishes to a correspondent in Liboc-Hvezda, Prague.

Image and description courtesy of Brian Day - see References Image and description courtesy of Brian Day - see References

Souvenir postcard of the Sokol Festival held in Krcin on 13th July 1902, with vignette of Miroslav Tyrs, and entitled: "Remember to safeguard the threat to our fraternal unity." Mailed from Recin to Dvur Kralove on 3rd June 1904. Jira Tomek wrote: "Don't send the footballs, too expensive, we'll make them locally. Send inners."

Image and description courtesy of Brian Day - see References Image and description courtesy of Brian Day - see References

1902 postcard showing men's Sokol group from Bystrica.

Unused postcard depicting Sokols giving a display at the Plovdiv Slet held 14, 15, & 16 April 1902. Plovdiv is 80km SE of Sofia, 42-1/4N, 24-3/4E. Note that this card came from the Sokol Archive and was produced by the same printer as the card at the bottom of my page for the year 1910.

Image and description courtesy of Brian Day - see References Image and description courtesy of Brian Day - see References



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