Bidspirit auction | Fifteen photographs and photographic postcards

Fifteen photographs and photographic postcards from Czechoslovakia and Europe, spanning 1915 to 1929. Among them a real photo postcard of a ruined street at Langemarck in Flanders from the First World War front, the reverse inscribed in manuscript and dated 1915; a group of views from the officers' school at Bratislava signed by the photographer Beno, including a Sunday afternoon gathering dated 17 November 1928, an instructional shooting exercise dated 15 November 1928 and a view captioned Andel miru, Bratislava, dated 4 November 1928; a group portrait of soldiers at Pilsen; a sentry in a long greatcoat and steel helmet; a couple walking in a street at Lucenec, December 1929; school class photographs with pupils and teachers; a party of walkers on a tree lined path; and a portrait of an elderly bearded man smoking a pipe. Several of the pieces carry manuscript place and date notes on the reverse, one of them printed on paper with the imprint Labor Kodak Praha. The largest photograph in the lot measures 22 cm and the smallest 11 cm, most of them in postcard format. Condition commensurate with age, lot details exactly as photographed.