Antique WWI Trade Card Lot 43 1914-1919 Verdun Jutland Gallipoli Jerusalem Litho For Sale

La Guerra Europea, Lot of 43 WWI Cards

1914–1919

The essentialsEvery year of the war. Cards dated 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919.Printed during the war. Issued as the events happened, not as a later retrospective.All fronts covered. Western Front, Italy, the Balkans, the Middle East, Africa, the seas and the Far East.The peace, too. The late series cover the armistice, the Kaiser’s exile and the 1919 Peace Conference.Chocolate Amatller, Barcelona. Historic Catalan chocolate house founded in 1800, printed by Oliver y Rigod.Text on every back. Each card explains its episode in Spanish, like a pocket newspaper.The Great War, seen from neutral Spain

Highlights of the lot1914Serbia, King Peter IThe war begins in the Balkans. Also the surrender of German Kiautschou in China.1915The Austrians retake PrzemyślThe Eastern Front, plus the Allied landings at the Dardanelles.1916Verdun, Fort Vaux, JutlandThe great battles of 1916, the sinking of the Sussex and the fall of Kut-el-Amara.1917Messines, Riga, Flanders, IsonzoPlus the proclamation of the Russian Republic, the British entry into Jerusalem, and Peru and Uruguay breaking with Germany.1918Roye, Ghent, TrentoThe final offensives and the arrival of the German plenipotentiaries for the armistice.1919Orlando, Fiume, EgyptThe peace: the Italian Chamber, Orlando’s withdrawal from Paris, the Kaiser’s road to Holland and the revolution in Egypt.Full inventory by series

Condition

Collector referenceCollectionLa Guerra EuropeaIssuerChocolate Amatller, Barcelona (founded 1800)PrinterLit. Oliver y Rigod, BarcelonaYears1914 to 1919, issued during the warCards in lot43Series represented1ª, 3ª, 5ª, 6ª, B, 9ª, 10ª, 15, 16ª, 17ª, 19ª, 20ª, text in Spanish, Amatller logoLanguageSpanishConditionWartime wear; a few cards with damage, see photos_gsrx_vers_1828 (GS 10.0 (1828))