39 unused humorous postcards

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Vienna, Austria, C. Pietsch, 1914-1918

excellent

1914-1918 thirty-nine unused caricature postcards (numbered between 2 and 83 in the series) by Rudolf Kristen (1889-1946) who served as a Zugsführeer in the Austro-Hungarian K.u.K. Infanterie-Regiment No. 4 -  hence the cap insignia on the images of soldiers. Themes include all the stresses of camp life (fleas, bad food, no sanitation) and satiric commentary on the Red Cross, and peasant life in Poland. Printed by C. Pietsch in Vienna.