Set of 5 Antique Photogravure Postcards from National Archeological Museum at Athens German ergebirge animals Temperance preserves health

Temperance preserves health

lovely pale purple glaze

I spotted this stunning vase in a case otherwise filled with American Art Pottery from the early 20th century

As one slide (in my listed "Set 2") reads: "It hardly seems fair to start people on a lifetime of glasses if their sight can be corrected by orthoptic training

produced for Koos Van Den Akker

Set of 5 Antique Photogravure Postcards from National Archeological Museum at Athens German ergebirge animals Temperance preserves healthI've developed something of a thing for old images of Classical sculpture some sort of layering of the ancient and the romantic that makes them feel even more of another world, perhaps. This is a set of five photogravure postcards from, I believe, the National Archeological Museum at Athens, c. 1910. I found them digging through an old box of photos at an antiques show, alongside snapshots taken at archeological sites all from the collection of an