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    Requesting insights about a few postcards..

    As you might know or guessed by my user name i collect everything related to the poem/song:"Der gute Kamerad"/"Ich hatt' einen Kameraden".

    I have many hundreds of postcards related to the theme but when i receive them the fun starts of scanning, identifying, label, categorize and storing them.
    A few postcards have not much or nothing at all to go from to whereby i can identify them.

    Here is where you guys can chime in and help me.

    The first card is that of a monument:

    Where is this monument located, who is the architect/sculptor, date etcetera..
    I went for a long shot by contacting the local government of Pirmasens, that of the postcard printer's location.
    The archive were not familiar with this particular monument.

    Another monument, Ehrenmal Seminar Annaberg:

    Where is this monument located, who is the artist, date etcetera..
    I contacted Annaberg in Voralpenland and Salzburgerland, both in Austria and i got nothing.

    Ceremony of fallen soldiers of WWI:

    The back states: W M Aufn. Dipl. Ing. Sielken
    Where and when was this ceremony?

    This postcard is titled as a monument:

    Is this postcard a representation of an actual monument by August Veiter?
    I am unable to find any information about it.

    This is rather weird to ask but what does the figure on the road represent.

    To me it seems that there are two chickens of which one is looking upon the dead one. What is your opinion?

    #2
    It looks like a worn out and discarded boot to me ...

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      #3
      In Annaberg, Erzgebirge, there was/is located a "Seminar". May be inside this seminary is located your monument?

      http://www.google.de/imgres?q=annabe...9&tx=188&ty=63

      Gerdan

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        #4
        The last one: the "chicken" could be a capercaillie ?

        Gerdan

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          #5
          Originally posted by Geoff Walden View Post
          It looks like a worn out and discarded boot to me ...
          I agree..a worn out boot left discarded in the road.
          A boot that has seen heavy damage from long usage.
          So poetically a representative of a kameraden who was KIA after long service in the road of war which ultimately had the goal of getting back zum heimat/ to the homeland.

          Just my impressions

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            #6
            Originally posted by Gerdan View Post
            In Annaberg, Erzgebirge, there was/is located a "Seminar". May be inside this seminary is located your monument?

            http://www.google.de/imgres?q=annabe...9&tx=188&ty=63

            Gerdan
            I think you are onto something, thank you very much, i will contact the archive of Sachsen.

            Last postcard,
            Altough the worn boot theory is intriguing, the size in relation to the pot on the fence(and the fence itself), means it's humongous!

            The upper part looks really like a chicken to me but the lower part must be some sort of other bird possible a capercaillie, like Gerdan suggested, or a female peacock?

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              #7
              I am still looking for answers.

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                #8
                One mystery solved:


                While there could be/been an actual monument of the drawing, the monument on the right bears just a small plate painted with a derivation of the drawing, i am glad i found some pictures of the monument!

                I contacted Stadtgemeinde St. Andrä in Austria, i hope they can tell me more about the monument.

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