Description: I’m selling these beauties AS SEEN WITH NO RETURNS. To assist you in your evaluation, I have attached a few clear photos, front and back.I will be sending them out your postcard using USPS, first class mail, ASAP! Your card will be enclosed in a durable, hard plastic protector. It will then be placed in a protective envelope. Sorry, I do not ship out of the USA. Should you have any questions about this postcard, feel free to contact me via eBay messaging. Thank you, Dan Background: The Seven Swabians (Die Sieben Schwaben) is a German fairy tale, collected by The Brothers Grimm in the second volume edition of their Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1857) under the number KHM119.[1] The term Swabians refers to people from the German region Swabia, though in Switzerland it refers to Germans in general. Once upon a time there were Seven Swabians who travelled through the world. To be safe from danger they carried one long spear with them. One day in July they walk through a meadow just by nightfall and notice a hornet buzzing by. Unaware what they just heard the men start to panic, thinking it was a war drum. One of them tries to flee, jumps over a fence and then walks right on the teeth of a rake, whereupon the handle hits him in the face. He quickly begs for mercy and tells the invisible attacker that he'll surrender, whereupon his six friends do the same. Later, when they finally understand they were fooled they decide to keep this embarrassing anecdote a secret. To prevent the story from getting out they swear to not say anything about it until one of them should accidentally opens his mouth. Later they encounter a hare sleeping in the sun. They take the animal for a monster and decide to attack it. After bracing themselves with all the courage they can get they strike out and the hare runs away, whereupon they realize they've once again been fooled. The septet travels onward until they reach the river Moselle. Unaware how to cross the ragging river, the men ask a person on the opposite side of the river to help. Due to the distance and their language the man doesn't understand what they were saying and he asked them in the dialect of Trier: "Wat, Wat?" This causes the men to think the stranger instructs them to enter the warter. As the first Swabian gets into the river he starts to sink into the mud. His hat is blown away to the opposite shore, next to a frog who croaks noises that sound like "wat, wat, wat". The six surviving Swabians think it's their friend telling them to wade across and to hurry. So they all rush into the river and drown. Like many Grimm tales, very few people end up alive and are able to live, “happily ever after.”
Price: 22 USD
Location: Carmichael, California
End Time: 2024-11-19T22:47:40.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Unit of Sale: Unit of 2
Number of Items in Set: 2
Featured Person: Brothers Grimm
Signed By: G.G. Muhlberg
Character: Brothers Grimm
Occasion: Halloween
Signed: Yes
Size: Court Card (4.5 x 3.5 in)
Year Manufactured: 1910
Material: Cardboard, Paper
Franchise: Schwaben Tale Series
Brand/Publisher: G.G. Muhlberg
Subject: Artist
Type: Artist Card
Era: Divided Back (1907-1915)
Theme: Amusement Parks, Animation, Art, Caricature, Children & Infants, Community Life, Disasters, Events, Fairy Tales, Famous Places, Fantasy, Greetings, Historical Figures, Holiday, Humor, Landscapes, Movies, Novelty, Occupational, People, Post, Propaganda, Seasons, Social History, Stamp Language, Tourism, Travel
Features: Divided Back
Time Period Manufactured: 1900-1919
