Mavi Boncuk | Smyrne Art Nouveau litho Quais Quay Ottoman Turkey.
This postcard was published by Ottmar Zieher in about 18998.
Art Nouveau colour litho postcard of Smyrne (= Izmir), Ottoman Turkey with an undivided back. It shows a beautiful view of the Pont des Caravanes (= Bridge of the Caravans). This postcard was published by Ottmar Zieher in about 1899.
The big, well-known postcard publisher Ottmar Zieher (1857-1924), MuOttmar_Ziehernich, claimed having published 6000 different cards from Germany and Austria-Hungary by Oct. 1895. For November that year Zieher announced to have complete series of coloured cards with views from America, Belgium, England, France, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Spain and Turkey / Orient on offer to collectors. 10 cards for 0,80 Mark and 100 for 5 Mark.
Many O. Zieher cards were printed by Emil Pinkau & Co AG, Leipzig, Saxony. A combined printing process called “Heliochrom” by Emil Pinkau & Co., another of the long-established, huge postcard factories from Leipzig, was offered from c. 1901 on. Ottmar Zieher of Munich and Bavaria between 1897 to 1908 printed postcards that are copied to this date, from 1902 to 1905 he did several hundred that show the various nations coat-of-arms and their postage stamps on the obverse.