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2019-05-27

G.020.3 - Merry Christmas

To: Gustav Ekman, Storegården, Fristad
From: Gustav Nilsson
Postmark/date: ?
More likely to be December 1901 than 1902, as other Christmas cards from 1902 are addressed to Gustav at Port Allegany, Pennsylvania, North America. (Unless this is from a friend who did not know his new address, and the family at Storegården sent it on.)

En glad och treflig jul och godt nytt år.
Tillönskas af
Gustav Nilsson

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
Gustav Nilsson

2013-06-17

G.016.3 Borgholms Slottsruin/ Borgholm Castle

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Oskrivet och odaterat vykort, troligen ca 1902.
Förlag: Hjalmar Appeltoffts Bokhandel.

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Enligt en uppgift jag fann vid sökning på internet grundades Hjalmar Appeltoffts Bokhandel år 1885 i Kalmar.

In English

Unwritten and undated postcard, probably ~ 1902.
Published by Hjalmar Appeltoffts Bokhandel (bookshop), Kalmar (founded in 1885).

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Borgholm is the main city of Öland [island off the east coast of Sweden], but one of the smallest cities in Sweden. The city received its charter in 1816 and emerged as a spa-town in the shadow of the ruins of the once mighty Borgholm Castle, which burned down in 1806.

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Borgholm Castle, 2006 (image from Wikimedia Commons)

2013-06-16

G.016.2 Brahehus + Diversehandel, Gränna

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Brahehus, Grenna [Gränna] (oskrivet vykort/unwritten card)

Förlag: Gottfrid Gustafsson, Grenna
Import: Gust. Lundgren & C:o, Norrköping
100 P (?)
Okänt tryckår, men troligen från ca 1902

Brahehus är ruinen uppe på kullen i bakgrunden.
I förgrunden ser vi (enligt skylten ovanför dörren)

GOTTFRID GUSTAFSSON
Speceri och
DIVERSEHANDEL.

Antagligen är det väl Gottfrid Gustafsson själv som står vid staketet t.v. (?)

Den största skylten på väggen under fönstret är reklam för
Mazettis Choklad & Cacao

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Mazetti chokladfabrik startades 1888 av Emil Mazetti Nissen och firman hette ursprungligen Malmö Choklad och konfektfabriks AB. Firmamärket var från början en dalkulla med en stor chokladbit. På 1890-talet bytte man namn till Mazetti.

Jag hittade denna bild (via Google Image Search) på Brobygubbens Bildblogg, 24 september 2006
http://blogg.aftonbladet.se/45?page=29&pageSize=25

In English

Brahehus, Gränna, Sweden, 2010 (Wikimedia Commons)

Brahehus Castle was built for Count Per Brahe the Younger in the 1640s. The ruins are situated at Gränna in Jönköping County in the province of Småland, Sweden. From the ruins you have a view of lake Vättern and the island of Visingsö.

Brahehus is the ruin on top of the hill in the background in the old postcard. The building in front is a country store owned by Gottfrid Gustafsson. (My guess is that Gottfrid is the man standing by the fence to the left.) There is no year printed on this unwritten card but it’s probably from around 1902 (as it has been placed together with other cards from that period in the album).

On the wall by the window there are some advertising signs. The biggest of these is for Mazetti Chocolates and Cocoa. The Mazetti chocolate factory in Malmö, Sweden, was founded in 1888 by Emil Mazetti Nissen. There is still a chocolate factory in the original premises, but now under a different name.