Historic Opera

COLLECTING OPERA POSTCARD SETS

Reward Cards

These cards are very common and generally inexpensive. Some have plain backs and some have biographical information. They aren't postcards but rather cards that were given, as the name implies, as rewards for good deeds or lessons. They came in envelope packets like the one seen at the left.

The following cards have been identified: 

  • Beethoven - Birthplace
  • Brahms - Birthplace
  • Chopin - Birthplace
  • Debussy
  • Elgar
  • Gluck
  • Gounod - Birthplace
  • Gounod - Birthplace
  • Haendel - Birthplace
  • Haydn - Birthplace
  • Liszt - Birthplace
  • Massenet - Scene from Thaïs
  • Mendelssohn - Birthplace
  • Moszkowski - In his study
  • Mozart - Birthplace
  • Rimsky-Korsakow - Opera House, Moscow
  • Rossini - Birthplace
  • Saint-Saëns - Scene from Samson and Delilah (seen left)
  • Schubert - Birthplace
  • Robert Schumann - Birthplace
  • Sibelius
  • Tschaikowsky - Birthplace
  • Verdi - Birthplace
  • von Bulow - Bayreuth Opera House
  • Wagner - Birthplace
  • Weber - Birthplace
Similarly Styled Postcards:
  • von Geothe - House - Series 1, No. 15915
 
 
SET SAMPLE

Above: Reward Cards - Envelope

Above: Reward Cards - Camille Saint-Saëns
 
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