[Carte Postale] - Valkenburg

[Carte Postale] - Valkenburg [481 pcs] - Maastricht / [etc.] - J. Waltmans / [etc.] - [ca 1900-1990] - 1st edition - 7 parts - Plastic folders - 24 x 31 cm.

Condition: Good set - ADDED: 83 loose cards (one of the Wilhelminatoren).

Collection of 481 (mostly) different old postcards ('cartes postales') of Valkenburg aan de Geul in Limburg. The cards (black and white / sepia, polychrome) are circulated (310) and uncirculated (171), CAREFULLY attached at four points on an A4 sheet, always printed with specifications, stored in a plastic sleeve. The work of a loving collector.

Publishers of the (some lithographed) postcards are i.a. Algemeene Postvereeniging; Joseph Crolla and Guill. Bours (both Valkenburg); v/h Weenenk & Snel from The Hague and Jospé in Arnhem. Period approx. 1900-1990; mostly early 20th century and from the 1950s and 1960s; some after 1970.

¶ Five folders contain 358 cards presenting the Castle Ruins (view, interior and panoramas); one folder with a focus on the BERKELPOORT (Berkelstraat / Neerhem; 72 items) and one folder contains exclusively postcards of the GRENDELPOORT and surroundings (Grendelplein; 51 items). Two are so-called flap cards, filled with a kind of mini photo booklets.