This badly damaged Easter postcard, with its image of children and chickens worshipping a child-sized pink egg, is quite the mystery. Would be very happy to get some feedback and insight, starting with the language and translation of
the text at the top of the card (see closeup below). After some internet searching, my very tentative guess is that this is
Kurrent, an old form of Germany handwriting based on medieval cursive, according to Wikipedia. It's also known as
Kurrentschrift or
deutsche Schrift. It was phased out in schools and eventually became obsolete starting in the 1910s. Am I way off? What do you think?
The back of the postcard adds to the mystery and I have little insight beyond some more guesses. One guess on my part is that the
9 4 13 in the postmark signifies April 9, 1913. That's a good bit after Easter, though, which I believe was March 23 in 1913. Meanwhile, the word
ВЕНДЕНЪ appears in the first postmark. Again with some internet help, I'm going to guess this is (1) a place name, (2) pre-revolutionary Russian, written in
Cyrillic script. Clearly different from the printed script on the front of the card. And what place is
ВЕНДЕНЪ? That may translate to Wenden, of which there were several in Germany. There's also
Cēsis, Latvia, for which the German name is Wenden. The second postmark contains the word
ЛИГАТЪ, but I can't glean much insight from that.
Please share your thoughts and clues regarding this fascinating very old postcard!
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