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Introduction
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SOKOL POSTCARDS
1921
(Click on any image to view an enlarged version)
1921 seems to have been a year of extraordinary local activity for
Czech Sokols.
Below, unused advertising postcard "Remember the Sokol Festival"
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The artist for all three cards at left above is František Hornik,
who also did the poster for the 1912 All-Sokol Slet in Prague.
The fourth card, on the right, is a photo by
František Drtikol (1883-1961),
a very successful and famous - some would say notorious -
Czech photographer who specialized for a while in
(mostly female) nudes, and had a great influence on modern photography.
He did photos for several Sokol postcards, but I cannot find out
whether he was himself a member.
Below, a poster stamp for this Slet, with the Hornik image.
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Čakovice is a district of Prague
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Above, special
stamp collars,
issued for this Slet, with postage stamps affixed.
Text on collars:
There is a rather strange story about these collars, but I cannot verify it,
though it makes sense, sort of, and there has to be an explanation.
The Sokols of Osijec were planning a large Slet, and petitioned the post office
to issue a special stamp to honor the event. I've no idea why they thought
that could happen, such stamps had not been issued before, but they tried
anyway. The post office refused to issue a stamp, but instead - amazingly - offered to
produce the stamp collars/labels shown above, announcing the Slet,
and to allow them to be used
with the newly issued stamps showing newly-crowned King Alexander and
recently deceased King Peter. There are twelve in all,
six with text in the Roman alphabet, six in Cyrillic. Their colors match
the six lower denominations of the postage stamps. I have never seen one
of the labels without its matching stamp pasted on it, so assume that was the only
way to get them. There was also a special Sokol-themed red cancel.
Most of the examples of these I have seen are canceled, so mint ones
may be scarce. The inscription at the bottom says they were produced
in Osijek, and that may have been the only place they were available.
CAN YOU CONFIRM THIS STORY? MORE DETAILS, PLEASE.
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Fund-raising stamp for Sokol club-house/gymnasium.
8/30/18 - This was on my 1928 page, since that's when
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Dorostenci D.T.J. (S.D.T.J. or F.D.T.J.) na Maninách 1921
DTJ: In 1897, dissatisfied with the political attitudes of the Sokol
This card was a souvenir (upominka) of a Slet in Chicago, USA,
but I am showing it here because it was printed in Prague,
though it was published by a Chicago firm
(
F. Pancner), and I assume
distributed only in America. I just don't think there were a lot
of Czech Sokols ready to hop on a boat to America in 1921.
But I have to say its production quality is much higher than
the American cards of the period that I have seen, so that may
explain why the publisher went to the trouble to have it done
in Prague, where Sokol cards were a high art.
But then again, look at the USA page, 1909 Chicago. A Czech
contingent made the trip to America to participate in that
Slet, so why not this one too? Especially since this is
after independence.
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