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Username: lorisgiano
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| | Inviato il sabato 31 dicembre 2011 - 20:33: |     |
Cari amici. Vorrei farvi i miei migliori Auguri per uno splendido 2012 con questo nuovo post. Spero cosa gradita e auguri a tutti !
Per chi è socio del 356 Registry riceverà a breve per posta la relativa rivista gennaio-febbraio 2012. L'ultimo articolo nella sezione "Tail Lights" è un mio breve racconto su alcune cartoline "made in Ticino" rappresentanti una 356 split window.
Per coloro invece che non sono soci, di seguito il minuscolo testo in inglese e alcune foto.
"Changing Scenery
A couple of years ago I found and bought an interesting Swiss postcard representing a split-window Porsche 356 (plate TI 36xx) climbing a hill, and in the background Lake Lugano (Lugano is today a small town with about 53,000 inhabitants, located in the South of Switzerland, Canton Ticino).
The postcard is dated (with stamp) 5th September 1953 and is one of the early non-factory commercial postcards representing a 356, but could this be the earliest ?
To my surprise, in the past months I found two additional postcards with the same car but this time portraying as background the small towns of Chiasso and Bellinzona, which are located about 15 miles away from Lugano. A great photomontage of the 1950s !
These "discoveries" were for me so intriguing that I decided to contact the actual owner of the license plate "TI 36xx" to learn something more, if that was possible. Luckily, the actual plate's owner, Ms. Doris, could be very helpful because she got the plate directly from the splitwindow owner, Mr. Mayr. I found out that Mr. Mayr (now deceased) was a typographer with his own printing house and produced those postcards himself. This is a further confirmation that the Pre-A on the postcards really existed and the person at the wheel is Mr. Mayr's wife.
I don’t know how many postcards like these were produced in the early ‘50s, but one thing is sure, some were Swiss made!"
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