Vintage Postcards: Charity, Fundraiser & Building-Brick Postcards
Welcome to our thematic category for vintage charity, fundraiser, and building-brick postcards (Baustein-Karten)! As early as the late 19th and early 20th centuries, picture postcards were specifically issued to raise funds for charitable causes, the construction of churches and monuments, welfare organizations, and relief efforts during wars and crises. These distinctive keepsakes are compelling eyewitnesses to social history and civic philanthropy. At NOBIS24.com, you will discover guaranteed originals from the German Imperial era, the Weimar Republic, and the 20th century—including scarce "building-brick" fundraiser cards with printed donation denominations, Red Cross issues, and historical welfare postcards.
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What awaits you in our "Charity & Fundraiser Postcards" category:
- Building-Brick Cards (Baustein-Karten): Historical fundraiser postcards sold to finance the construction or preservation of churches, towers, monuments, clubhouses, or community institutions—frequently featuring printed donation values.
- War Relief & Red Cross (WWI & WWII): Scarce welfare postcards benefiting wounded soldiers, prisoners of war, widows, and orphans, alongside historical Red Cross and wartime charity issues.
- Welfare Organizations & Relief Societies: Documentary cards issued by social welfare associations, church charities, Winter Relief (WHW), child protection societies, and organizations supporting the blind.
- Artistic Charity Issues: Finely illustrated fundraiser postcards designed by noted artists for charitable causes—available both unused and postally used with period stamps and special cancellations.