Original set of three old postcards illustrating hospitality and social life in Belgium at the beginning of the 20th century, including one circulated during the First World War.
🔹 Gendron-Celles – Hôtel du Centre and Romanesque church
View of the hotel adjoining the Romanesque church (10th century), a listed monument. A typical scene of a tourist village in the Ardennes. Publisher: Closset-Duculot.
📌 Period: circa 1910-1920.
🔹 Genval – Grand Hôtel des Familles (owner P. Libouton)
Advertising card for a grand resort hotel, with modern features for the time (telephone, garden, proximity to the train station).
➡️ Special feature: card circulated under German occupation, franked with two Deutsches Reich stamps overprinted Belgien (1914-1918). A rare historical and philatelic document.
📌 Period: pre-1914 for the photo, circulation during the Great War.
🔹 Near Corbion – Poupehan – Café de la Chaise à Percher
Card showing a rural café with customers posing in front, on the road from Corbion to Poupehan. Publisher: L. Couvert, Photo Corbion.
📌 Period: 1920s-1930s.
Dimensions: +/- 14 cm X 8.7 cm each.
📌 Theme: tourism, hospitality and cafés in old Belgium – historical interest reinforced by the Genval card circulated under German occupation.
📌 Condition: good overall condition, one card circulated with interesting franking.
An original lot that will appeal to collectors of old postcards, lovers of tourist history and Belgian regional heritage.
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