Ancient Guns of Saalburg, Vintage Postcard, Old Replicas, Hesse Germany, 1912

Dimensions: 9 x 14.1 cm. (3.5 x 5.5″)

Publisher/Editor: J. Becker, Homburg

Condition: Postally unused, backside written. Good condition.

Notes: Reconstruction by Colonel Schramm in Metz. (The oldest replicas are already 120 years old themselves and were made at the time by the Prussian artillery colonel Erwin Schramm with the promotion of the German Emperor Wilhelm II.)

The Saalburg is a Roman fort located on the main ridge of the Taunus, northwest of Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany. It is a cohort fort, part of the Limes Germanicus, the Roman linear border fortification of the German provinces. (Wikipedia)