I got this pipe organ postcard as a trade via Postcrossing. I joined Postcrossing in April 2021 and have about a dozen cards sent and received so far. This was a direct trade. I was trying to get rid of one card, a cathedral interior that at one time I thought had an organ in it (it does not). I wound up trading away a different card, but got this one from Germany for it. It shows the organ in the Pellworm Alte Kirche. It is a Schnitger instrument from 1711. Here is a nice article with details. My card is sepia-toned, in mint condition. The reverse gives a very short summary of the instrument and location. Also, "Verlag F. Spacek & Co, 2250 Husum, Lorenz-Lassen-Str. 28. Pellworm is located on an island in the North Sea off the German coast. Husum is the nearest and most directly-accessible larger town on the mainland. Both are quite near the border with Denmark. I received the card below from a friend. It is a prepaid German postal card with an impression of a fairly common definitive issue (the President Gustav Heinemann series of the early 1970's). It shows a color image of the exterior of the Pellworm church. I enjoyed the serendipity of coming across a postcard of a church organ and a postcard of the same church's exterior in my collection.
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