Dean,

Another great addition to your collection and the graphic-arts thread. One normally expects to see this subject associated with the SS but this seems more in tune with the Luftwaffe, as there are nine aircraft above the raptor.

The artwork seems to be a hand-engraved and embossed print on first quality cover stock. The paper may also be handmade, does it have a deckle-edge? Looking at the second photo, I see it does. All earmarks of high quality in the printing trade.

I haven't looked up the artist but he was certainly very talented. The images are lovely as well as the typeface he chose for the lettering that carries that old Germanic look and feel to the message. Can you imagine how tedious it was to cut all those tiny lines in the graduated sunlight, especially at that small of an image size?

The caption goes something like this ...

"A light-filled summer solstice
and a persistantly lucky year in 1937!
The Ancestoral Father"

Many thanks and best regards!

Bill