Other Foreign Forces

An Illustrated History of the Embroidered Silk Postcards is the standard reference book on embroidered silk postcards. It contains references to over 2600 different cards with over 270 illustrations. The Listings on this website list cards discovered since the book was published, plus an additional section on Greetings Cards. The new additions are shown in RED.

Embroidered silk postcards exist for military units from Switzerland and the United States. The Swiss forces were essentially Border Forces to protect the country from alien forces, and people fleeing the war zones in the rest of Europe. Most caption on the cards include the German word GRENZBESETZUNG, which translates as frontier occupation. A few cards are known from the Second World War and they have an appliquéd embroidered designs. All Swiss military cards are very rare.

The United States did not enter the First World War until April 1917, so their military cards are less widely available than those of most other countries. Most of the cards that do exist have unique designs not seen elsewhere. The publishers seem to have sourced the silk panels from Switzerland and manufactured them in the United States. United States military cards are rare to very rare.

Images of a representative selection of cards are shown beneath the listings.

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