Antique costume print titled 'Mädchen aus Leksand in Dalekarlien, Schweden'. Old print showing a girl from Leksand, Sweden. This print originates from 'Blätter für Kostümkunde'.
Leksand is a locality and the seat of Leksand Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with around 6000 inhabitants. Leksand is famous for the Leksands IF ice hockey team, who have won 4 Swedish Championships. Leksand is also home to the Leksands Baseball and Softball Club, the oldest and one of the more successful baseball clubs in Sweden, having won 20 national championships in baseball and 7 in softball. The club was founded in the late 1950s and currently has about 130 members. Additionally, Leksand is home to the Baseball Academy Leksand, a Major League Baseball (MLB)-sponsored academy established in 2006. The academy is part of a broader drive by MLB to develop European talent through a system of baseball academies across the continent, and is the only such academy in Sweden.
Artists and Engravers: Published by Franz Lipperheide, a German publisher of fashion magazines.
Condition: Fair, general age-related toning. Large horizontal crease. Shows overall wear/creasing and soiling. Text mounted to verso. Please study image carefully.
Date: c.1880 Overall size: 20 x 28 cm. Image size: 13 x 17.5 cm.
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