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Blue crown = Sweden. A dog = the Turks. A frog = an injured French.

In and around 1645, at the end of the #ThirtyYearsWar, you needed advice, help and commentary to make sense of the imagery used in the media ensemble around you. Such advice was offered in the "Postilion".
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Three blacks in a yellow field = Spain and Portugal. Half moon = a Turk. Black clams = the city of Trier.

The codes needed to understand this visual language used in woodcuts and copper plate prints were orally explained and shared all over Europe. It has been called ...

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...the silent language of the illiterates. Imagery was understood by many - though often wrongly or incorrect or only partly, or with help by someone helping interpreting. And in war times, the codes of this imagery changed and developed rapidly.
The "Postilion" offered help.
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