Found In An Old Envelope: Introduction Card?

This may be stretching the point of something that is stamp collecting-related, but as a postal history item, I came upon this card in an old envelope that I think was dated back to the 1920's or 1930's from Boston, MA:



Does the name mean anything to anyone? I've always been intrigued by the title "Count". The Ritz-Carlton reference, I believe, is from the (former) Boston location. Other than that, it sits in a page protector among my cover collection.

Has Elvis overtones,
returning home to do Military Service...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstra...405B848DF1D3

ah google... this was easy.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archiv...405B848DF1D3

Beat you by 2 minutes


BTW: interesting card, probably highly desirable
by Hotel Card collectors, genealogy types...
esp with such a high profile gent.

Thanks!

The article you provided dates to 1914 when he was 21. So the card I have probably dates 10 or 20 years later to the mid-1920's or 1930's. I wonder what he wound up doing in later life, as he was noted to be a bank clerk in 1914.

It'll be an interesting research project for me.

By the way, this is a much more well known introduction card that I found at approximately the same time. What's interesting about this is the handwritting and the person named "Miss Rutherford" was acutally at her wedding, according to news accounts of that high profile event:

Hmmm, script doesn't match the occaision,
backward sloping and somewhat childish handwriting.
I'd guess not well educated.
Maybe a valet note or an employee of some kind.

Wt1
I read about Count Günter Bernstorff.


The New York Times
March 22, 1914

That's what is known as a "calling card."

It's what you put on the butler's little silver tray when you visited someone. Actually lots of people had them a hundred years ago - it was kind of a necessary thing - butler or no.

Seems he went on to become a member of the Great General Staff. This was the German military's great think tank which had the job of establishing the tactics and strategy for the entire German military from 1817 through World War II.