Istoria realizării Marii Uniri într-o carte poştală ilustrată
The history of making the Great Union on an illustrated postcard

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on an illustrated postcard loaded with history which confirms the value of a deltiological piece of various valences. Looking at this image, we are transposing ourselves in time, "following" the path of making of the most sacred ideal of the Romanians - national unity.The illustrated postcard, titled In memory of the great ideal: the union of all Romanians, became part of the deltiology collection of the National Museum of History of Moldova in 1990 when it was donated by brothers Grigore and Gheorghe Marinescu from Bucharest. This is a colorful image with a satisfactory conservation status, published at the crossroads of 1918 and 1919, uncirculated, lacking information about the place of publication, publishing house and author of the illustrative message.The postcard represents a brief history of achieving an old ideal, illustrating the events up to December 1, 1918: The Revolution of 1848, World War I (1914-1916) with the glorious battles of Mărăşeşti, Măreşti şi Oituz. On the postcard are depicted also the faces of three statesmen that made the union in different periods of time: Mihai Viteazul (1558-1601), a precursor of the unification of the Romanians in 1600, Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1820-1873), under whose direction the Romanian Principalities united in 1859 (Little Union) and King Ferdinand I (1865-1927) (the Encloser) in 1918.The special graphics, the unusual appearance, the presentation and the historical data they contain make this postcard an original postal unit that stops the moment for posterity in the study of Romanian History.

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