Original typewritten postcard from Moriz Henneberger sent to Ilja Mikan, dated 11 April 1950. The postcard is written in German and has M. Henneberger's original signature at the end. Size 14,5 x 10,5 cm.

Moriz Henneberger (16 October 1878 - 7 April 1959) was a Swiss chess master and composer. As a player he won the Swiss championship five times - 1899, 1906 (jointly), 1909, 1911 (jointly), and 1914 (jointly) and played for Switzerland at the 2nd Chess Olympiad in Hague 1928. He is the author of books on problem chess: Juchli's Chess Problems (1908, together with Josef Juchli and Alain C. White) and Alpine Chess (1921) that belongs in A . C. White's Christmas Series. For many years he was also a problem editor of the Schweizerische Schachzeitung. By profession he was a mathematics teacher in Basel.

Ilja Mikan (12 January 1911 - 12 April 1979) was a Czech composer. International Master of composition and judge for chess composition. He composed around 1200 problems, especially selfmates and three-movers in Bohemian school. He achieved 49.5 points in the FIDE Albums, won more than 215 awards, including 28 first and 47 other prizes. He was the editor of the problem section in the Czech chess magazines Sach, Ceskoslovensky sach and Sachove umeni, ran many chess columns and wrote many articles and books - Rychle vitezstvi (1947), 13 volumes of Gallery of Czechoslovak  composers (1965-75), Dobrodruzstvi 64 poli (collection of own problems, 1973) Ceske granaty 1898-1958 (works of Miroslav Havel, 1975). For many years he worked in the Czechoslovak chess organisation of composition chess and owned one of the most extensive chess libraries in Czechoslovakia.

Condition - Good: there are two archive holes on the edges, see photo.