Original typewritten postcard from Jan Hartong sent to Ilja Mikan, dated 20 June 1960. The postcard is written in German and has J. Hartong's original signature at the end. Size 15 x 10,5 cm.

Jan Hartong (11 February 1902 - 29 January 1987) was a Dutch composer. International Master of composition and International Judge for chess composition. He composed 1143 problems, mostly strategic two and three-movers. 400 problems of Jan Hartong were published in M. Niemeijer's Twee zielen en Twee gedachten (1959), where his work is compared with that of Lev Loshinsky.

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: minor soiling and a few small folds.