Shadows of a Forgotten World

P.S. Located in tiny courtyard of old building, which houses a very delicious vegetarian restaurant.

Most of the antique roller shutters that I found were made by the company DUKO, which also made shutters for Mukachevo , thus they likely date from the interwar period. Antique shutters made by other companies. I've seen the same lion symbol on shutters in  Vienna , Berehovo , and Lviv.

"Vodovod" means "water supply" in Czech František Friedl Praha Radlická Slévárna (Radlice Foundry) Likely dates from interwar period Ústřední elektrická stanice královského hlavního města Prahy The Central Electric Station of the Royal Capital City of Prague (The power plant was built in 1898)

Two types of forgotten urban sanitation means: Boot Scraper Urine Deflector

These bilingual German and Czech street signs (some include descriptive house numbers) date from before WWI, likely before 1892 when the Czech-controlled City Hall decided to replace the city's bilingual street signs with exclusively Czech ones. 

Before Empress Maria Theresa introduced identifying numbers to Prague in 1770, houses were known and located by allegorical symbols. Many of them originally had alchemical significance. The Two Suns The Golden Key Castle goldsmiths lived in this house in the 17th century They paid fees to the city and thus were entitled to advertise their wares  The Red Lamb  The Three Fiddles A family of violin makers lived in this house in the early 18th century The Golden Wheel This alchemic symbols represents a stage in the magnus opus ,  the process by which lead purportedly turned into gold  The White Lion