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Welcome to “The Postcard Album”
“The Postcard Album” (TPA), an international publication for collectors of old picture postcards (ppc’s), is around for more than 25 years. A hobby project, non-profit orientated, published when time and budget allows.
TPA covers various aspects of interest to ppc collectors. Research on old, long gone (German) postcard printers and publishers has become the major topic during the past years. It is quite a specialised aspect of the postcard collecting hobby, probably not of interest to everyone, many never thought of much before. Not surprising as serious information on the old postcard industry is generally not often found in ppc related publications and books.
The work of myself together with other interested collectors from various countries is to reconstruct company histories, find data on their ppc production, identifying trademarks and other facts which are then published in TPA or on this web site = to make available to interested persons.
Take a look at some of the ppc research features, historical background, major German postcard printers/exporters, logo’s and trademarks, the magazine (which is of course much more detailed than this site!), postcard finds and trivia etc.
Please visit also the Can you help? page when time. Perhaps it is you who could help to solve a postcard related matter, eg. identify a printer or publisher logo, have a ‘key’ card in your collection, help with translation... or you probably know someone else to contact. Your assistance is appreciated!
This hobby web site will be updated regularly (as time permits). I recommend to visit the Latest News page (now also with “Book Reviews) from time to time. For information on (new) site contents, the next TPA magazine (no. 25 is the actual issue) etc.
Thank you!
Helmfried Luers
TPA publisher/editor
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