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Company name:
Leipziger Ansichtskartenfabrik Paul Trabert, and later: Graphische Kunstanstalt Paul Trabert
Address: Leipzig-Plagwitz, Erdmannstr. 10 – Leipzig-Schleussig, Sennestr. 24 and Könneritzstr. 43 (1925) – Steubenstr. 24 (1939)
In business from: 1901 until at least late 1960’s
Printer: yes Publisher: yes
Means of production / workforce: 7 collotype, 4 litho presses, 44 workers (1913) – by 1921 with only 5 workers around – 2 offset, 3 litho, 2 collotype, 42 workers (1925) – 7 offset, 5 flatbed litho / 8 hand-litho presses, 2 letterpress and 12 embossing presses, 60 other machines, 150 workers (1928) – 5 offset, 1 flatbed litho / 8 hand-litho presses etc. but down to 30 workers (1933) – 3 offset, 2 embossing presses, 25 workers (1939) – 3 offset presses, 37 workers (1950)
Trademark(s): on own g enre cards before 1945. Whether Trabert used a logo or his initials on contract printing is not known
Specialised in: contract collotype printer until end of WW1 with own publishing dept. “Art de Vienne” Reorganised in the early 1920’s and concentrated on packaging printing. Post-WW2 in label and poster printing.
Notes: Always run by members of the Trabert family. Offered printing of 1000 monochrome collotype postcards within 4 days in 1906. Many of their ‘Art de Vienne’ series cards are of excellent quality, well worth collecting.
Illustrations (from top):
P.T.L. card no. 2105, hand coloured, embossed, signature illegible, p/u 1911
P.T.L. card no. 549, hand-/stencel coloured, p/u 1916
P.T.L. card 537/4, machine-coloured Easter Greetings, p/u 1916
P.T.L. card 2178, Whitsun greetings, collotype with hand / stencil colouring, plate-sunk. Not p/u, post-1905 origin.
P.T.L. card 123, the figure ‘3’ added by hand. P/u 1913 in Austro-Hungaria, mailed to an address in Trieste. Caption on picture side reads ‘Buona Pasqua!’. Odd piece!
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