Glass & Tuscher Postcards

G&T Codes and Customers

This company printed for customers in various European countries and elsewhere, too. Including contract printing for popular then postcard publishers.
As said before, G&T set up their company at a time when the conditions in the ppc trade began to become difficult. First signs of overproduction and price competiton, especially for collotype printed cards, were noticed. Some companies forced to close down or taken over. To my surprise G&T exported cards to Canada from about 1907 to 1913 according code imprints. Many of these cards were coloured issues.

I illustrate G&T‘s four major postcard code imprint versions in chronlogical order. Usually found imprinted at the lower right corner position on address side. Then in 1926 the code was moved temporarily to the left corner position. But not for long. Starting with the next year the G&T Alphabet Code was found arranged in the center of the stamp box. This position was used until WW2 years. Not so good for research when the card was postally used, the code hidden below postage stamp. Without the code, identification of G&T printed cards becomes a difficult task. By the way, Glass & Tuscher continued to work for some publishers outside Germany in the 1920-30‘s.
The majority of the cards in the traditional then format 140 x 90 mm. By late 1920‘s they began to offer also printing cards in the new standard 148 x 105 mm size. I do have an original G&T promo card set with price list dating from 1938. To my great surprise they did offer now also production of bromide real photo cards. However, I have never seen any such cards yet. They were big in real photo imitation (glazed collotype printed cards). Similar to other German postcards printers in business then. Real photo cards had become expensive.

Below I illustrate some G&T card issues and designs. Have many more. If you have any questions, please let me know.