Regel & Krug Postcards

Final comments / Some R&K cards (from many...)

R&K started off with topo cards in first place. Likely they were also contract printers for a number of postcard publishers when their "Heliochrom" card process came on the market.

However, greetings and subject card series may have offered a better profit margin, same designs could be used in other countries, too. Especially with growing competition of other postcards with views printers in Germany. Except few chromolitho cards with greeting topics from around the turn of the century, the mass of R&K‘s cards I have accumulated over the years is of post-1906 origin. Late that year the company moved into their new erected factory, installed real photo printing and gave greetings/subject cards and real photo card issues priority.
Now they had room for more die stamping presses and a shop for gelatine foil finish, either glossy or matte look. Some do show special die stamping effects, others with silhouettes embossed in gold or silver on top of glossy finish. A special process said to had been introduced first by the big fancy paper works of W. Hagelberg AG, Berlin.