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The Postcard Album (TPA) is strictly a non-commercial hobby project published when time and funds allow.
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TPA issue 35
80 packed pages (size 210 x 297 mm) in full colour, soft-bound.
Major topics of this issue:
– The story of Erste Schlesische Lichtdruck- und graph. Kunstanstalt A. Fabian & Co., Breslau and successor
– More on Reinicke & Rubin, Magdeburg
– C.G. Roeder, Leipzig and their Heliodore card designs
– Schaar & Dathe company history incl. old photos
– The Importance of C.G. Roeder to Canada‘s Rumsey & Co. by Michael Smith
– Miss Annie S. Peck by Natascha Lara Bisch
– Printing Mistakes and other Trouble
– "What‘s a Rexall?" by Frank A. Sternad
– Collecting Postcards with Postcards? Part 2
– The Dresden Photo Card factory of Berlin-Neuroder Kunstanstalten (BNK)
– More on Paul Finkenrath, Berlin
– The End of J. Miesler, Berlin
and much more!
TPA issue 34
84 packed pages (size 210 x 297 mm) in full colour, soft-bound.
Major topics of this issue:
– The "Bx" Matter / artist Hans Rudolf Schulze
– Postcard publisher/printer Wilhelm Greve, Berlin
– Black Sheep in Postcard Trade
– Trau/Claus/Schwab/Kolbe/Schlicht – an entertaining printer‘s story from Dresden
– The Ernst Schneider, Berlin Connection by Jean Ritsema
– Some Observations on early LL Cards by Geoff Ashton
– Paul Pittius, Berlin, part 2
– Collecting Postcards on Postcards?
– Nenke & Ostermaier, Dresden, part 3
– Edward H. Mitchell. Publisher of Pacific Coast Souvenirs, part 2, by Frank A. Sternad
– Int‘l Ansichtskarten-Gesellschaft, Berlin. The Atlas Series/Australia by Alan McNaughton
and much more!
TPA issue 33
80 packed pages (size 210 x 297 mm) in full colour, soft-bound. LIMITED STOCK!
Major topics of this issue:
– Two Postcard Printers from Coburg
– The Importance of Emil Pinkau & Co To Canada‘s Stedman Bros. by Mike Smith
– Wiskott + Fleming + Dondorf + Pittius Connection
– Nenke & Ostermaier, Dresden part 2
– Postcarding Ethnicity in Central and Eastern Europe 1890-1920
– Tinsel - Glitter - Glimmer - Mica
– Photographic Music Cards by Jim Schofield
– Twilight Cards? Firesight Cards?
– Edward H. Mitchell. Publisher of Pacific Coast Souvenirs by Frank A. Sternad
– Otto Bollhagen and other Stories
and much more!
TPA issue 32
80 packed pages (size 210 x 297 mm) in full colour, soft-bound. (Reprint)
Major topics of this issue:
– JOS-PE Hamburg
– American News Company (ANC)
– Stange & Wagner, Berlin
– Nenke & Ostermaier, Dresden part 1
– La Paz, Bolivia, on early Postcards by Natascha Lara Bisch
– "Phototyped in Frankfurt/Main" - various Printers
– Carl A. Lindeberg by Arne Sandstroem
– Ilse Wende Lungershausen by Ulf S. Graupner
– Schaar & Dathe, Trier
– Postcards: The older the better?
and much more!
TPA issue 30
40 packed pages (size 210 x 297 mm) professionally printed in full colour
Major topics of this issue:
– Wezel & Naumann, Leipzig, company history
– WW1: Russian cards printed in Germany
– Myrtle Elvyn. American Concert Pianist by Jean Ritsema
– PPC printer E. Baensch jr., Magdeburg
– "Brushstroke Postcards" by Gerrit Bothof
– "Erotic" Postcards(?)
– Who was Salač?
and more...
TPA issue 29
40 packed pages (size 210 x 297 mm) professionally printed in full colour
Major topics of this issue:
– The Esmeralda Sisters/G.G. & Co. by Jean Ritsema
– Georg Gerlach & Co., Berlin
– Pinkau‘s "Freemason Code" by George Webber
– Otto Schloss, Berlin
– WW1 postcards designed by soldiers
– The "BL" Case
– Trademarks Identified
– Georg Stilke, Berlin/Hamburg
and more...
TPA issue 28
40 packed pages (size 210 x 297 mm) professionally printed in full colour
Major topics of this issue:
– Paul Suess, Dresden/Muegeln
– Arthur Schwarz, NPG
– Knackstedt & Naether research file 7:
The rise and fall of "The Rotograph Co.", New York, NPG and other associated firms
– Helgoland/Heligoland by Dieter Leutert
– Max Breslauer, Leipzig
– WW1 in colour-after-nature
– Tver, Russia, by Alexander Semenov
– The Obpacher Bros./Winsch case
and more...
TPA issue 27
40 packed pages (size 210 x 297 mm) professionally printed in full colour
Major topics of this issue:
– Reinicke & Rubin, Magdeburg/Dresden
– Guggenheim & Co., Zurich, by Ruth Freiburghaus
– Doeberitz: military training area - P.O.W. camp - Olympic village
– Knackstedt & Naether, Hamburg, research file 6
– "Postcard Twins"
– Dr. Trenkler & Co. AG 1920‘s card codes by George Webber
– Printing sample card flop
– Hermann Wolff, Berlin
and more...
TPA issue 26
40 packed pages (size 210 x 297 mm) professionally printed in full colour
Major topics of this issue:
– A Cruise in the Mediterramean (reprint)
A Visit to Egypt in 1906
– Lichtenstern & Harari/The Cairo Postcard Trust
– British cards by Swiss Kuenzli Bros.
– Weco = Hans Wiesner & Co., Berlin
– Talking/Gramophone cards / "Weco" patent by Jos Hocks
– Martin Schlesinger, Berlin
– Chester - a touristic city by Chris Ratcliffe
and more...
TPA issue 25
40 packed pages (size 210 x 297 mm) professionally colour printed.
Note: actually some 20 copies left in stock
Major topics of this issue:
– Paul Finkenrath, Berlin
– J. Miesler, Berlin
– Paul Grasnick, Berlin
– "Printed in Bavaria" companies
– Missionary Postcards
– Happy Whitsun
– A. Sala, Berlin
– Picture Postcards from the 1950-60‘s
and more...
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