Trade cards, Cigarette cards, Labels, etc.

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Bon Marché card -'Old Paris' Exhibition in 1900
Number 7 of 12 was 'Printing'   The reverse of the card is an advertisement for the store

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'The Bookbinder' - old colored lithograph b. Scribes in Esslingen, around 1860

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Spar Matchbox cover from 1965.   Friedrich Konig, along with Andreas Bauer, built a high speed printing press in the early 1800's which could print over 1000 sheets per hour. 

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During the two world wars there was a shortage of coins and banknotes in Germany and Austria due to the expansion of German territories and there not being enough physical cash to meet the demand of new users. As a result of the cash shortage, the state bank allowed individual towns to cities to print their own banknotes and mint their own coins. They were called notgeld or "emergency money" which is the literal transaltion from German.

Issued on 31 July 1921 in Pössneck   25 Pfennig note shows a web-fed rotary press

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Issued on the same day as the 25 Pfennig note , the 50 Pfennig note shows compositors at frame and also a Linotype machine

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Issued in 1962 by B.T. Tea, a series 'Occupations', number 2 was bookbinding.
Apologies for the scan of back of card

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Issued by Sketchley Cleaners in 1960 (and also with the same image and back of card information by Amalgamated Tobacco in 1961), a series of 25 cards 'Communications'
Number 12 was printing

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Amalgamated Tobacco

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Number 16 was newspapers    Sketchley Cleaners     

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Amalgamated Tobacco    I have no image of the back of this card, but the information is the same as the Sketchley version

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Will's Cigarettes   'Household Hints' from 1927     Cards 4 ,5 & 6 showed bookbinding

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I love this stylised picture of a printing plant:

https://twitter.com/HowardIronWorks/status/1646254949263654913

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Aurelia Cigarettes cards given with Sultan No. 6 cigarettes in the early to mid thirties.
A series 'Deutsche Zunftwappen - Die Adelszeichen deutscher Arbeit' (German guild coats of arms - The nobility signs of German work)

I have found four

Bookprinter in Mainz



Typefounder in Leipzig



Bookprinter in Leipzig



Bookbinder in Leipzig

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CWS Cigarettes - In a series titled 'Boy Scout Badges' from 1939. Number 32 was bookbinder

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The poster "This is a Printing Office" was written and designed by Beatrice Warde in the 1930s with the excuse of showing Perpetua by Eric Gill. Since then this inspiring text has graced many printers around the world.



In Gaelic