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Liebig card from the series 'The stone and its Use' from 1903   This card is titled 'The Lithographic Stone'
The card shown is in italian but this series was also produced in French, Dutch and German





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Liebig card from a series titled 'The History of our Provinces, Aalst, East Flanders' The third card in the set was titled 'The printing press of Thierry Martens circa 1490'
Issued in 1952




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Rheinperle Delikatess Margarine. Number 24 in series 4 - Inventors.    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. Not much information about this series except that most of these stamps appeared from 1900 to 1918. I have posted number 23 in this series in the Gutenberg thread.






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Rheinperle Delikatess Margarine. Number 21 in series 4 - Inventors. Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography



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Scientific Inventions and Discoveries - Cigarette Card by R & J Hill dating from 1929   Number 21 was Mergenthaler.




Also issued in the smaller size in colour




Black and white




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Two cards from Rothmans 'Modern Inventions' series from 1935

Number 6 - Linotype Machine


Number 20 - Newspaper Press


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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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