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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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A. Huber Munich     Advertising stamp        year unknown



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Senefelder appears on the facade of the shopping centre 'ABC BLANCO Y NEGRO', PASEO DE CASTELLANA, MADRID.




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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



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A series showing how a heliogravure image is made using four colours









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Four Senefelder cards from c1890 overprinted for various stores










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Not the best of images.

Back of card mentions Italtype -Italian manufacturer, a subsidiary of Linotype, which produced composing machines and block-line casting machines.




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Tengelmann Kaffee card dating from the mid 1930's
I have no information on the back of the card



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