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Welcome to Bobbie Skye’s Variety Shoppe!
Curator of Ephemera
ebay Seller Extraordinaire
Determining the value for vintage post cards is a subjective process.
As a deltiologist, I do my best to put a fair value on items at a bargain price!
I do careful research before listing an item in order to determine an honest price.
I determine the value of vintage post cards by
the age, the rarity, the condition, the publisher, and the interest of the postcard’s subject.
Take a trip down memory lane with the magic of a vintage picture postcard!
The postcard photos and images serve as a historical record of the past.
Evoking memories of time past and of how things used to be.
A truly historical look at our roots from a different time and age.
A vintage postcard is great for your scrap book
or
School projects!
Buy with confidence!
Money back guarantee if item is not as described!
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POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST 1940’s Photochrome Era Postcard Glossy Finish |
CIVIC CENTER Denver, Colorado Denver’s Civic Center with mountains in
the distance. Buildings shown are the City and County
Building and Library. The City and County Building was finished in 1932. |
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Print Year |
1940’s |
Era |
Photochrome Era (1939-ongoing) “Chrome” postcards began to dominate
the scene soon after the Union Oil Company placed them in its western service
stations in 1939. Mike Roberts
pioneered his “WESCO” cards soon after World War II. Three-dimensional postcards also appeared
in this era. By 1960s, the standard
size of cards had grown to 4 x 6 inches. Photochromes are not real photos but
rather, printed cards done by a photochrome process. To distinguish a printed postcard from a
real photo postcard, examine it under a magnifying glass and you will see the
dot pattern that is characteristic of printed cards. |
Printer |
Made Direct from
Kodachrome and Ansco Color by Dexter Press Inc. (1920-1977) "The Post Card King" Thomas A. Dexter (1899-1993)
was a newspaper publisher, postcard entrepreneur, and horse racer. He opened
his first printshop in Park Ridge, New Jersey in 1920. He moved to Pearl
River, New York eight years later, and by the 1930’s he was producing
postcards, mostly linens but also black & white and hand colored cards
covering a wide variety of subjects. Around
1952 he turned exclusively to photochromes after they moved to West Nyack,
when their old shop grew too small. Most of the photochromes printed by Dexter Press bore the words Genuine Natural Color. Their early chromes were
issued under the name Dextone and tended to be flat and somewhat dull in
appearance. As years went by their optical blending techniques improved
producing richer and more varied colors. They sold the company to
Consolidated Foods in 1972, with Thomas’ son Robert Reardon staying on as
manager. By 1977 slowing business forced them to merge with MWM Color Press,
and by 1984 they closed the New York plant and moved to Aurora, Missouri as a
subsidiary of MWM Color Press. In 1980, the two companies
combined forces to create MWM Dexter. Since that time, over $30 million in
equipment and technology have been invested to provide customers with the
best concept-to-completion, full-color printing & fulfillment services. |
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Sanborn Souvenir (1920-1966) In the early 1920s, Harold F. Sanborn (1899-1974), a
native of Colorado, started the Sanborn Souvenir Company in Denver, Colorado.
He was a commercial photographer who would take photos and make postcards to
sell at local shops. He primarily worked in Colorado and Wyoming. Sanborn first produced real photo postcards during the
1920’s and 1930’s carrying the Sanborn name. He and his son Bill later went
on to produce tinted halftone postcards in the 1940’s and eventually started
printing photochromes in the early 1950’s. Derick Wangaard purchased the company in the 1990s and
gained access to over 40,000 of their photographs. |
Size |
Standard Size: 5
½ X 3 ½ / 14cm X 8.9cm |
Printing
Technique |
Photochrome
1939- 4-Color Process printing Full-color
images are created on the printing press by applying separate layers of the
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black inks (CYMK). Photochrome cards were both more
realistic looking and less expensive. Thousands of colors can be reproduced
by overlapping these CMYK colors in various concentrations. Applied as tiny
dots on the paper the four CMYK colors combine to create the visual
effect we know as full color printing. |
CONDITION |
Unused /Unposted Rounded corners and edges in very good condition. NO pinholes, tears, creases, smears, smudges, stains, or
mold. |
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Bobbie Skye
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