My intention is around august 2000,  to enlarge the possibilities of these pages, by making all words and pictures interactive !

I think we determinate them best as cards printed for certain Company's, on their cost, to distribute them gratuitly one by one ... to ensure that those who liked them   would force their surroundings to a higher consumption.   Most cards are aprox 8 X 12 and exist in sets of 6 (or a multiplication of 6 e.g. 12  24  48 etc)

PUZZLE CARDS ======

They exist also in many shapes.   These are 6 postcard-backs,   lithography and NON-divided backs

Queen of Holland (aprox anno 1900)

POSTERS

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Paper or cardboard announcements to be exposed on corners in the streets.  You might categorize them as advertising, and that is OK with me, I agree.   The very big ones did not survive (a few exceptions exist, this does only confirm that most were destroyed).  Ephemera was not suposed to survive !

We all know the tiny type of paper you get as  entree (=admittance) receipt.  Those I like most are from around and before 1900,  lithographs, edited in sets, colorfull artistic advertising.   The entrance part (left border) with the price on it   is most of the times cut of  with a scissor, or invalidated with a whole.    This one is from my favourite collection:  Liebig's Meat extract.   For the ones I am missing in this set I want to pay you  400$ each

It looks like a book but is NOT literature.  The contenance is about all the title says.  This one was a touristic description for visting  the  country where I live.  Printed around 1900,  in Germany by BAEDEKER. Usualy there are some folding maps, technical explications, prices, plans, how-to-do-this or that, Tit & Tat ....

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Lots of names for these stamp-alikes.  They were used to contribute, commerorate, publish some data ... on a manner that was affordable by minorities and ordinary people.   They had to be bought or were given free at manifestations (Congress, Expo, Exhibitions)

There is a  large section,  but don't want to get  involved in any discussions about any of the wars.   So,   if interest ask for the WWII - URL

ADVERTISING POSTCARDS=======

Since I am primerly interested in ephemera, we will limit this section to non-divided-back postcards with publicity on front OR back.  This is a year2000 picture by the artist ROBIDA.  It is an air- taxi which is delivering merchandise bought at a Parisien Ware-House

(none advertising) commerative

(adhesive)LABELS====================

All kind of labels were printed to advertise products.    They were to be glued with a prepared back with adhesive coating (like stamps) or only to be put in water.  The paper is mostly  thin (no card, only one layer).   Here is a collection book with wine labels

click on HOTELLABEL- site

HAND-CARDS-DIE-CUT

Portretting by out-cut  was a profession for some artists, before photography was invented.

It was worlwide a custom to make portraits this way on important meetings .. (spying, diplomatic needs) ... just to recognize people, to recall in memory ... fill in family albums, etc

MENU CARDS

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These cards can have dimensions sometimes 10 times the size of a normal tradecard.    Their form can also be oval to round, palet-shaped, fold-out, etc....

They can be pre-printed with the menu or have a white place to commerorate the ocasion and dish.  The backside  can be blanco, recipes, advertising

more COMMERATIVE CARDS====

Those cards were distributed (sold) to get some of the expenses payed back necessary to make some event a succes.  They publish the date and location of what was going to happen, and gave an animated prediction of that future event

Postcard Antwerp 1894 Exposition

ALBUM CARDS ===============

Insert cards, were edited in sets and have numbers on back, or front.  They were to be inserted (or glued) in their special  designed albums.  (most) Albums had numbered  pages, mostly with pre-printed borders and the number of the image and descriptive  text for the images.   Cover,  back and inside : full advertising for the products. Most of those sets have an alfabetical index too : set A, B, C, D,  ect.. and then 1 to 6 or 12 depending how many cards on a page.

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Insert cards, were edited in large sets and HAVE SOMETIMES numbers on back, or front.  When not numbered they are strongly  related to one subject.  They could  be inserted  in special albums with carved out edges to put the cards in. There are many exeptions because some sets were printed with and without numbers.

July :  next I will do will be Hotel labels interactive clicking will gide you through  10.000 of different ones I have (at this moment, when sold lots of other ephemera will be shown

AUGUST : Tradecards from 1850 to 1870 can be also very attractive to do, 2000 different of the famous porcelain-cards .....