19.00 USD
A lovely, lovely, card. Beautifully subtle coloration. A fairy queen, perhaps, or woodland sprite. Published by Heliophot of Berlin sometime after mid 1909. We know this because of the triangular logo on the reverse of this card. This was the logo of NBC, the Neue Bromsilber Convention, or the "New Silver Bromide Convention," which was basically a group; or cartel of sorts, formed in mid 1909 by a number of German postcard printers and publishers who produced photographic postcards.
Silver bromide was the primary light-sensitive metallic salt used for the development of the photographic images on their cards, hence the name chosen by the cartel members. The purpose of this organization (only one among many such groups), was to leverage control over costs of materials, etc., and probably also to limit competition in the industry from newcomers, while at the same time maintaining quality standards, and uniform prices on their products. For us, the logo helps establish the age of the card. Though NBC remained a working cartel into the 1930s, the style of this image places it in the 1910s, though without the presence of the NBC logo, we'd have probably placed it circa 1905.
A very nice card in very nice unposted condition. Please examine our high res scans for detail.
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