19.00 USD
Another wonderful boudoir/lingerie image! Lots of ribbon and ruffles, and a very cute German model :) This card was published by NPG (the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft) of Berlin, the company begun by Arthur Schwarz of Berlin at the turn of the century that became the leading photo image postcard publisher in the world for a good many years. If you can zoom in on this image, you will be able to appreciate the quality of this print and see why they were so successful!
For this card, NPG made use of their patented Oranotypie process.
We wish there was more information readily available on this and other processes for photo printing at that time. There must have been hundreds, if not thousands, being used and adapted, but very little history remains accessible. The one thing we do know, is that the Oranotypie process produced a very superior quality print.
We recently read somewhere or other on a modern blog or forum that this process was very similar to the Photochromie process. We feel pretty uncertain about that.
The Photochromie, Photochrom, or Photochrome, process was an early, and very successful attempt at affordable high quality color tinted photographs. Really almost a mixed media effect, it overlaid a photo print from a black and white film negative onto a series of color lithograph stone plates creating what Wikipedia described as a kind of photographic chromolithograph. Our fourth image listing (not for sale!) offers an example of a Photochromie image. Quite wonderful, we think, but any tinted Oranotypes we've seen, were, as far as we knew, hand-colored, not lithograph printed, and of course our lingerie card is not color tinted at all.
In any case, a very nice unposted card that will go in our risque section, since in its day it would have been considered so, despite the fact that in our present day, it's difficult to find anything really risque in this lovely fashion history image :)
Lovely unposted condition. Please examine our high res scans for detail.
The item you are considering for purchase is, unless otherwise noted, a vintage postcard of approximately 5 and 1/2, by 3 and 1/2 inches. Postage is for fully-insured, first class shipping in a secure photo mailer (to avoid any damage to your purchase in the mails), and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will not charge for postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more. We do not charge for insurance or shipping materials, and as of the date of this listing are still charging below our overall cost on shipping.
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