Propaganda cards

[ramon]

I love to collect Leporellos. They're the concertina-like connected together collections of postcards.

I have over 50 in my collection. I have scanned a typical one for your consideration.

This example covers buildings and sites of the RPT in Nürnberg.

[ramon]

Cards 1 and 2

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An ususual view of the rear of the Tribune

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Cards 5 and 6

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Cards 7and 8

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Cards 9 and 10

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Cards 11 and 12

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Cards 13 and 14

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Cards 15 and 16

[Frank Heukemes]

One of the most interesting threads! Thank you for efforts, Ramon, keep them coming, please!

[ramon]

Thank you Frank for the encouragement. How can I refuse? Here's a nice card for the Brown Fair.

[TerryG]

Cards

Yes great thread.
Congratulations Ramon on such a great collection. I know you have started giving hints on the fake issues but I would be very keen to learn more on how to avoid copies in future.

[ramon]

TerryG,

Thanks again for the compliment. Whle it's been a long time since I handled uniforms and the like, you will find that much of same is at play in detecting fakes. First. I like to handle the card. the weight or calipre of the paper stock, the smell (yes, the smell: paper over 60 plus years has a smell that is a mixture of cigarette smoke and that musty age odor that paper picks up with time), the back of the card with any details such as what firm printed it, the message the original correspondent wrote, the stamps and the cancellations used when the item was posted.

Again, as in other aspects of our hobby with other types of artifacts, knowledge gained from just seeng and handling as much material as possible is most helpful.

The pitfalls are out there, to be sure. Some of the material that I have shown here are now valued (and sold) at several hundred Dollars /Euros apiece. This tremendous climb in worth no doubt attracts the unscrupulous, both the bad dealer and the fraudster. To combat this, internal knowledge is helpful. That is knowledge of the NS period in knowing the events that were commemorated, the philatelic aspects of the subject (cancellations and the stamps affixed), the writing styles of the period.

A library of reference material is useful. Auction catalogues, Philatelic study group publications, books covering the Propaganda card field such as those offered by Bender, Catella, Passmore, et. al. are useful.

Seeing and handling as much material as possible is key. For years, the best items were owned by the older collector who often was the original person who either bought the card when the event was occuring or was the original recipient of the card . With the passing of the years, age takes over and the generations change. The better material began to appear as the older generation began to die out in the 80's and 90's. Families began to dispose of the gems of the field. I was lucky as I had been collecting this stuff from the 60's. I have cards today that are worth hundreds of times what I paid for them, witness the first card I posted in this thread. People back then simply did not put a high value on them. Today they do.

[ramon]

Another early card

[ramon]

A Goebbels sponsored event.