Luftwaffe periodic prints

[Berra]

Hi guys

I have been offered to buy 18 colour prints with difrent luftwaffe motives.

They messures 230 x 280 mm

What I would like to know is if these has been reproduces an if so is there any easy way to determin if they are correct. I guess uv light would be one easy test.

I have seen prints like these for sale earlier but I dont know how many is supposed to be in a full set.

Any information would be greatly apriciated.

Thanks

Bjorn

[Berra]

Found this information after little searching.

1943 issue Luftwaffe Calendar. 52 Photos. One page per week 52 pages in total. Issued only to senior Luftwaffe Personnel. Photos show Bf 109 (Me109), Bf110, Ar196, He111, Ju88, Do17, Do217, Fw190 and Ju87 Stuka Aircraft in service up to the date of issue from Heinkel, Messerschmitt, Dornier, Junkers, Henschel and Arado. Method of printing was lithograhy using stochastic screens (random dots, no half tone) in order to apply process colors. Color printing at this time was an art that was very much in development and consequently some pictures have retained their photographic quality more than others. It is easy to pick the photos which were shot as "black and white" and colorized at the behest of the Luftwaffe and opposite to these, the ones which were shot in color from the very beginning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8KiSo-VXnA

[Berra]

Well here we are I finaly got them even though there where only 15 prints

Marked Offsetdruck Carl Werner Reichenbach

Lovely pieces

/Bjorn

[Berra]

Last images

[Berra]

Only one of the pictures reacts to UV light so that should be a good start!

The lower part of these pictures looks like they where has been perforated and that's a good thing as originals in their catalogs where perforated

Best regards

Bjorn

[Berra]

Perforation leftovers..
+ Publisher "offsetdruck carl werner reichenbach"