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  • wycombe1

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    Reino Unido

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    Why not just list them as 'blank backs' (or even scan the back so there can be no illusions). If the pictorial side is of interest they will sell to topical collectors.
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    Why not just list them as 'blank backs' (or even scan the back so there can be no illusions). If the pictorial side is of interest they will sell to topical collectors.
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  • wycombe1

    1933 mensajes

    Reino Unido

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    The blank backs probably indicate they were privately produced.

    When I returned to Kuwait after the Liberation I was supplying the companies fighting the oil fires in the north of Kuwait which meant I went right into the zone where the oil wells were blazing. Whilst there I took photographs which i duplicated and used as postcards as it was almost impossible to describe how hell like it was. These I sent to all and sundry by mail. These had no printing on the backs (except possibly the mark of the processor or paper manufacturer - as I have none left I cannot check).

    I have done this many times now during my travels - a few weeks ago I was in Rwanda and I did the same with some photos I took in the Akagera National Park and in Goma in Congo DR which has an active volcano as a backdrop. In a lot of these places postcards are just not available and, if they are, they do not show what you want. So it is an easy matter to print off photos and use them as postcards.
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    The blank backs probably indicate they were privately produced.

    When I returned to Kuwait after the Liberation I was supplying the companies fighting the oil fires in the north of Kuwait which meant I went right into the zone where the oil wells were blazing. Whilst there I took photographs which i duplicated and used as postcards as it was almost impossible to describe how hell like it was. These I sent to all and sundry by mail. These had no printing on the backs (except possibly the mark of the processor or paper manufacturer - as I have none left I cannot check).

    I have done this many times now during my travels - a few weeks ago I was in Rwanda and I did the same with some photos I took in the Akagera National Park and in Goma in Congo DR which has an active volcano as a backdrop. In a lot of these places postcards are just not available and, if they are, they do not show what you want. So it is an easy matter to print off photos and use them as postcards.
    Los datos ya no están disponibles porque la cuenta de este usuario ha sido eliminada (Reglamento RGPD)
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    Portugal

    The blank backs probably indicate they were privately produced.

    When I returned to Kuwait after the Liberation I was supplying the companies fighting the oil fires in the north of Kuwait which meant I went right into the zone where the oil wells were blazing. Whilst there I took photographs which i duplicated and used as postcards as it was almost impossible to describe how hell like it was. These I sent to all and sundry by mail. These had no printing on the backs (except possibly the mark of the processor or paper manufacturer - as I have none left I cannot check).

    I have done this many times now during my travels - a few weeks ago I was in Rwanda and I did the same with some photos I took in the Akagera National Park and in Goma in Congo DR which has an active volcano as a backdrop. In a lot of these places postcards are just not available and, if they are, they do not show what you want. So it is an easy matter to print off photos and use them as postcards.
    Los datos ya no están disponibles porque la cuenta de este usuario ha sido eliminada (Reglamento RGPD)
  • xtf70

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    Reino Unido

    Los datos ya no están disponibles porque la cuenta de este usuario ha sido eliminada (Reglamento RGPD)
    In the 'early days' of enthusiastic (and generally well-heeled) amateurs it was possible to buy photographic paper with 'Post Card' pre-printed on the back, as well as completely blank; this photographic paper was the bromide type on card stock, not the resin-coated stuff you get today

    Many amateur photographers produced these cards, often for their own use, and they can be readily identified by the absence of any publisher name, etc. Also it is quite common to find the subject matter hand-written on the picture itself, either by writing directly onto the negative or by writing on a small piece of clear negative and overlaying onto the picture - look closely and you may see tell-tale outlines around the text

    I studied photography many years ago at college and found that taking pictures is only the first step - real photography begins in the darkroom!

    For your information, I always list these as 'real photo postcard with plain back' or 'real photo with postcard back' to differentiate from commercially-published postcards

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