I've had a lot of these over the years (but no Betty Boop!) and they come from every country and it looks like they mainly were super popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
I have sold them for a few dollars each mostly. Bruce On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Wim Jansen <w...@bqjansen.demon.nl> wrote: > Hi, being rained away last Sunday on a book market I picked up a 30's > postcard album. Usually I don't go for this sort of thing, but it was > raining heavily and the album was on the stand next to ours. It's a nice > assortment of American and German stars and movies with quite a lot of > Dietrich and Garbo So I thought I could not really go wrong. Most of them > are regular postcards printed by the usual printers from Germany, France, > England or Holland, but a few of them are apparently given away by movie > theaters. I did not know of such a practice. Were postcards used in a > similar way in other countries? > I've attached pics of a nice example for Betty Boop which to my reckoning > is a rae object in itself. Can anyone confirm this? > > http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk227/HazardousOperations/BettyBoop.jpg > > http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk227/HazardousOperations/BettyBoopverso.jpg > > Best, > > Wim > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 26 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site <http://www.emovieposter.com/> our auctions <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html> <http://www.emovieposter.com/unused/signature/20111028Frankensteinemployeegroupphotosignature.jpg> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
