The Photochrome Era of Postcards

September 2nd, 2007 by Jeremy

Photochrome postcards finally merged beautiful brilliant colors and glossy photo quality images. Previously, postcards could only produce one or the other, but not both. Real photo postcards permitted actual photographic views, but only in black and white. Others, like linen postcards had the vibrant colors, but were only artistic renderings. For the first time, Photochromes […]

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What Are Vintage Real Photo Postcards?

August 5th, 2007 by James

Vintage Real Photo Postcards or RPPC, for short, are perhaps the most desired cards that passionate postcard collectors hunt and collect. The reason for their appeal is that by their very nature there are at best only limited quantities of any particular event, view or subject since they were not mass produced, unlike other postcards […]

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