29 December 2017

Colourgraph

We continue our series with British film star postcard series with Colourgraph. This series was issued by Picturegoer in the 1930s. All postcards were hand-coloured.

Nils Asther
Nils Asther. British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C 47.

Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier. British postcard in the Colourgraph series, London, no. C 64.

Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo. British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C 81.

Mabel Poulton
Mabel Poulton. British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C 82.

Winifred Shotter
Winifred Shotter. British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C 146.

Henri Garat
Henri Garat. British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C 153. Photo: Paramount.

Picturegoer


In the 1930s and 1940s, each Picturegoer postcard measured 3-1/2" X 5-1/2", the regular postcard size. These were real photos with glossy finish on front.

On the back of each card is a number. The lettering after some of the numbers denotes the series that the card was from.

The postcards were issued in series, the first one, which ran to over 1400 cards, did not have any kind of prefix letter. The first series was followed by Series A, Series B, and Series C- the Colourgraph series.

Groups of several poses of the same star were sometimes published in this series and were identified with an alphabetical suffix. Subsequent series were given a prefix letter with the majority of images being in sepia tone.

For instance W stands for those postcards issued in the 1940s, D for the 1950s and S for the last series issued up to 1960.

Greta Nissen
Greta Nissen. British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C 184. Photo: Fox.

Herbert Marshall
Herbert Marshall. British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C 233. Photo: M.G.M.

John Stuart
John Stuart. British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C. 237. Photo: Mannell.

Lilli Palmer
Lilli Palmer. British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, no. C 288. Photo: Gaumont British.

Nova Pilbeam
Nova Pilbeam. British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, no. C 332. Photo: Cannons.

Sabu in The Thief of Baghdad (1940)
Sabu. British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C. 338. Photo: Alexander Korda Productions. Publicity still for The Thief of Baghdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, 1940).

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1 comment:

Beth Niquette said...

These are wonderful! I loved the one of Sabu, who starred in Thief of Bagdad. I own that movie and love to watch it every now and again.

I can't believe they hand colored these postcards. That is art itself. They look so realistic!

Thank you for posting for Postcard Friendship Friday. Happy New year!