Highlights of a collection of early film star postcards issued by Kraus Manufacturing Co between 1912 and circa 1915. Links to larger gallery showing entire collection.
Kashin Motion Picture Stars – Super 5 X 7 Giant Cards
Further speculation upon the Kashin Publications sets of Motion Picture Stars cards upon discovering several 5×7 cards with matching poses
1930’s Era Vintage Greta Garbo Valentine’s Day Card
A close look at a vintage 1930’s era die cut Valentine’s Day card featuring a cartoon image of Hollywood legend Greta Garbo and a comic poem identifying her as such.
Top 10 British Movie Star Tobacco Card Issues of the 1930’s
This Top 10 list of favorite British Movie Star Tobacco Card sets from the 1930’s includes explanations, descriptions and links to movie card galleries of the chosen sets.
1919 Zeenut Fatty Arbuckle Card Offered in Hake’s Auction #204
When a movie card is actually a baseball card it’ll set you back a few dollars! Hake’s is auctioning a SGC 10 example of the 1919 Zeenut PCL Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle baseball card.
1950’s Ephemera – Hollywood Studios Portrait Brochure
Opening up a 1950’s era sales brochure from the Hollywood Studios company. Hollywood Studios offered high quality photos for sale of your favorite movie stars.
Kashin Motion Picture Stars Variations
A customer recently contacted me about possible variations within the Kashin Publications boxed sets of Motion Picture Stars. Some fascinating discoveries as a variation is confirmed and more questions are raised about discrepancies in the Kashin checklists!
Nicholas Volpe and the 1962 Volpe Collection of Academy Awards Portraits
A brief biography of the portrait artist Nicholas Volpe (1911-1992), who was commissioned to illustrate the Academy Award Winners for Best Actor and Actress each year. Those portraits were collected and mass produced for resale in 1962 and are collectible today.
No More Freebies – Hollywood Stars Forced to Charge Fans for Photos Beginning 1929
After picking up a small collection of studio reply cards to 1930s movie fans requesting photos of their favorite film stars I discovered why the studios started charging a fee. 10 of the reply cards are shown as is the 1929 newspaper article explaining how the charge came to be.
Haven’t Seen These Before: Circa 1915-1917 Movie Cards
Post includes a 50 image gallery of these early movie cards, similar to Kromo Gravure cards of the period, but I can’t prove that they were issued by that Detroit company.