Country of Issue: Germany (Hamburg)
Year of Issue: 1932-1933
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set: 140 in set (Series I: 1-80 / Series II: 81-140)
Card Size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Issued as insert with what product: Margarine
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Issuing Company: Eidelstedt (Fauser & Co., Eidelsan) Country of Issue: Germany (Hamburg) Year of Issue: 1932-1933 Color/B&W: B&W Number of Cards in Set: 140 in set (Series I: 1-80 / Series II: 81-140) Card Size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" Issued as insert with what product: Margarine |
Notes: Postcard format. Initially 80 sepia cards (Series I) numbered 1-80 were issued, along with a cord-bound album and 10 pages. 4 cards could be slotted-in on each side of the page, with slots numbered. The first series consists mainly of German stars. Then a second series of 60 green-toned cards (Series II, numbered 81-140) was issued, this time with a mix of German and Hollywood stars. By sending in 30 cards, the additional pages needed for these extra 60 cards could be ordered directly from the company, or 80 cards could be sent in for the entire album. There was also a table of contents, listing all 140 cards, along with the announcement of a "Serie III", which was "in Vorbereitung" ("being prepared"). This third series was never issued, so the album is complete with 140 cards. Because it was relatively difficult to get hold of the extra pages, most albums that turn up tend to only contain the first 80 cards. Complete albums are very rare. A note on the date: Album was announced in 1932, but cards were available well into the following year, with some bearing a purple date-stamp for 1933 on the back.
Although strictly speaking these are postcards, they fit the prerequisites for cards: Cards are numbered, specific albums were issued, and there's a list of contents along with allotted space for cards on album pages. By the way, watch out for number 97 "Baguette Sequins" for what is one of the funniest labelling errors in card history (see scan of card and explanation below).
Thanks to Nick Bolton for help with this checklist.
Serie I
1. Felix Bressart
2. Hans Albers
3. Paul Horbiger
4. Heinrich George
5. Maria Bard
6. Kaete Dorsch (sic. Kathe)
7. Marlene Dietrich
8. Gina Falkenberg
9. Camilla Spira
10. Hans Moser
11. Conrad Veidt
12. Lotte Lorring
13. Albert Bassermann
14. Heinz Ruhmann
15. Hans Albers
16. Alfred Abel
17. Wilhelm Bendow
18. Friedrich Kaysler
19. Carola Neher
20. Katta Sterna / Maria Solveg
21. Emil Jannings
22. Max Adalbert
23. Conrad Veidt
24. Genia Nicolajeva
25. Eugen Klopfer
26. Henny Porten
27. Theodor Loos
28. Johannes Riemann
29. Toni van Eyck
30. Lilian Harvey
31. Hans Albers
32. Jacob Tidtke (sic. Tiedtke)
33. Otto Wallburg
34. Oskar Sima
35. Dorothea Wieck
36. Dolly Haas
37. Elisabeth Bergner
38. Anni Ahlers
39. Grete Mosheim
40. Gitta Alpar
41. Lia Eibenschutz
42. Ida Wust
43. Charlotte Ander
44. Hans Albers
45. Adele Sandrock
46. Irene Ambrus
47. Maria Solveg
48. Rosa Valetti
49. Kurt Gerron
50. Paul Wegener
51. Senta Soneland
52. Helene Thimig
53. Siegfried Arno
54. Willy Forst
55. Julius Falkenstein
56. Ursula Grabley
57. Elisabeth Bergner
58. Ralph Arthur Roberts
59. Werner Krauss
60. Maria Paudler
61. Hans Albers
62. Michael Bohnen
63. Hermann Thimig
64. Mady Christians
65. Hans Brausewetter
66. Kathe Haack
67. Hilde Worner
68. Fritz Kortner
69. Richard Tauber
70. Lil Dagover
71. Marlene Dietrich
72. Ernst Deutsch
73. Lil Dagover
74. Lucie Englisch
75. Gustav Grundgens
76. Dolly Haas
77. Hans Albers
78. K. Edthofer
79. Marlene Dietrich
80. Lilian Harvey
Series II
81. Virginia Bruce
82. Lil Dagover
83. Jeanette MacDonald
84. Lucie Hoflich
85. Carole Lombard
86. Wynne Gibson
87. Trude Lieske
88. Fredric March
89. Frances Dee
90. Roda-Roda
91. Rochelle Hudson
92. Paul Morgan
93. Tom Mix
94. Hansi Niese
95. Loretta Young
96. Lucie Mannheim
97. Baguette Sequins (in the history of cinema, this name has never cropped up. The picture looks suspiciously like Jeanette MacDonald. Probably an error in translation, whereby they wrote down what she was wearing instead of her name.)
98. Leni Riefenstahl
99. Adrienne Dore
100. Bette Davis
101. Brigitte Helm
102. Ferdinand Hart
103. Leni Riefenstahl
104. Dorothy Wilson
105. Kathe von Nagy
106. Irene Dunne
107. Kathe Dorsch / Gustav Frohlich
108. Mary Astor
109. Anna Sten
110. Magda Schneider
111. Mady Christians
112. Anna May Wong
113. Renate Muller
114. Curt Gotz
115. Greta Garbo
116. Carole Lombard
117. Maurice Chevalier
118. Erika Glassner
119. Liane Haid
120. Kay Francis
121. Adolphe Menjou
122. Charles Chaplin
123. Gary Cooper
124. Clive Brook
125. Louis Trenker (sic. Luis)
126. Douglas Fairbanks
127. Conrad Nagel
128. Ann Dvorak (with badminton racquet)
129. Clive Brook
130. Ruth Hall
131. Wilhelm Dieterle
132. Miriam Hopkins
133. Agnes Straub
134. Nancy Carroll
135. Anna May Wong
136. Paul Hartmann
137. Madge Evans
138. Claudette Colbert
139. Barbara Stanwyck
140. Harold Lloyd (scarcely recognisable without glasses!)
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