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Lot 324 - art fine art - Romano House of Stamp sales ltd Auction #37: Worldwide Stamps, Postal History, Worldwide Coins & Worldwide Banknotes

1936, Original Pre-WW2 German Cigarette Card Album "Deutsche Kolonien"(German Colonies) published in 1936 by Cigaretten-Bilderdienst Dresden.

A soft cover album with gilding and impressed detail on the cover. It has 72 pages, with all 270 full colour cigarette card pictures inserted. The pictures are 62.5 mm (2.46 in) wide by 47.5 mm (1.87 in) tall.

Text is in German, and printed using an old style ornate font for the text. Includes a number of countries that ceased being German colonies as a result of World War One (1914-1918).

Countries included are -
German East Africa (Burundi, Rwanda, and the mainland part of present Tanzania) German South west Africa (Namibia) Cameroon Togo Kaiser Wilhelmsland (northern part of Papua New Guinea) Bismarck Archipelago (Island Group off Papua New Guinea) Solomon and Admiralty Islands South Seas Micronesia Carolinas and Marshall Islands Samoa Kiautschou (A region in southern China)
Book is in very good condition, with minor bump damage to some cover corners. Two pages have a small rip near the bottom of the spine (see photographs). Paper used is the economy low grade type, and so pages are all a light brown, rather than white.

350 mm x 248 mm x 10 mm (13.77 in x 9.76 in x 0.39 in)

Book is in very good condition, with the only negative the minor staining

Romano House of Stamp sales ltd Auction #37: Worldwide Stamps, Postal History, Worldwide Coins & Worldwide Banknotes