More examples of the
trend to frame a tinted image in black stencilled with gold.
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The effect seems to have been achieved by prolonging the light exposure of the non-image parts of the print. This hyperexposure results in a very high density of silver in the black regions. Denser regions of photographic prints are more prone to the type of deterioration known as silver mirroring, resulting in the blue-silver appearance in the black regions of most of these types of card. When they were first made, the black would have been solid and matte.
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This card was sent for New Year's 1942, probably almost a decade after it was made.
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This card is one of only a few examples in my collection with a white border.
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Unusually, this postcard is not a real photograph; instead it is a photomechanical print. Nonetheless it still appears to have been hand-tinted and hand-stencilled in gold like the others.
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The card makers weren't especially into "less-is-more." (Nor were they really into paying much attention about their model's facial expressions-- it looks like she is thinking, "really?")
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