GREAT BRITAIN VICTORIAN TUCK & SONS' POSTAL CARDS, MINT, nine total from set of ten, all measure 8.9cm X 14cm, series No. 163 The Ten Commandments, embossed chronographs contracted from Saxony with logo, divided back, gilt border, published to "her majesty the queen" highly collectable Raphael Tuck & Sons postcards, older set with original easel logo centered in stamp box, Tuck & Sons' innovated postcards and were one of the primary companies responsible for the "postcard boom" of the late 1800s-1900s because of higher demands contracted German companies has to upgrade to modern flatbeds and presses with bigger formats starting with improved pre-press equipment, The Times exclaimed that the company "opened a new field of labor for artists, lithographers, engravers, printers ink and paste board markers," one of the ways they did was the contests they started granting 1000 pounds to the winner with the most postcards sent to them, the first winner was announced in 1900 who had 20, 364 postcards in their collection, Tuck & Sons never fully recovered the loss of their home office to ash during the night of December 29, 1940 when The Blitz hit London, fine to very fine condition

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