Antique 1936 German Cigarette Card Album Bilder Deutscher Geschichte Complete For Sale

\"Bilder Deutscher Geschichte\" (Werk 12) — Published by Cigaretten-Bilderdienst Hamburg

Up for sale is a beautiful, fully complete example of pre-WWII German cultural and marketing history: the famous large-format collectible card album \"Bilder Deutscher Geschichte\" (Pictures of German History). Published in 1936 by the prominent Cigaretten-Bilderdienst Hamburg-Bahrenfeld, this historical reference work features hundreds of vibrant, full-color cards that consumers painstakingly collected and pasted into the designated frames.

• Publisher: Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Hamburg-Bahrenfeld
• Series / Volume: Werk 12 (Volume 12)
• Publication Year: 1936
• Language: German text (Fraktur script)
• Completeness: 100% Fully Complete. Every single collectible color plate card is present and neatly pasted into its proper place.
• Historical Eras Covered:
  • I. Gruppe: The Middle Ages (Das deutsche Mittelalter - Charlemagne, Barbarossa, Gutenberg, etc.)
  • II. Gruppe: Reformation and the Thirty Years\' War (Reformation und 30jähriger Krieg - Luther, Wallenstein, Gustav Adolf)
  • III. Gruppe: The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia (Das Werden Brandenburg-Preussens)

Good vintage condition. The original heavy yellow-gold cardstock cover features its distinct dark embossed eagle monument graphic. It shows typical natural shelf wear, edge rubbing, light corner bumping, and minor dust smudging from storage appropriate for its 90-year age. The spine cloth is strong and intact. Inside, the pages are remarkably crisp, tight, and uniform. The individual color picture cards are exceptionally vibrant, glossy, and beautifully preserved with no modern ink marks or tears. A premier display piece for historians of vintage marketing media and European illustration. Please inspect the gallery photos for close-up cosmetic grading.

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