Many of the photographic glamour postcards of the later Edwardian period featuring feather-covered hats were listed as being ‘Printed in Prussia’ (or Germany and sometimes Saxony). But sadly, the storm clouds of conflict were inexorably gathering and, with ill feeling in both Britain and Germany on the rise, it is not uncommon to see on the back of some cards that the country of origin has been obliterated or scratched out – probably by the retailer on account of the growing ill-feeling towards the German people leading up to and including the war period. From a retailing and sales point of view, the public were surely not going to patronise establishments offering postcards printed in the enemy’s homeland however pretty the young lady on the front! Nevertheless, wartime or not, the quality of printing coming out of this region was invariably and by tradition, extremely good.
