| Samuel L. Schmucker submitted at least ninety-five original gouache and watercolor paintings to the Detroit Publishing Company (DPC), circa 1905-06. The company published fifty-two of these paintings as postcards in eight sets, © 1907. Schmucker's postcard sets were sold in envelopes with the name of the set printed on the front of the envelope. These postcards are some of the most collectible American postcards from the Golden Age of Postcards, c1898-1915. There are seven Schmucker paintings published as postcards by the DPC of which the original paintings have not been found. It is possible these paintings survive. The images of the missing painting are illustrated in our book. The Detroit Publishing Company (DPC) published postcards of several well-known American artists, including Charles Dana Gibson, Harrison Fisher, James Montgomery Flagg, Frederick Remington, and others. However, many of the postcards of these artists are printed in black and white, brown, or blue, while some are only lightly tinted. Many look like pencil, or pen and ink drawings. The DPC did not own or control the copyrights to these artists' work. Schmucker's postcards, on the other hand, are printed in bright colors on glazed stock and are some of the most beautiful American postcards ever published. The DPC printed the finest postcard possible because the had acquired Schmucker's paintings and owned the copyrights to these images. We now know that the printing process, known as Phostint, utilized an many as seventeen full-color separations and are some of the finest printed postcards ever produced. |  |
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