Warm Birthday Greetings

Antique floral greetings post card
Circa 1911
Postmark Jersey City N.J.
John O. Winsch Publishers

Elegant embossed birthday card by Winsch featuring richly detailed paintings of red edged yellow roses, and an inset of a pastoral scene. The background has the appearance of grey stones, with a textured burnished gold diagonal stripe. Classic Winsch!  



About the publisher - John O. Winsch   1910-1915
Stapleton, NY

A very important publisher of artist-signed and holiday cards. They are especially known for their Halloween and Thanksgiving cards. Winsch hired European artists to work directly with his German printer. Samuel L. Schmucker was one of their better known artists who created the Winsch Girl. Fred Kolb, Katherine Eilliot, Charles Levi, and James Frexas also created cards for them. They produced almost 4,000 different designs, many of which were issued in sets. Though most of their cards were manufactured in Germany, some were printed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many of their cards do not carry the firm's name, though they all have a similar graphic design on their backs. Other publishers however took advantage of this and began using a similar back hoping to mislead customers and capitalize on the higher prices that Winsch cards fetched. Winsch was the co-manager of the Art Lithographic Publishing Company in 1915, but his exact tenure is uncertain. He seems to have resumed publishing postcards under his own name sometime after the end of World War One until about 1925.

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