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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Phaik Hooi, post: 297444, member: 5831&quot;]agree! definitely not professionally/company produced. </p><p><br /></p><p>but may not be someone taking photos of their comic collection either because the card paper is quite good. i think they could have been cinema promotional/advertorial cards?</p><p><font size="4">i have a theory: i am from Penang and so these cards are not easily available, unlike cigarette cards that came in the cigarette pack. during the late 1930s, cinemas were introduced. they played both british and american movies. to advertise, local printers had to reproduce the film flyers, usually with the cinema details and showing times and some have 2 or even 4 language translations. i think the cinemas printed these and handed them out to their customers?? of course, i have no way of confirming this, just extrapolating from the cinema/movie flyers <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><br /></p><p>nothing at the back. difference in quality of paper used.</p><p>deckle edge photos. card.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]97004[/ATTACH] </p><p>straight edge photos. card.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]97005[/ATTACH] </p><p>thinner paper. movie scenes?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]97006[/ATTACH] </p><p>card.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]97007[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]97008[/ATTACH] </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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