Osaka Mercantile Steamship postcards
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Found in the second-hand bookstore today a set of postcards representing great advertising moments from the history of the 大阪商船会社 — or the Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co. Ltd., as one of the postcards has it. I’ll post some over the next few days.
The back of the cards just says “Mitsui O.S.K. Lines” and then “Since 1884”, so I’m guessing these cards were printed in 1984 to mark the centenary of the original company (which was merged with Mitsui Steamship in 1964).
Unfortunately, there’s no additional information on any of the cards other than a very tiny “The Mitsumura Printing Company, Kobe” on one of them (and bravo to them: they’ve done a wonderful job with these cards), so I can’t tell you anything about them.
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Posted to Advertising 2006.07.23 (Sun) • 15:52
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Posted by Kurt 2006.07.23, 21:00
well, fwiw, here’s the company’s homepage: http://www.mitsumura.co.jp/
been around since the Meiji era….
Posted by eganski 2006.07.25, 11:34
I like this picture a lot. I will have to do some research because I have a set of small bowls with similar pictures in my living room. Maybe I should go on Antiques Roadshow and find out if I have a real gem here.
Posted by grazitaly 2006.10.27, 16:56
Veri Beauty ,I like this picture. :)
Posted by Brian 2006.11.10, 07:21
Thanks for the company’s website, Kurt
Posted by avril 2006.12.31, 21:52
I recently purchased Silver Teaspoon—Mitsui Steamship Co. Ltd. Inscribed MS AKASHISAN-MARU Nov.1951.Any info.will be welcome. Postcard beautiful.
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