St. Pauli Sammelbilder

Issuing Company: St. Pauli Brewery
Country of Issue: Germany
Year of Issue: 1930s
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set: 100
Card Size: 2 3/4" x 4 1/8"
Issued as insert with what product: Beer

Notes: The first 50 cards in this set are in color with a gold border. Cards #51-100 are in black and white. There was an album issued to house all 100 cards.

Three beer brands are mentioned on the back - Astra, Märzen, and Gesundheitsbier. The text after those beer brands translates to "The popular bottled beers of the Bavaria and St. Pauli brewery are commonly known as The three of St. Pauli."

German collector Nick Bolton notes: Cards were issued by "Bilderkontor" Hamburg for the St. Pauli brewery, also located in Hamburg. The series consists of 100 cards. Unusually, cards 1-50 are in colour and with a gold background, cards 51-100 were in black and white. An album was issued with advertising for "Bilderkontor Hamburg 1" on the front, with no mention of the brewery, maybe because other companies could use the album for their own cards, although to date only an unnumbered set of 50 colour cards from the company Torol has been seen.

Date info: According to Jouni Kurrne, the photo of Adolf Wohlbrück dates to 1933, so that is probably around the time this set was issued.

Thanks to Jouni Kuurne, Ralf Wierz, Bruce Parker, and Nick Bolton for helping with this checklist.


Color, Gold Border Cards

1. Lil Dagover
2. Jenny Jugo
3. Trude Marlen
4. Renate Müller
5. Dolly Haas
6. Hertha Thiele
7. Hans Stuwe
8. Paul Richter
9. Willy Fritsch
10. Hans Albers
11. Sylvia Sidney
12. Magda Schneider
13. Gretl Theimer
14. Lien Deyers
15. Maurice Chevalier
16. Camilla Horn
17. Käthe von Nagy
18. Martha Eggerth
19. Clive Brook
20. Gustav Fröhlich
21. Greta Garbo
22. Brigitte Helm
23. Annabella
24. Hermann Thimig
25. François Rozet
26. Dorothea Wieck
27. Joan Crawford
28. Clark Gable
29. Rosita Moreno
30. Johannes Riemann
31. Marlene Dietrich
32. Lilian Harvey
33. Mary Carlisle
34. Ery Bos
35. Elga Brink
36. Liane Haid
37. Heinrich George
38. Otto Gebühr
39. Louis Graveure
40. Charles Farrell
41. Norma Shearer
42. Kay Francis
43. Dorothy Jordan
44. Adrienne Ames
45. Germaine Aussey
46. Janet Gaynor
47. Ursula Grabley
48. Buck Jones
49. Hermann Speelmans
50. John Boles


Black and White Cards

51. Adolf Wohlbrück
52. Viktor de Kowa
53. Marlene Dietrich
54. Brigitte Horney
55. Lilian Harvey
56. Sybille Schmitz
57. Hans Sihnker
58. Sepp Rist
59. Karl Ludwig Dahl
60. Willi Forst
61. Magda Schneider
62. Merle Oberon
63. Martha Eggerth
64. Karin Hardt
65. Mathias Wieman
66. Richard Arlen
67. Charles Boyer
68. Harry Piehl
69. Charlotte Susa
70. Eliza Illiard
71. Susi Lanner
72. Katherine Hepburn
73. Marieluise Claudius
74. Ery Bos
75. Jessie Vihrog
76. Marian Nixon
77. Paul Kemp
78. Albert Lieven
79. Paul Horbiger
80. Albrecht Schoenhals
81. Hanna Waag
82. Jarmila Novotna
83. Anny Ondra
84. Dolores del Rio
85. Willy Eichberger
86. Wolf Albrecht Retty
87. Luis Trenker
88. Gustav Frohlich
89. Lupe Velez
90. Renate Müller
91. Luise Ullrich
92. Leni Riefenstahl
93. Wolfgang Liebeneiner
94. Heinz Ruhmann
95. Charles Laughton
96. Gustaf Grundgens
97. Binnie Barnes
98. Liane Haid
99. Gerda Maurus
100. Anna May Wong


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