A new pioneer postcard from Franz Thiemer's Compagnie Comet has been added, one of four cards from Manila, from numbers 126 to 129, issued during the American occupation after the colonial war between Spain and the USA for control of some of Spain's former colonies. Click on the image to see more of this series.

A couple of additional Franz Thiemer cards with scenes from North America have been added, one showing a scene of the Three Sisters in Canmore, Alberta with the caption, "Greetings from America". The card has been postally used May 31, 1899 from Niagara Falls, USA, to Greussen, Germany. Also added is a Compagnie Comet advertising card from 1898 advertising the subscription to the series.

Some additional Franz Thiemer cards have been added, including from Egypt, China, Birma and Denmark.

A couple of new Franz Thiemer Greenland postcards, one postally used in 1899, have been added to the site.

An assortment of additional cards published by Franz Thiemer, dating from 1898 to 1900, from countries including including Turkey, India, Burma (Myanmar), Japan and Sweden, have been added. I still haven’t cracked posting many of the European cards, but will at some point.

Another small posting of Franz Thiemer cards, this time from Southeast Asia.

Another group of Franz Thiemer cards has been added, covering some of their issues in North Africa and the Middle East.

I’ve added a couple of postally unused cards from the Caribbean, and a card from Denmark. There is at least one other card from Cuba.

Several examples of Japanese cards produced by Franz Thiemer have been added.

I’ve filled in a few more blanks in the list and added some additional cards from Australia, the US, and Russia.

Further additions to the Franz Thiemer listings have been added, this time with several cards from the USA.

I’ve added some additional cards into the site, none of which are Canadian this time around, but instead represent some other areas of the world depicted on these cards. I’ve also updated the site with an updated catalog-in-progress of the cards of Franz Thiemer & Co., with about 140 of the ±200 cards identified to date.

Another Canadian pioneer postcard example from Franz Thiemer & Co. of Dresden, Germany has been added, along with more from that worldwide series dating to about 1899.

A couple of months ago I acquired a “Canadian” postcard, postally used in 1899, seen here, that was from a series I hadn’t encountered before. Reaching out to a couple of members of the Toronto Postcard Club as to whether they were familiar with this series, a very knowledgeable response came back from Andrew, who then proceeded to share a wide selection of other cards that he had acquired in this series featuring scenes from other parts of the world. He also had a theory explaining the peculiar attributes that cards in this series shared, and followed up sourcing further info on the publisher from Helmfried Luers, a German expert on European postcard publishers, who provided further insight. Intrigued, I’ve acquired more cards from the publisher, "Franz Thiemer & Co." (trading as "Compagnie Comet”), which I’ll be adding as time passes.