Post Card Views of Edinburgh

List of Photographers/Publishers

Post Card Views of

Edinburgh

Yellow background denotes an Edinburgh photographer or publisher.

Green background denotes photographer or publisher from elsewhere.

- V and S Ltd, D = Valentine & Sons, Dundee

See Valentine (below)

- Valentine's Dundee

COPYRIGHT

Valentines of Dundee now own the copyright on postcards published by:

- Valentine & Sons Ltd

- Davidsons (Ideal and Silvertone series)

Valentines of Dundee is a limited company still in existence, albeit non-trading. Valentines of Dundee is now owned by Hallmark.

Valentines produced many thousand different postcard views between 1896 and the 1960s, including a large number of views of Edinburgh - many of Princes Street, Edinburgh Castle and Portobello; fewer of the Old Town or of other districts.

They issued their last colour postcard in 1970 [Picture Postcard Monthly, Oct 1994, p.48]

Some of the postcards were in series, others were produced in different styles but not in named series. In some cases the same image was re-used through several series of cards in different decades.

In the table below, I have estimated the dates when various cards are likely to have been published:

Valentine's Postcards Published in Series
Series	Published
Aerial	1940s
Art Colour (without border)	1920s
Art Colour (without border)	1940s-1950s
Art Colour (with tartan border)	1940s
Bromotype	1920s
Bromotone	1920s
Carbo Colour	1930s
Carbotone	1920s
Carbotype	1930s
Colourtone	1910s
Etching	1920s
Mail Novelty	1950s
Moonlight	1900s
Phototype	1940s-1950s
Photo-Brown	1920s-1930s
Picturesque Edinburgh	1900s
Selectype	1910s
Serrated edges	1950s
Sepiatype	1940s-1950s
Silveresque	1930s
Souvenir	1900s
Valchrome	1950s
Valesque	1920s
Valesque	1950s
Velvette Gravure	1940s-1950s
XL	1900s-1910s