800 SERIES
By Hans Schnepper and Mark Goffee


The 800 series were regular sized postcards of strictly American stars with the actors' names printed in a script font on front.  The series numbering picked up almost from where the Ross Luxus postcard series had left off with #803.  Lists commonly start the 800 Series with #805, as does this ad in a January 1937 issue of Die Filmwoche (see below.)  For some time it was rumoured that there also was a #804 (Marlene Dietrich), but as yet no proof of its existence has been found.

The 800 Series did not have much in common with the previous Ross Luxus postcards, which were much larger, and included an international group of actors.



The 800 Series was advertised as Hochglanz, schwarz (glossy black and white.)  The series was destined to be short-lived -- less than fifty cards.  Postcard 846 (Terry Ray) was the last one published.

This is the chronolgy of the 800-series:

805 - 834 - Winter 1936
835 - 846 - Autumn 1937









805
  Marlene Dietrich

806
  Clark Gable

807
  Jean Harlow

808
  Norma Shearer

809
  Charles Boyer

810
  Claudette Colbert

811
  Herbert Marshall

812
  Lilian Harvey

813
  Sylvia Sidney

814
  Franchot Tone

815
  Alice Faye

816
  Gary Cooper

817
  Mae West

818
  Fred MacMurray

819
  Jeanette Mac Donald

820
  John Boles

821
  Simone Simon

822
  Bing Crosby

823
  Joan Bennett

824
  Gail Patrick

825
  Kent Taylor

826
  Margaret Sullavan

827
  William Powell

828
  Carole Lombard

829
  Frances Drake

830
  Shirley Temple

831
  Janet Gaynor

832
  Maurice Chevalier

833
  Madeleine Carroll (2 views)

833
  Madeleine Carroll (2 views)

834
  Henry Garat

835
  Dorothy Lamour

836
  Joan Crawford

837
  Ginger Rogers

838
  Jeanette Mac Donald

839
  Ruth Hilliard

840
  Eleanore Whitney

841
  Adrienne Ames

842
  Wanda Perry

843
  Mary Blackwood

844
  Gladys Swarthout

845
  Toby Wing

846
  Terry Ray