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Faux RIN TIN TIN?


I have no idea where I got this. I found it recently in the bottom of a chest full of post cards. A very nice note card of a German Shepherd. Rin Tin Tin? I doubt it since there are no references to him on the card. Plus Rin Tin Tin was a star for Warner Brothers, not Paramount. No, I think this Parmount was some other company. I'm not finding anything online that shows their logo, but perhaps I didn't look hard enough. Perhaps someone will see this and recognize it.

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As to what is written on the back? I can't figure it out. Possible names, but just not worth worrying about. Stuck inside the card is a photo of some children lined up on a lawn taken in 1939. I will post it at my vernacular photography site down the line.

2 comments:

  1. Why don't you think it is Rin Tin Tin? It looks like it to me...

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  2. Mainly because there is no marketing reference. German Shepherds were very popular in the '30s so I'm thinking this was either a company trying to make money off of this fact or they simply had a line of cards of different breeds. It's always possible that this belonged to my mother because she did have a German Shepherd as a child. I just don't know. I just think it would have said something if it were being marketed by the studio, which was Warner Brothers. I don't think Warner would have allowed one of his "stars" to be sold with "created by Paramount" on the back. I could be really wrong.

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