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Société Anonyme Belge de Phototypie
Identity
Category
Firm
Alternative name or descriptor
- Société Belge de Phototypie; La Phototypie Belge<13-14>
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Connected
Details
Life dates
Activity
1906 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Etterbeek, Rue de Ma Campagne, 30-34
Predecessor: Jumpertz Frères [Joseph & Pierre]
Collotype. Director: Pierre Jumpertz; general manager: Joseph Jumpertz. On letterhead: "Printing, lithography and collotype. Picture postcards a speciality." Cards in monochrome, duotone and colour (1911). The qualification "Anonyme" is often omitted from the printed credit on postcards. From 1913 onwards, the firm traded as "La Phototypie Belge". "The largest manufacturer of picture postcards in the country" [Mertens, 1913]. The firm may have been refounded after World War I since a letterhead dated 1920 at this address reads "La Phototypie Belge Soc. Anon. Nouvelle" and states "print works: lithography; photogravure". Soon afterwards, the firm moved to Brussels - Etterbeek, Avenue Edouard de Thibault, 2 and continued to trade as “Phobel” until 1970. The disused printing works were then renovated to become the seat of the RHoK art academy. An archive of around 2500 glass plate and roll film negatives was salvaged from the disused premises.
Predecessor: Jumpertz Frères [Joseph & Pierre]
Collotype. Director: Pierre Jumpertz; general manager: Joseph Jumpertz. On letterhead: "Printing, lithography and collotype. Picture postcards a speciality." Cards in monochrome, duotone and colour (1911). The qualification "Anonyme" is often omitted from the printed credit on postcards. From 1913 onwards, the firm traded as "La Phototypie Belge". "The largest manufacturer of picture postcards in the country" [Mertens, 1913]. The firm may have been refounded after World War I since a letterhead dated 1920 at this address reads "La Phototypie Belge Soc. Anon. Nouvelle" and states "print works: lithography; photogravure". Soon afterwards, the firm moved to Brussels - Etterbeek, Avenue Edouard de Thibault, 2 and continued to trade as “Phobel” until 1970. The disused printing works were then renovated to become the seat of the RHoK art academy. An archive of around 2500 glass plate and roll film negatives was salvaged from the disused premises.
Locations
1906 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Etterbeek, Rue de Ma Campagne, 30-34
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Context
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Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#3921
Status
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 5.4.2018, 9.4.2018 & 7.2.2022; SFJ revised 24.1.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 7.11.2020 & 3.6.2022; SFJ revised 8.4.2024 based on information supplied by Marie-Christine Claes