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November 26, 2023 17:07
At publishers I see Nels 8 times and Thill 14 times.






Actually, it concerns one and the same publisher and one branch:
  • Nels-Thill (Brussels)
  • Nels Lorraine (Metz)

I don't know what to choose if I want to fill in the publisher for such a card.
For a proper background page, I wouldn't know if there is already one behind it, and if not with which of those 22 publishers I can actually place a background page. I think seeing the same places 22 times is too crazy to go wild.

Can't they be combined (reduced to those 2)?

The Belgian postcard company Nels was founded in 1898 by two photographers: Edward (Édouard) Nells and Ernest Thill.
A postcard publisher that would cover Belgium and its colonies.
The first postcards from Nels appeared at the end of the summer of 1898
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Four years after its foundation in Brussels, 1902, his brother Paul opened a Nels branch in Metz, which distributed more than 3,000 different cards in Alsace-Lorraine (German), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and some German border municipalities. The numbering (reference) follows
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Thill was the brother-in-law of Édouard Nels. Due to Nels' health problems in the period between 1907 and 1913, he was put in charge of the company. After 1913, Ernest Thill took over the company as owner of Editions Nels.
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The first 3 inventories of Nel's postcards were published at the end of 2014. These inventories benefit from an annual update that allows the lists to be supplemented with our discoveries and those of the Mannekenpis Club of Brussels and all-too-rare passionate and generous collectors.
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November 26, 2023 18:01
Raoul62
Since this concerns the General name of the publisher, these can be merged.
Something else is the "Publisher as on card" field.
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November 26, 2023 18:13
Raoul62
You can place your background page with the General publisher name Nels-Thill .
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November 26, 2023 18:51
Fine, it's all right.
If you can now place the 'attention grabber' as an administrator at that publisher:
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November 26, 2023 18:57
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