This page still in build phase to showcase maritime themed Maduro postcards from my collection
Helps get a feel for what wonderful results the Maduro company achieved transforming original mono views to vibrant colourized printed postcards. They were also known to add more detail to a view, or change its context when it came to reprint another batch. of cards
Below are some examples
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Where better to start than the Pacific Steam Navigation Ship SS Oroya on 21st March 1924 transiting from Talcahuano, Chile to Liverpool, England. The Maduro postcard coloured view treatment giving her a fitting tribute
Aircraft Carriers USS Saratoga and USS Lexington (or Sara + Lex as they were more colloquially know) are seen at Balboa. In fleet Manoeuvres (referred to as 'Fleet problems') staged around the Panama Canal, pre WWII, they often made an appearance. Although their width and height fitted the dimensions of the locks, their overhanging flight decks did cause problems, and Lexington destroyed a few lampposts during one 1928 transit. The period cars in the foreground and the tiny seaplane at the centre of the two giants both benefit from the Maduro colourization effect
Again, the beauty of the collecting hobby is discovering the Maduros playful side. Why they would add imaginary flowerbeds alongside the locks to an earlier view is anybody's guess, but it wasn't the first time they would do this. Again, the beauty of the collecting hobby is discovering the Maduros playful side.
Another example of Maduro interpretation of the same original image on two different postcards for sale along the canal zone. An Armed Merchant Cruiser in 'battleship grey' with stern mounted defensive gun miraculously transforms into a 20000 ton merchant ship by the application of the artists brush. I suspect the military card came first as some of the spectators on the bottom right hand side of the card have have also been removed to create the later merchant ship view.