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The Jaeger Airliner Cards May 2019
While the USA had few vintage airline postcard publishers, Europe had a diverse group of publishers producing excellent cards from the 1950s to the present. Among the very early publishers was Editions Jaeger of Geneva Switzerland. Long a publisher of scenery and monument cards, Jaeger began issuing cards of airliners and the Geneva airport around 1950. The earliest cards appear to be airliners superimposed on scenes of Lake Geneva. But soon thereafter Jaeger began to issue excellent  in flight images, apparently sourced from the airlines or the manufacturers. This continued until the early 1960s.
Jaeger backs were not very informative, but some slight evolution occurred during the 10 years of publication. Several backs are illustrated which are not necessarily in chronological order.
A reborn Jaeger appeared around 1965, but apparently did not focus on airliners.

Once again Kuo Ching Fu has shared many of these cards from his personal collection (indicated by the KCF suffix) They are very much appreciated.
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#85? TWA DC-4 #9KCF

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#87? Swedish Airlines (SILA) DC-4

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#7024 TWA Constellation #37

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#7029 Swissair Convair 240 #9 KCF

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#7030 Misrair Viking
This card also used as a Misrair Issue with complete Misrair back

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#7035 Air France Languedoc #5 KCF

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#7046 Air India Constellation #7 KCF

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#7066 TWA DC-4 #7w

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#7071 Swissair Convair 240 #10 KCF

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#7283 British European Viking #7 KCF

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#7284 TWA Constellation #40KCF

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#7285 TWA DC-4 #8KCF

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#7413 British European Viking #9 KCF

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# 7671 S A S Convair 440 #2

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#7671 Lufthansa 707-420 #21KCF

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#7672 Sabena Convair 440 #8 KCF

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#7673 Lufthansa 707-420 #3A KCF

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#7675 British Overseas Comet 1s

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#7676 S A S DC-6B #1

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#7677 K L M Convair 240 #16 KCF

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#7677 K L M DC-8-30 #16KCF

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#7678 Swissair DC-6B #8KCF

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#7678 Swissair Caravelle 3 #9KCF

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#7679 Air India Constellation #4

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#7680 Swissair Convair 240 #6 KCF

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#7681 Swissair Convair 240 #5 KCF

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#7681 Air France 707-320 #18KCF

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#7681 British Overseas 707-420 #17 KCF

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#7681 Trans Canada DC-8-40 #11 KCF

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#7682 British European Ambassador #7

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#7682 Air France 707-320 #15 KCF

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#7683 K L M Constellation #23 KCF

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#7683 Air France 707-320 #16 KCF

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#7684 British European Viscount 700 #6

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#7684 TWA L-1649 Constellation #4GS
Image by courtesy of Greg Smith

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#7685 TWA L-1049G Constellation #5

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#7686 Air India Constellation #6

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#7686 British Overseas Constellation #12KCF

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#7687 Pan Am DC-7C #11 KCF

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#7688 Air France Constellation #19 KCF

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#7688 Air France Constellation #15

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#7688 Air France Caravelle 1 #9 KCF

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#7689 Lufthansa L-1049 G #22KCF

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#7690 Pakistan International L-1049 Constellation #2

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#7691 Swissair DC-7C #4 KCF

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#7692 S A S DC-6 #18 KCF

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#7693 TWA Constellation #23 KCF

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# 7694 Swissair DC-8 #1 KCF
Obviously a pre delivery card of Swissair's much anticipated first jet airliner

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#7695 Swissair DC-4 #3

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#7696 S A S Caravelle 3 #14 KCF

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#7697 Air France Caravelle 3 #25

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#7698 Douglas DC-6 KCF
The first DC-6 for Scandinavian, not yet in Scandinavian Colors.

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#7698 S A S DC-7C #6KCF

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#7699 K L M DC-7C #12KCF

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#7700 Sabena DC-6 #21 KCF

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#8050 Air France Languedoc #6 KCF

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#3014 Air India 707-420 #8 KCF

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#3017 Middle East Comet 4C #4 KCF

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#3022 United Arab Comet 4 #5

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#3035 British Overseas VC-10-1100 #9

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#???? K L M DC-4 #16 KCF

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# ???? Trans Canada DC-8-40 #10W

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B Douglas DC-6 KCF
Plain Back with numbers on face of card

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B S A S Caravelle 3 #14 KCF
Most common back with Title on face

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B TWA Constellation #23 KCF
A third back with number plus a 2nd identifier on bottom right.
(Possibly Year of publication?)


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B TWA Constellation #37 KCF
Number is located on face but with 2nd descriptor on lower right

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B British Overseas Comet 1s
Number on back but logo is missing. Editions Jaeger written on back

 
   
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