Valentine & Sons 'Tenggren' Postcards, #4172 - #4177

With copyright permission from the Walt Disney Studio, publishers Valentine and Sons Ltd. (Dandee, Scotland) printed several series of Snow White postcards at about the time of the film's release, circa 1938. The artwork of inspirational sketch artist Gustaf Tenggren was adapted for many of the cards. In this post, we'll be looking at postcard #4172 through #4177.

Each measures a standard size of 3.5" x 5.5" and is printed on regular postcard stock. Along the lower front is a short caption plus a Snow White and Seven Dwarfs logo.

Postcard #4172, "And They Lived Happily Ever After." For comparison is Tenggren's original sketch (via Cynthia Rylant's 2009 Snow White book)...

Front Cover of Cynthia Rylant's Book

Back of postcard...

"No. 4172: "And They Lived Happily Ever After"

Postcard #4173, "Snow White Tells the Dwarfs a Fairy Story"...

No. 4173: "Snow White Tells the Dwarfs a Fairy Story"

Postcard #4174, "With a Song I Come to You, Like a Troubadour"...

Back of postcard, one unused, the other with a postmark dated June 20, 1939...

No. 4174: "With a Song I Come to You..."

Postcard #4175, "The Day That My Dreams Come True"...

Tenggren's sketch...

Back of postcard dated August 23, 1938...

No. 4175: "The Day That My Dreams Come True"

Postcard #4176, "The Animals and Birds Help Snow White to Clean the Dwarfs' Cottage"...

As you can see, this postcard stays fairly true to Tenggren's drawing. The animals especially look quite similar in both...

Back of postcard...

No. 4176: "The Animals and Birds Help..."

Postcard #4177, "Snow White Dances to the Music of the Dwarfs." Note the differences in these two images, particularly Tenggren's original rendering of the dwarfs as compared to those in the card.

No. 4177: "Snow White Dances to the Music of the Dwarfs"

See postcards #4170- #4171 in an earlier entry. We'll also be looking at more by Valentine and Sons in future posts.

Special thanks to Jose of Portugal Cards and Nancy from Victorian Parlour Postcards for generously allowing the use of their card images. At the time of this writing, many of the postcards listed here are currently up for sale by one or both of these dealers. Additional images via BeBrightSalesToo