H. Voigt postcards, follow-up

There is no more potent catalyst—if you are searching for a philatelic fact or interesting item—than to write an article about the topic.

As soon as the article is done and despatched, that is when things will pop into view and allow themselves to be found.

The LPS Journal has just included an article of mine about postcards of Mr. H. Voigt in Monrovia.(1). Naturally, therefore, I have just encountered two more such postcards, and each offers points of interest:

• The first I spotted in the auction catalogue of the "Barbara Fosdyke-Ray Collection of Liberia".(2) Only the address side of the card is shown or described, and so I have no idea what the image might have been on that card. The card was mailed to Hamburg in 1910. The interesting point for me is that the statement of attribution/copyright on that address side, positioned unusually at the right-hand edge of the card, in a new one, saying "H. Voigt. Monrovia - Hamburg. (Copyright.)". This is the first example that I have seen in which Mr H. Voigt is positioned as being both Monrovia- and Hamburg-based.
  
• The second card was in a selection of cards for sale shown in the Journal of the Liberian Philatelic Society in 2008.(3) This card was mailed possibly in 1913, and the written message on the address side unfortunately obscures some of the attribution statement, but this also appears to be a new one—possibly a numberless version of my type "E" in the article. The real interest here, however, is the image on the card, captioned: "Kabellegung der Deutsch-Südamerikanischen Telegraphengesellschaft, A.-G., in Monrovia am 19. März 1910". (Cable-laying for the German-South American Telegraph Company in Monrovia, on March 19th 1910). I have managed previously to log dates on which Voigt postcards have been written and/or mailed: this is the first instance on which I find the date on which the photograph itself was taken.
  

I hope to find more, and I hope that members will tell me of cards that I have not yet seen.

But, to go back to the main learning point … if one wishes to make progress in researches or assembly of a collection, write an article for the LPS Journal, and progress will then come to you.

(1) Martin Giles, “Mister H. Voigt, Photograph in Monrovia”, LPS Journal, The Journal of the Liberian Philatelic Society, 9(3), (July-September 2026), 1 and 4-15
(2) “The Barbara Fosdyke Ray Collection of Liberia”, The Westpex Sale, Public Auction No. 47, Lot 2794, Schuyler J. Rumsey Philatelic Auctions, Inc., (April 26th – 29th 2012), 361, at https://www.rumseyauctions.com/pdfs/Sale47.pdf, accessed July 9th 2026
(3) Harald Liedtke, [Liberian postcards for sale], Journal of the Liberian Philatelic Society, 31(2), (April – June 2008), 17-30