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This ad appeared at the top-quarter of a page in Illustrirte Zeitung for July 1914, a month before the beginning of the war–these creative and colorful stamps (each only about one inch tall) were made to attract readers of the weekly magazine to the fine typewriters produced by Groyen & Richtmann of Cologne and Berlin.
And the details (the first showing a Reuters reporter on a camel somewhere in the Sudan):
