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Collecting Postcards



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Sending Postcards was a means of communications when telephone wasn't invented yet. Postcards were convenient because it cost half the price of paper and envelope. Very convenient indeed, especially for travelers.

Postcards made postage cheaper and mail lighter.

Postcards make collectible items because people love correspondence and are intensely interested in visual arts. We buy postcards as personal records of our travels.

But the message in the back of the postcard and recalling the circumstances in which they were written makes it even more memorable.

Collectors of postcards usually narrow down their focus on a single theme. Like, they collect only, vintage postcards, photo postcards, museum art postcards, color postcards, black and white postcards, linen postcards, white border postcards, multi-views (postcards with more than one pictures in them), postally used or unused postcards, postcards illustrated by a single artist, from the same publishing company, humurous or comic postcards, patriotic postcards, etc.

You can as well choose to collect postcards on a single subject such as writers, events, cities, universities, castles, roller coasters, lighthouses, dinosaurs, aviation, American Indians, cathedrals, advertising, movie stars, nudes, signed artist, African American, fairies, railways, British royalty, shipping, boating lakes, yacht racing, diners/cafes/drive-ins, gas stations, fireworks, bridges, stadiums, Olympics, hot air baloons, volcanoes, folklore creatures like unicorns, Greek/Roam gods etc.

Basically, you buy postcard that catches your eye. Forget value.

The most collectible and highly sought after postcards are Halloween postcards by illustrator Ellen Clapsaddle.

Shop around hotels, airports,post offices,yard sales,antique shops,coin and stamp shops to get a feel for the going rate of your chosen subject, artist, period or areas. In Ebay, if you find postcards you particularly like, bid aggressively. You might not see it again.

These are the variety of factors that can skyrocket the value of a postcard :

1. Vintage postcards from pre 1918 in the category of holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving, St. Patrick's day, Halloween,Fourth of July, Valentine's day and Easter.

2. If the subject is a town no one has heard of.

3. If the subject is a famous sports figure.

4. Postally used postcards. The stamps absolutely certify the age of a given postcard. As it not only dates the postcard, the stamps with postage cancellation marks have their own collection value as well.

5. If the subject is heritage material such as, famous shops no longer exist, or shops that have been passed down from generation to generation.

6. If the postcard contained the depiction of lifestyles and events which are vanishing or no longer exist.

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