Buying Postcards

When buying postcards, remember—usually the larger the city, the lower the value of the card. The smaller the city, the higher the value of the card because fewer cards were made.    

Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles Vol. 48 No. 4 – December 2021

Christmas Postcards … Meissen Porcelain … Bakelite Jewelry … Old Storage Cupboards …  Mechanical Pictures … Cool Mid-Century Design of Everyday Items … Marks on Dolls … Collector’s Gallery … Prices    

Top 5 County Fair Collectibles 

Bring out the blue-ribbon cows! How about some sheep? And of course, let’s put aside any diets and savor fried elephant ears covered in powdered sugar, skinny French fries drenched in ketchup and served in a giant cup, cotton candy and, of course, deep-fried anything. It’s county fair time, that popular All-American tradition. Vintage county […]

Vintage Postcards Spur Dreams of Warm Weather

Growing up, many Midwesterners spent vacations visiting grandparents who retired to Florida. These memories of the Sunshine State are filled with shuffleboard games, pelicans (how exotic!) and, of course, palm trees. Want to relive those warm memories of old-time vacation spots, pre-massive developments? Vintage postcards are one way. Postcards were first legally permitted in Austria […]

Postcards

The earliest picture postcards mailed in the United States were probably the souvenir cards sold at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The message was written on the picture side of the penny postcard (not the address side) before March 1907, or it cost two cents to mail. By 1908 postcards had become […]

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