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Some of Scholastic's Real photo cards are quite attractive and I picked up this one on eBay last March for just £3 including p+p. Postally used in 1949. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o12nHbsmX6U/WakcKBdqWBI/AAAAAAAAFeg/ROv4ML3-RXcswNk572lAjCZXrl3U-sbrACLcBGAs/s1600/Scholastic%2Bpu%2B1949.jpg I'm still ...

I was lucky enough to pick up the Salthill Hotel card a while back and it's a superb card. This one is painted from the hotel looking north towards Dublin. Another gem. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9cXosqKoLSc/WY8OpXWGoFI/AAAAAAAAFbE/Fti6UHR50eUIojkBCFd-2cqbJJOLpZ2ZwCLcBGAs/s1600/Dublin%2BBay%2Bfrom%2...

The prolific postcard artist, Walter Hayward Young "Jotter", is the main reason for my interest in collecting postcards and while he produced quite a number of Irish cards some are exceedingly hard to find. Most of the ones undertaken by Raphael Tuck & Sons eventually turn up if one is...

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I thought that some of you might be interested in this item from my Art blog: https://irishartindex.wordpress.com The night of the 29th December, 1940, saw one of the largest and most destructive German air raids on London during World War.II. More than 24,000 high explosive bombs and 100,000 incend...

I picked up another Scholastic card on eBay this evening - a scarce one by Maurice C Wilks - only the second one I have come across in the last 2/3 years. As luck would have it two other people wanted it too and so it ended up costing me just over £10. One of the artist's better cards! https://1.bp....

I'm still pursuing Scholastic Art cards and I picked up this on eBay during the week. Hand-coloured/tinted and not of a type that I'm familiar with from Scholastic, it turned out to have no publisher indicated. Apparently, hand colouring died out in the 1930's and this would fit the date that the or...

Still plodding along with my Scholastic postcard collection and due to their scarcity I tend to buy almost everything - especially the art cards. Below is my latest acquisition - purchased from a French seller on Delcampe - €5.65 incl.p+p. Not one of the artist's finest works but worth having anyway...

There's also a substantial archive of 3,000+ negatives of Irish Valentine postcards available at the National Library of Ireland here: http://www.nli.ie/en/udlist/photographs ... 372a2e5a15

And Steve, thanks to your tip I bought this one on eBid tonight. Even the chap who had it listed had to check if it was printed or the genuine article! https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ckZni9aGSnY/WHQXZCBb_uI/AAAAAAAAE6E/tL75Hqats3AlJSj7UGHK-CM5OXl_P-ACACLcB/s1600/Beacon%2BCrail%2Bhand%2Bpainted%2Bpc.jpg ...

Have to agree with Moonraker , eBid is useless - handpainted postcards brought up just 3 items today. eBay for all its faults remains the only place to find anything and Delcampe is rubbish since they altered the site. :( Well, I managed to find 21 'hand painted' postcards (as opposed to 'handpaint...

Have to agree with Moonraker, eBid is useless - handpainted postcards brought up just 3 items today. eBay for all its faults remains the only place to find anything and Delcampe is rubbish since they altered the site.

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When it came to embellishing postcards think John Hinde - the Daddy of them all.