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- Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:52 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Fast Turnaround
- Replies: 8
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Re: Fast Turnaround
Here's a classic example of a fast turnaround by a postcard publisher who's keen to capture local events and get his products out quickly... Such a fast turnaround was not uncommon 100 years ago. I have a few examples of soldiers having their photographs taken as they detrained on Salisbury Plain (...
- Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:47 am
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: BIPEX / Picture Postcard Show 2007 Dealers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6935
I usually spend a few minutes on arrival noting the dealers I haven't seen already this year and concentrating on them. I live in the Home Counties, so can see the others at several fairs each year. Bipex has two particular plusses for me: it's spacious (though I don't know if having one day less th...
- Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:37 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Why are PCs far more expensive than photographs?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11245
I much prefer an original postcard to anything else. I've a few photographic copies of elusive cards in my collection that have been given to me, but I don't like them. The big exception relates to images of the former wireless station on the Wiltshire Downs above Bishops Cannings, close to Devizes....
- Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:05 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Why are PCs far more expensive than photographs?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11245
Why are PCs far more expensive than photographs?
I've just won eight early aviation press photographs that have been album mounted at a cost of just over £3 each; there was only one other bidder. A couple of months ago, I was involved in some very fierce bidding for contemporary postcards of the same event, with individual cards (some used, others...
- Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:36 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Another old postcard deliver 90 years late!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8282
Another old postcard deliver 90 years late!
Yesterday's Daily Telegraph had a short item about a postcard that should have been delivered in August 1908 arriving on a "doorstep" in Winthorpe, near Skegness. There was a similar case in February when "a card from the [Great War] trenches was "delivered" in Wiltshire. Su...
- Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:38 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Cash In The Attic 7 August 2007
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14056
- Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:17 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Cash In The Attic 7 August 2007
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14056
Re: Cash In The Attic 7 August 2007
:cry: Just finished watching this. One lot was for a collection of saucy/comic postcards. The "Expert" put an estimate of £40.00 on this. The collection looked in superb condition too. The winning bid was £5.00!!!!! Oh boy, was I mad that I could not have been there!! "John Boy"...
- Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:02 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Rare postcards on eBay
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9632
Re: Rare postcards on eBay
One of the first "How to sell on eBay" articles I read advocated hyping up the article on offer - a bit like an estate agent advertising a house. As a seller I stick to plain facts, as a buyer I'm put off by hype. Minutes before reading this thread, I came across this on Australian eBay: &...
- Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:09 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: BIPEX 2007
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11519
- Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:07 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Ebay Auction Site
- Replies: 26
- Views: 64411
- Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:58 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Ebay Auction Site
- Replies: 26
- Views: 64411
- Thu May 31, 2007 5:42 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Ebay Auction Site
- Replies: 26
- Views: 64411
- Wed May 30, 2007 8:36 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Ebay Auction Site
- Replies: 26
- Views: 64411
Re: Ebay Auction Site
One postcard, sold by a quite well-known dealer, never arrived ......... Sadly, being a well known dealer counts for nothing with the Royal Mail - or do you suspect it was never sent? The implication I sought to make was that his being a well-known dealer made me think it more likely that he had se...
- Wed May 30, 2007 2:21 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Ebay Auction Site
- Replies: 26
- Views: 64411
- Tue May 29, 2007 9:51 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: This Site
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7483
Re: This Site
:D Hello everyone, "John Boy" here, a new addition to the fold so to speak! Just an introduction really. Initially a stamp collector but awoke one day to see the light! Visited Sunny Skeggy a few years ago, picked up a few comic postcards on the prom. The rest, as they say, is history. I ...