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Rather depends on the types of card in your collection, Jasper. There will probably be a lot of dross - common cards - that exist in many collections, including mine. You probably won't know what they are, and have little idea of the value of individual cards. Set a starting price that is too high a...

What sort of people? if they are soldiers, then it wasn't uncommon in peacetime for a large number of his colleagues to be paraded when a man died. And a military parade, usually with a band, would always attract onlookers; I have cards of the funeral processions of early military aviators c1912 pas...

Not very much, I would think. Start it on eBay at 99p. More expert opinion may follow mine, but I'll be surprised if anyone suggests a starting price of more than £4.99.

Cramped? I've always found it the most spacious of fairs, with perhaps a little spare space that could accommodate a couple of extra stands. I guess it's the nature/purpose of a horticultural hall that it should be hot .

This time last year we had a thread discussing the London Postcard Fair, in which I posted some slightly jaded comments reflecting the fact that the significant proportion of foreign dealers attending was most unlikely to have anything to offer me and that I saw some of the British dealers quite oft...

I assume that you mean the White House that is the US President's official residence? This isn't my area of knowledge, but tens of thousands of postcards of the White House - surely one of the most popular tourist attractions in the States - must exist, and I'm sorry to say that your card is unlikel...

Keep it intact. Most such booklets would have been broken up anyway, so a complete one is much rarer.

I too have occasionally received PCs through eBay and felt the condition was not accurately described. But then I've bought PCs at fairs and on getting home wished I had examined them outside their plastic covers, which can mask some minor damage.

Last week on eBay a card of a Great War army camp was on offer with a starting price of £16 - which someone offered; the printed caption was "THE CAMP, GENERAL VIEW", but the message and postmark indicated that it featured Lark Hill Camp in Wiltshire. At the Reading PC fair today, an unuse...

The quality of cards in my collection is very variable; if I see a tatty card that I know to be rare and the price is reasonable then I'll buy it. I've got a scruffy pair of very early aviation cards from a village photographer that I've never seen anywhere else or reproduced in a book. I've just re...

Given that the heyday of the topo and "special events" cards was the 1900s and 1910s, should such cards of later decades be the same price? Recently an eBay vendor listed a PC of the Packway, the main road through Lark Hill Camp in Wiltshire, with a starting price of £25; it had a 1934 pos...

If you've the time, offer the better iindividual PCs on eBay where, if you're lucky, you may get something like retail for some/most of them. I've no experience of selling in bulk on eBay, but "packs" such as you visualise seem to attract some reasonable bids provided the contents have som...

Copyright is a topic that comes up from time to time on a Great War forum to which I belong: conflicting advice is given, and we always go around in diminishing circles. My understanding is that copyright of photographic postcards extends for 70 years after the death of the publisher (or person who ...

If you're lucky, some patient soul may provide you with the dates of issues for halfpenny and penny stamps issued, say, between 1901 (Edward VII stamps) and the 1920s (George V), but there were several different designs of GVR stamps which would need to be described and/or illustrated. Your best bet...

Thanks, Andrew, but my interest is confined to Wiltshire.


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