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by kevinramsdale
Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:43 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Best Storage method please
Replies: 4
Views: 8580

Re: Best Storage method please

Excellent. Thanks for the reply. More questions...... how many cards (in their pockets) fit in a 286mm box ? Also, I'm struggling to find a picture of the boxes on offer. Are they fairly robust ? Do they come ready made (so to speak) ? Thanks again. You should be able to get your 650 cards into two...
by kevinramsdale
Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:26 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Best Storage method please
Replies: 4
Views: 8580

Re: Best Storage method please

Hi everyone, Can anyone help with a little advice on storage please? I'm a novice with postcards and have never collected, however, I've just been given an amazing old family collection. I've counted approx 650 cards - in my simple terms, many are absolutely superb dating from around 1900. Lots of ...
by kevinramsdale
Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:50 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Postcard took 27 years to be delivered
Replies: 4
Views: 10036

Re: Postcard took 27 years to be delivered

On at least one occasion a packet of old cards being sent to me has come open in transit, and arrived with some of the contents missing - it's quite possible that some of the contents ended up being delivered to the original addressee.
by kevinramsdale
Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:53 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: To eBay or not to eBay?
Replies: 53
Views: 213484

Re: To eBay or not to eBay?

How to get ebay reputations at the beginning? Since, I haven't sell anything I have no feedback. I want to enter a market. I probably will have only one or two competitor so since it's a monopoly I want to break it. However customers pay attention to sellers feedback and I don't have. So should I t...
by kevinramsdale
Sat Dec 25, 2010 10:17 am
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: It's nearly Time
Replies: 3
Views: 6652

Re: It's nearly Time

... and a Happy New Year .....
by kevinramsdale
Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:41 am
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Verdier Ltd. London, W. Postcard Printed in England
Replies: 8
Views: 11572

Re: Verdier Ltd. London, W. Postcard Printed in England

Tony Byatt's "Picture Postcards & Their Publishers" gives 1909 as the year the company began to publish postcards, rather than ceased to.

Their full name was Leon Verdier Ltd of 10 Dean St, Soho, London.

Apparently they were still publishing cards after the First World War.
by kevinramsdale
Wed Aug 04, 2010 4:04 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Bamforth Postcards
Replies: 2
Views: 7024

Re: Bamforth Postcards

Hi Chris According page two of this thread: http://www.postcard.co.uk/messages/postcard/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=551&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15 it looks unlikely that a checklist exists for their comic postcards. If it is the Song Cards you are interested in the situation is more promisi...
by kevinramsdale
Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:42 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Can anyone help.
Replies: 1
Views: 3566

Re: Can anyone help.

Hello Andy That is George V in the centre, with the future Edward V111 on the left (when Prince of Wales) and the future George V1 on the right (then I think known as Prince Henry?) Dating I guess from the 1920s era. It doesn't look like a commercially produced postcard (which in this case could be ...
by kevinramsdale
Thu Jul 08, 2010 5:25 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Death of Postcard seller Staplehurst
Replies: 4
Views: 7148

Re: Death of Postcard seller Staplehurst

There is now a thread about this on the eBay discussion boards:

http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?th ... 5&start=40
by kevinramsdale
Thu Jul 08, 2010 3:35 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Death of Postcard seller Staplehurst
Replies: 4
Views: 7148

Re: Death of Postcard seller Staplehurst

To be fair to eBay they have to be absolutely certain that any such information is true, and not the work of a malicious third party.

Having said that though they ought to be more proactive in seeking to confirm such reports, the recent feedback received is pretty conclusive in itself.

Sad news.
by kevinramsdale
Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:54 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: eBay starting prices
Replies: 2
Views: 4926

Re: eBay starting prices

It's actually very dangerous to set a starting price on eBay of much less than what you actually you want for the card - examples such as the one you give (value £12+ actually sold for around £2) are far too common for that. It does need two keen potential buyers to get any competitive bidding going...
by kevinramsdale
Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:20 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Dealers' pencilled marks. Agh!
Replies: 8
Views: 14011

Re: Dealers' pencilled marks. Agh!

I'm surprised no one has thought of this idea, a white label stuck on the plastic then all the details, price codes + all other info can be written on. Then nothing needs to be written on the card at all, the card placed in the plastic with the sticker to the back. Problem solved. :D For security r...
by kevinramsdale
Mon May 03, 2010 11:12 am
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Barr's News
Replies: 1
Views: 3616

Re: Barr's News

eastlondonpostcard wrote:picked up some old copies of this paper the other day dating from November/December 1992 - full of interesting Postcard stuff - published in Lansing, Iowa USA - is the paper still going, I wonder?
Yes, and they have a website at http://www.barrspcn.com/

See you at Bury St Edmunds
by kevinramsdale
Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:20 am
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Lack Of Seating
Replies: 4
Views: 8325

Re: Lack Of Seating

I totally agree that it's great to have chairs available, but some venues don't provide all that many in the first place, and priority has to go to the dealers, who are increasingly decrepit these days, and can't be expected to stand up all day. However there is often a stack of chairs elsewhere in ...
by kevinramsdale
Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:10 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: ebay's free listing days ..........
Replies: 1
Views: 4193

Re: ebay's free listing days ..........

........ seems to bring out all the same ol' suspects at silly prices - yawn! - Unfortunately with no listing fee there is no incentive to set a realistic price, or even to offer saleable material (apart from the time it takes) And these free listing days are so frequent that it takes only a couple...