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It may be my imagination, but I think that the number of listings by the "smaller"vendors has decreased.

I've never quite understood why when I check "My eBay" I occasionally see a listing for a card that I've looked at with "Offer expired" against it, which presumably relates to the vendor offering it to me for a short period; I never receive a notification. There's one such where ...

The other day I spotted a card on eBay with the printed caption "Valentine leaving Ends Place Harnham August 4 1911". At least it looked like "Harnham", and the vendor certainly thought so, attributing the locality to Salisbury. It had an unexciting image of a blurred monoplane i...

The Bulford card was published by Peacock, a brand name of the Pictorial Stationery Co Ltd, which started trading in 1902. It appears to have been one of a small series published around then by Peacock of army camps on Salisbury Plain. There are no publishers' details on the Park House card, which h...

I've never found much on other sites within my admittedly narrow collecting interest - and that was on eBid: a desirable card, the scene on which hardly anyone else would be able to identify, and at a low price. Everything else of relevance that was listed was dross.

Which may lead to lots of listings starting at £9.99 or less? Which is more than enough for most of the postcards that I see on eBay. Happily my selling days probably ended on Saturday when I went to the Westbex stamp and postcard fair in Thatcham, wanting to get rid of some left-over postcards from...

Judging from the other forums that I'm visiting, I'm not the only one NOT finding it "Simple"!

Since my original post, I've been visiting various forums where "Simple Delivery" is being discussed. Dismay is almost universal among private sellers, including those of stamps and postcards, and in the eBay forums there's some sarkiness from business sellers aimed at prolific private sel...

I've just had an email from eBay announcing that its "Simple Delivery" will be introduced for all private sellers on February 4. When I glanced through all the electronic bumf, my eyes quickly glazed over and my brain froze. Googling led to this article , and my suspicions that this would ...

Thanks for that, especially concerning the Grosvenor series. I've been looking for such a website.

Thanks for that. I've now discovered that Sepiatone was a brand name of the Photochrom Company.

I would welcome a few words, please, on the Photochrom and Sepiatone brand names of the early 20th century. At least I assume from imprints on the backs of cards that these were names of the companies publishing the cards, rather than merely denoting the printing processes. All I need to know is whe...

Are there many photographic postcards featuring the Boer War of 1899-1902? Not that I want to buy any, but I just need a couple of sentences for an article I'm writing about early postcards. I've just looked at eBay, and there's only one on offer. (A while ago, a dealer was offering a card he though...

I'm writing a short account of postcards and would welcome comments on the very earliest. Vaguely 1896 comes to mind as a date for the first British topographical picture cards and the very early 20th century as the time when their production became prolific. I have a card postmarked May 24, 1902 of...

I shall, as one of the very, very few "regular" contributors to this forum. I've never been tempted to go to my local club as it's an awkward journey to the other side of town and, TBH, I'm not interested in very many themes outside my own. As for technology, at my age I prefer checking ou...