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Where does time ago? Another absolutely manic year and we're approaching Christmas again. Here's my latest offering and my personal card for 2018. Original postcard purchased for a couple of pounds and with a little magic from Vistaprint good to go. The wonderful original hand-painted card was sent ...

My latest acquisition is this nice card titled " A scene in the New Forest " unposted but probably from the early 1900s - a bargain on eBay at just £4.95 including postage. That said if I put a price on the hours that I spend searching! https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ckxY7ba1Euc/W_AcxJVM7jI/AA...

And further confirmation today with a duplicate of another card in my collection turning up on Delcampe. Subtle differences in colours and it rather confirms my suspicion that the artist was running some sort of cottage industry. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ifggtn0ud0Y/W7-qKTfLtFI/AAAAAAAAe0A/D-DIQBI...

At last tonight I got partially to the bottom of a mystery that has been puzzling me for a while. I have been gradually acquiring a collection of cards ' seemingly ' handpainted by an artist signing themselves O.A.S. but there was something about them that indicated that they might have been mass pr...

I continue to save lost souls and thought that this poor Robin - probably c.100+ years old - deserved to live again. All of 99 pence on eBay yesterday and I'm already toying with another Vistaprint Christmas card idea. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e-xQZthBS70/W7yRCuSKmhI/AAAAAAAAeyw/fF8utgDBBMoIRZ99MM...

Added another nice unused one this week - Great Tits - just €3.90 incl.p+p on Delcampe.

Another series of cards that I've recently started collecting are these superb bird paintings by Swiss artist Eugen Hartung (1897-1973). I'm not sure what decade they date from, possibly late 1940's or pre-war WWII? A little bit about the publishers - Stehli Freres, Zurich - below. https://3.bp.blog...

Well, I didn't think that it was possible but the sexy new website makes the Message Forum even less obvious. Great move!

One mystery solved but a lot more to go... L Murdoch After several years trying to track down this mysterious artist, I have finally cracked it - thanks in the main to Mervyn Scott from Portstewart. It seems that I had been looking for the wrong artist all the time and L Murdoch was actually Lilian ...

Another mercy purchase and this one had been on Delcampe for quite a long time attracting no interest - not bad for just £2.40 including p+p. It has a certain simple charm and is a keeper. I still find myself having to wade through thousands of mislabelled cards - everything from hand-tinted cards t...

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_J5gGtnd_qw/W4ZFK9P7OXI/AAAAAAAAebE/c-9gCeqw2f8Sdq7L5a-vN8DMlPS_e_TwQCLcBGAs/s1600/New%2BChristmas%2BCard.PNG Just added this 1927 card to my collection - £10 on eBay incl.p+p. Destined to be one of my Christmas cards this year but not necessarily in this template. I just...

It has been discussed before but I can't find the thread. The level of activity here is quite disheartening and inexplicable - to me - as there are at least 90 PTA dealers listed on the site and if each one of them posted just once a year it would probably double the number of posts. I don't know ho...

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xdMqJxOReng/W4KUQ9foIRI/AAAAAAAAeZw/CojYiwQJcIwvFi3Nt0fWAfAjPuem_kG0wCLcBGAs/s1600/7296-spelga-pass-mourne-mountains-sp-co-pu-1938.jpg There's somebody else out there collecting Scholastic cards or perhaps it's the location? This sold on eBay recently for an incredible £6...

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0189301rAXU/W2cDh8MRDyI/AAAAAAAAeSQ/-rI8WZmWCpo2P-87JsxzCngFvUQZ3xezQCLcBGAs/s1600/T%2BHENRY%2BPERHAPS.jpg I came across the painting (top) on eBay recently and bought it as it bore a striking likeness to the Terence Henry postcard (bottom) already in my collection. My qu...

A couple of more purchases just arrived... https://irishpostcards.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/kynance-cover.jpg?w=840&h=525 Kynance Cove, The Lizard - Cornwall . An interesting oil painted card – addressed but not posted to a Mr.Harold Taylor, Mount Ambrose, Highway, Redruth – purchased on eBay ...