postcard.co.uk

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 (...

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...

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....

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...

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...

The "expert" was Jonty and the auction was somewhere in Buckinghamshire. Whoever was the fortunate bidder certainly got a bargain. I feel sure that there was no serious postcard collector present , because he or she would have realised the value of the cards and would have certainly enter...

: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"...

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: &...

"Bipex" always seems very quiet on the second day - very pleasant, compared with the business of some fairs. Last year a dealer commented that there was talk of moving the event to Docklands and looked a bit indignant when I said that in that case I would think twice about coming because i...

... I recently got pipped at the post for a comic card and emailed the winner to congratulate him. A couple of messages later resulted in him sending me a few unwanted comics that I was looking for!!!! "John Boy" Last year I put in a bid of up to four times the dealer's rate for a postcar...

:D Four times the fair price? Wow! More money than sense you suggest? I'm glad you said it but can't help agreeing with that! ... Crazy hobby at times eh? "John Boy" Well! The three evenings of bidding for the cards are over, and Wednesday was fun - half-a-dozen lots at minute intervals. ...

Which brings to mind the most irritating phrase on Ebay "I cannot be held responsible for items lost in the post" (or similar statements) I understand that this is downright illegal for a business seller (sale of goods act) and extremely questionable for anyone else. In any other area of ...

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...

RAFPOL wrote: Incidently Moonraker, what is your particular subject?

"John Boy"

"Military Wiltshire 1897-1920". (OK I know it sounds like the specialist subject in Mastermind.)


Moonraker

: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 ...