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Occasionally I contact eBay vendors to point out that their description of a card is incorrect. Half of them appreciate this and change the details, others ignore me. There is one Australian dealer offering postcards of Wiltshire army badges carved in the hillside, with the wrong nearby village ment...

Grr :cry: I don't buy much on eBay but have just spotted a nice "military Wiltshire" card. The mini-image showed there were two oval franks on the reverse and my initial reaction was that these might be military- and highly collectable. No, one was was for "Bill Hopkins Collection&quo...

In a "pocket album" from a reputable manufacturer and/or dealer. "WWI postcards" covers a very wide range of topics, and you could spend several hundred pounds at a postcard fair, where nearly every dealer will have a "military", perhaps even a WWI, section. Some stands...

Googling " Bill Hopkins Collection - Notting Hillgate" produces a number of hits relating to postcards with this stamped on their backs. Time was when a few dealers rubber-stamped their details on the backs of cards. A bit annoying, not that much importance appears to be attached to the co...

I used to go to six or seven postcard fairs a year, sometimes travelling quite a distance. Then I found the number of purchases I was making was diminishing, I was buying a few cards that I wasn't too bothered about just to justify my trip and I was mistakenly buying the occasionally card that I alr...

Hi Nic. Why not go to one of the postcard fairs listed in the events section of this website? There must a be a few within easy reach of SE London. Then you can show them to several dealers and, hopefully, get some offers. If you post some details of the collection, that might just encourage a deale...

"Seaside resort" postcards can be quite common, so not worth very much. Photos of the sea front, town centre or hotels were the obvious choice for visitors to buy and send. A few years ago I had a dozen such PCs 90 or 100 years old of Torquay - I did offer them on eBay, but got no bids at ...

Probably not a great deal, as the market for cards of this era is much smaller than for those of a century ago. I suspect that there aren't many postcard fairs in your part of the world; the usual advice is to visit one and see what the dealers there say.

Hi David We've discussed copyright before on this forum and it's a recurring theme on a Great War Forum to which I belong. If you can readily determine that the publisher is still in business then it would be courteous to contact them. But in most cases the copyright will have lapsed, or the copyrig...

I can't help you, CanadaWWI, but as we've met elsewhere I just thought to welcome you to this forum!


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I won a PC for 99p on eBay the other day and it was posted to me between two double pieces of thick cardboard (that's four in all, making a 20mm packet). Better too much than too little. Earlier this month I winced when from an other eBay vendor I received an old letter written on one small sheet wi...

Seeing no-one has jumped in to reply, here are my thoughts on Spud's first question,. The card-backed envelopes are quite expensive and most eBay vendors who send me cards opt for placing them inside one of those perspex (?) envelopes that dealers use at fairs, which provides a degree of waterproofi...

Some people conscientiously check if a company that published a postcard 100 years ago is still in business - or if there's a traceable descendant of the individual who did so - which can be a bit of a chore if one is publishing a book with 85 old postcards reproduced, as I've just done. Others make...

Nick This is one of many aspects of copyright that takes us in ever-decreasing circles, as I've found on a Great War forum to which I belong. If I was in your shoes I wouldn't worry, but then I'm inclined to be pragmatic about these things. There can be just a couple of prints of a century-old postc...

The trick is to gauge accurately the thickness of the envelope and to determine if it's passing freely through the slot. My own Royal Mail gauge is of thin card, so the sides of the slot are a little more forgiving than the rigid plastic (?) one that Royal Mail staff use, and more prone to wear. Moo...