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by Moonraker
Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:24 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Real Photo Or Not Real Photo?
Replies: 8
Views: 12287

Davy: One would think so, but I've never been aware of any difference in prices asked, certainly with Wiltshire army camp cards: these were published by the many local photographers whose output was mainly RPs (I presume), and also in quantity by several national companies. I suppose a large company...
by Moonraker
Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:59 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Where is everybody?
Replies: 29
Views: 130692

... As their stocks are neatly arranged, it isn't too hard to find stuff initially... Not always. There are a few dealers with idiosyncratic ideas about arranging and the alphabet. "Wiltshire" - my interest - sometimes drops off the end of the sequence, and is sometimes left at home (whic...
by Moonraker
Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:35 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Real Photo Or Not Real Photo?
Replies: 8
Views: 12287

I confess that in eleven years of collecting I have vaguely wondered only once or twice what a "Real Photo" card is; now I know, thanks to Michael. But does it really matter if a card with a photo on it is or isn't a RP? Does this in itself affect the value? Obviously a genuine RP of which...
by Moonraker
Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:55 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: £122 for a 1910 military Wiltshire card
Replies: 11
Views: 17218

Re: £122 for a 1910 military Wiltshire card

I've just started selling my stamp collection (I gave up collecting British Commonwealth and GB in the 1970s, and cycling stamps in the mid 1990s) and am a little surprised at the very low starting prices given by many sellers and the limited interest. Of course there's an abundance of a lot of the ...
by Moonraker
Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:46 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: £122 for a 1910 military Wiltshire card
Replies: 11
Views: 17218

I've now spoken to a major collector of cards of the precise category I described in my initial post. He too felt the £122 card was worth about £20. From the arch-anorak's viewpoint, the station setting is as shown in quite a few other cards and the rake of horse wagons was not particularly notewo...
by Moonraker
Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:25 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: £122 for a 1910 military Wiltshire card
Replies: 11
Views: 17218

£122 for a 1910 military Wiltshire card

Blimey. Just finished bidding for three postcards showing the South Midland Division arriving at and marching from Ludgershall Station in Wiltshire in 1910. I won two of the cards at "dealer prices", but the third went for a whopping £122, with someone else willing to go up to £120. It was...
by Moonraker
Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:26 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Ebay or fairs? The choice is yours.
Replies: 13
Views: 22221

... I'm keeping my fingers crossed that a recent purchaser will be content with a slightly tatty card I've just sold him for at least double its worth after he got in a bidding contest with someone else. When I listed the card, I was looking at it under artificial light and mentioned some defects, ...
by Moonraker
Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:58 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Ebay or fairs? The choice is yours.
Replies: 13
Views: 22221

... I received three "Blown Up" photographic copies of the cards. For the sake of a couple of quid I have decided to make a note of the seller and not to bid on his auction again, rather than go through the motions of complaining and having emails etc. flowing back and forth. OK, hands up...
by Moonraker
Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:29 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Canterbury, 6th October
Replies: 4
Views: 9110

Although the days of the postcard fair have a distinctly numbered look about them, I expect a few others will show up. Oh dear: more pessimism, and I thought I was a gloomy type! Or it it realism? Individual views apart, is this the general view in the trade? I suppose the reasons are eBay, limited...
by Moonraker
Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:05 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Ebay or fairs? The choice is yours.
Replies: 13
Views: 22221

Caveat emptor applies more on eBay; not so much rogues but ignorant people who don't know their subject; I've learnt to query anything at all uncertain, and in half-a-dozen cases have had the vendor accepted that they had erred. There's one card on eBay now to which the description, itself a bit ga...
by Moonraker
Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:25 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Ebay or fairs? The choice is yours.
Replies: 13
Views: 22221

Re: Ebay or fairs? The choice is yours.

Shepton Mallet does bring a lot of dealers to an area not over-blessed with large fairs. (In fact when I went to its predecessor at Yeovil, I found it too crowded for comfort.) eBay is here to stay, for better or worse, and I guess we have to live with it. As I've said in another thread, if I still ...
by Moonraker
Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:59 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: This year's Bipex - a bit flat?
Replies: 11
Views: 19288

... The first day was very busy until about 4pm, after that I could have been at any provincial fair. The dealers who went home happy were the ones who had saved up a lot of special cards for the show, plus the foreign dealers generally, who attract certain well heeled customers, and have novelty v...
by Moonraker
Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:52 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Where is everybody?
Replies: 29
Views: 130692

'Where is everybody?' They're all looking for bargains on ebay I'm afraid. Tony Dunno about bargains as such, but it's been a year (and several large fairs) since I've picked up a really desirable card other than on eBay. Taking into account postage costs (currently I'm watching one card where p &a...
by Moonraker
Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:02 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Where is everybody?
Replies: 29
Views: 130692

From my recent visit to the Chester fair, the first for a long time, I too got a bit bothered by 'aggressive' dealers. I arrived soon after opening, and obviously a bit overwhelmed by the stock, had a quick scout around to see what was on offer. But sometimes I only had to glance at a table for the...
by Moonraker
Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:43 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Where is everybody?
Replies: 29
Views: 130692

Re: Where is everybody?

I see that we have 200 registered users of this very nice site and yet the frequency of members posts is not that great. Hasn't anybody got anything to say about our great hobby? :D "John Boy" Still no signs of Forum members rushing to express their views. There seem to be four truly acti...