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- Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:24 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Real Photo Or Not Real Photo?
- Replies: 8
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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...
- Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:59 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Where is everybody?
- Replies: 29
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- Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:35 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Real Photo Or Not Real Photo?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12287
- Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:55 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: £122 for a 1910 military Wiltshire card
- Replies: 11
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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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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, ...
- Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:58 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Ebay or fairs? The choice is yours.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 22221
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:29 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Canterbury, 6th October
- Replies: 4
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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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...