However, I feel that this Cinderella area of postcard collecting is worthy of a thread of its own - so here goes.
I set out a couple of years ago collecting printed artist cards by "Jotter" aka Walter Hayward Young but soon came across a couple of hand painted Irish cards that I just had to have and it's snowballed since then. Being such a niche end of the postcard collecting scene there's precious few Irish cards out there and I soon moved on to British subjects and have even been known to buy 'foreign' cards on occasion! My latest acquisition (below) picked up yesterday for just £5.95.
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"Yes Tor", Dartmoor - a real mini work of art.
There are more on my Irish Postcards Forum here: http://irishpostcards.boardhost.com/vie ... d=107#p107
and my Irish Postcards site here: https://irishpostcards.wordpress.com/hand-painted/
Anyway, I'll be back with more on this subject when I have gathered my thoughts. I would be interested to hear from anybody else who is collecting handpainted cards.