Postcard Collecting

Collecting vintage postcards is a fun hobby for anyone who loves art, history, paper, ephemera and/or has the time and money to invest in a relatively inexpensive hobby. One way to start is to...

My very own postcard collection was launched when my Great Aunt left me her boxes of hundreds of postcards from the early 1900s. Over the years, as I ran my collectibles business, I picked up...

Vintage postcards are a collector's item, a treasure for home-schooler's and a blast for crafter's. One of the resources below cites vintage postcards as the # 3 most collected item in the...

Sending a message to someone on a post card is usually because we don't have the time to sit long enough to spend the time writing a letter. With a post card, we can send a word or two plus a nice...

You have invested a lot of time, effort and money in collecting postcards. Properly storing your postcard collection will help maintain its value and increase your enjoyment of the collection. ...

Collecting postcards is an interesting and enjoyable hobby. In the early 20th century people didn’t have cameras, so as a way of remembering their travels they purchased postcards. For a penny,...

There's a really neat idea out on the internet: a postcard exchange program. You sign up, get the address of someone in another country and send them a postcard. In return, you receive a postcard...

First used in the United States in 1893, the postcard is a standardized rectangle of thin cardboard or thin cardstock that was created to be mailed without an envelope, for a reduced postage rate....

Now that the Holiday season has come to a end. It is time for the task of cleaning up. This is a article that will give you a idea for all of those beautiful Holiday photo cards that you received.

Collecting and identifying real photo postcards is a fun and satisfying hobby for anyone.

Collecting vintage postcards is a fun an inexpensive hobby anyone can enjoy!

Why tell people you are a postcard collector? It’s much more impressive to say that you are interested in deltiology, which is simply the study and collection of postcards. It’s an...

As an avid collector with over 37,000 cards, I could not rely on the old shoebox to store or present my collection. I needed a better way to access the cards and make it easy to expand. It took a...

Collecting vintage holiday and greeting postcards can be a fun pastime. Generally, the postcards do nt cost a lot of money and you can find interesting designs. Vintage postcards can be found in a...

Whether you're trying to downsize your personal collection or just found some in your garage, selling vintage postcards can be profitable. Since they're proven to be one of the most popular items...

Americana postcards depict a simpler time of homemade apple pie, baseball in the backyard, and nightly dinners around the table. The popularity of collecting Americana postcards largely stems from...

Vintage postcards give us a glimpse of a more romantic time, a time in history when we took time for correspondence to say hello to friends instead of dashing off a quick email. The beauty of...

Ever since postcards were invented in the 19th century as an economical way to send short messages, the public has enjoyed the process of selecting cards to send to family and friends. The right...

When considering storage for a postcard collection, you should bear in mind that you not only want to store your collection, but you also want to preserve the postcards in the best possible...

If your love of postcards grows beyond simply buying them to send to friends and family from your latest vacation spot, you may decide to become a serious collector. Most collectors have their own...

If they're lucky, most postcard collectors will come across a few rare postcards that they can add to their collections during their lifetime. And if other collectors are lucky, the aforementioned...

Although the majority of postcards are relatively inexpensive, every now and then the passionate collector will find herself in a position to indulge in the purchase of a rare postcard. These...

One of the most interesting aspects of postcard collecting is the chance to trade postcards with other collectors in a private group or at postcard shows. Since there are literally millions of...

Postcard collectors throughout the United States and the rest of the world are as enthusiastic about this activity as others are about collecting antique furnishings or classic automobiles. The...

With the millions and millions of postcards that come from all over the world, it's not surprising that there will be times when a collector will not be able to identify an image on one or more of...

Keeping abreast of the most up-to-date information on any topic can be difficult, especially with the amount of information that we get from television, radio and the Internet. That is why more...

There are few collectors who don't get caught up in the excitement and anticipation of attending auctions, and postcard fanatics are no exception. With hundreds or even thousands of postcards...

You can call yourself a deltiologist - that's a postcard collector. They say it's the third largest collectible hobby in the world. Why? Postcards are inexpensive, cover thousands of subjects and...