What Is The Best Place For Finding Collectible Postcards?

You’ve found that the best place to find collectible postcards is at art auctions.

You were at an art auction in Eastlake, Ohio looking for stained glass and found them auctioning a lot of vintage collectible postcards.

You bought the lot at the art auction and it contained almost three thousand beautiful collectible postcards.

Following are the popular collectible postcards:

About thirty percent of the collectible postcards were pre-linen.  These were all made before 1930.  The linen collectible postcards were made from 1930 to 1945 and the lot you won at the art auction had thirty percent linen cards as well.

Forty percent of the lot you won at the art auction was for early chrome collectible postcards.  Most of them were from the fifties and sixties.  There were also collectible postcards from the British museum series from the seventies.

The collectible postcards that are your favorite are all turn of the century and were sent for holidays.  Valentine’s Day collectible postcards from the early 1900s are very romantic.  The Christmas cards have some really nice artwork.  You were really fortunate with the purchase at the art auction because the assortment was so varied.

Your collection of collectible cards contains many different themes.  You like the non-US card.  You found an art auction that had a shoebox full of these cards and they were from places like Bermuda, Zurich, Rio de Janeiro, Dresden, Germany, Ireland and even Istanbul.  You had never owned a collectible postcard from Niger before that art auction.

People who do not collect vintage collectible postcards just don’t understand their value.  They are usually not even mentioned as being part of an art auction.  You go to art auctions every other weekend on the off chance that there will be collectible postcards on the auction block.

You are always so pleased when you find linen ere collectible postcards at an art auction.  The auctioneer at most art auctions does not even announce the lot as linen postcards; he usually just announces it as vintage or old collectible cards.  His lack of knowledge of the subject almost always works to your advantage.

You have various collections of collectible postcards within the main collection.  You tried for awhile to complete a set of state views in all linen era postcards.  You can’t even count how many art auctions you attended before you even had thirty of the forty eight states.  You know that you finally tired of the pursuit and have just put it on the back burner.

The holiday collectible postcards go to collectors of more than just postcards.  You’ve seen people buy holiday collectible postcards at an art auction just to frame and decorate with them during certain holidays.  You actually found five really nice vintage Christmas collectible cards at an art auction and had them framed for my mother as a Christmas gift.

You went to an art auction and estate sale of a man whose grandfather had been a colonel army officer.  The collectible postcards that you found there were fantastic.  The officer had amassed 353 different postcards from India.  It was amazing.  They had been tucked into an album and never used and were in perfect condition.

For awhile, you thought that you wanted to collect postcards from soldiers in WWI. You found a two hundred piece lot of this type of collectible postcards at an art auction in New Haven.  The mix of cards was British, French and German.  It was interesting because some of the collectible postcards were censored.  You’ve never seen censored collectible postcards before.

The most you’ve ever spent on collectible postcards at an art auction was $530 for four postcards.  They were all from 1904 and they depicted automobile racing.  They were in pristine condition.  You doubt that you will ever find any more even remotely like this the rest of my life.  They were exceptional.

The lot of collectible postcards you found last weekend was really fun to look through.  The art auction had a lot of things from a family that had emigrated here from Serbia.  The postcards were all from either Serbia or Belgrade.  This was a good lot and it went for the opening bid.

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