It started for Peter Keyes the same way it does for many postcard collectors: with just one._ The Newbury resident, a retired high school history and economics teacher from Massachusetts, was ...
Since 1979, the Half Moon Postcard Club has held its annual show and sale as a fundraiser for local food pantries, charitable organizations and area historical societies. "We don't keep anything," ...
Fifteen years ago Bill Schaal, a friend of John Lawson, gave him his first postcard. The card was of an old scene from Hampton, where Lawson grew up. At that moment, Lawson fell in love with ...
Robert Drew has never met a postcard he didn't like. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Perhaps that's why he owns more than 250,000 postcards, believed to be one of the largest private ...
Members of the Hampton Roads Postcard Club celebrate the area’s heritage with rare collectibles. The members of the Hampton Roads Postcard Club believe that you don’t need a big frame to show someone ...
When Karen Martin started collecting postcards, her mother was surprised that anyone would consider these cards — which sold for a penny or two in their heyday — worth saving, much less studying and ...
OLMSTED TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- They are simple, elegant, amusing, informative, diverse, easily stored and affordable. Why wouldn't someone collect postcards? Dozens who attended the Western Reserve Post ...
Collecting old postcards can generate a great deal of excitement and net a nifty profit, once one gets the ”message” as to which cards are most important and therefore sought after. The value of an ...
Darlene Thorne has been calling herself a deltiologist for the last 50 years, since collecting her first vintage postcard. The title may not require a diploma, but it does require a huge passion for ...
NORTH ST PAUL, Minnesota — Inside the 7th Avenue Antique Mall in downtown North St. Paul, the past is preserved. "I'm a nostalgic old fool, I suppose," said Jerry Peterson, who has owned the shop ...