The Postcard Price Guide

Mashburn, a collector-dealer with over 29 years experience, has written and compiled this comprehensive guide filled with up-to-date price information and timley advice about how to be successful in this fascinating collectible field. (Colonial House Publishers)

The Real Photo Postcard Guide is an informative, comprehensive, and practical treatment of this wildly popular American phenomenon that dominated the United States photographic market during the first third of the twentieth century. Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh draw on extensive research and observation to address all aspects of the photo postcard from its history, origin, and cultural significance to practical matters like dating, purchasing, condition, and preservation. Illustrated with over 350 exceptional photo postcards taken from archives and private collections across the country, the scope of the Real Photo Postcard Guide spans technical considerations of production, characteristics of superior images, collecting categories, and methods of research for dating photo postcards and investigating their photographers. In a broader sense, the authors show how "real photo postcards" document the social history of America. From family outings and workplace awards to lynchings and natural disasters, every image captures a moment of American cultural history from the society that generated them. Bogdan and Weseloh’s book provides an admirable integration of informative text and compelling photographic illustrations. Collectors, archivists, photographers, photo historians, social scientists, and anyone interested in the visual documentation of America will find the Real Photo Postcard Guide indispensable.

Describes, illustrates, and lists the current market value of postcards from a wide range of subjects and time periods

A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards "takes you on a unique trip into the past. Inside this book, you'll find cards of high society and lowbrow humor, natural disasters, social, political, and religious movements, popular artists' illustrations, newspaper comics, circus animals, early movie stars, athletes, planes, trains, automobiles, and the corner general store--and much more! Authors Q. David Bowers and Mary L. Martin share decades of experience in buying, selling, and collecting. They guide you from the earliest postcards of the 1870s to the Golden Age of the 1890s through the Great War, and to the modern chrome postcards found on store racks today."--Publishers website.

A fully illustrated history and price guide to more than 100 collecting categories, from attwell to zodiac.

The picture postcard has become the prime collectible of the 1990s. Hundreds of collectors, dealers, and investors are entering the hobby daily. Written and compiled by Mashburn, a veteran collector-dealer, The Artist-Signed Postcard Price Guide has been acclaimed by collectors, dealers, and librarians as a leading reference in the field. (Colonial House Publishing)