I have always been attracted to the comic baseball postcards that take the baseball terminology and apply it to other things such as lovers. A Base Hit for example. Read More +
Author Archives: Susan Brown Nicholson
Pursuing the Marvelous: Gospel wagons
Dwight L. Moody was one of the great evangelists of the 19th century. Moody started the Bible-Work Institute of the Chicago Evangelization Society (renamed Moody Bible Institute shortly before his death), one of the first in the Bible school movement. Read More +
Pursuing the Marvelous: Crossing America
During the postcard era we can see the progression of American transportation from horse and buggy to jet planes. But the early days of automobile transportation is the most fun to collect. Read More +
Postcard hobby alive and well at auction
The fall auction at the Lyn Knight gallery proved once again that the postcard hobby is alive and well. Bidding wars were fought for many fantastic postcards. Record prices were achieved on real photo postcards, as well as artist signed and Halloween. Read More +
The Postcard Dealer 1906
In 1906, there was a trade publication that came out every month or two that was sent to people to encourage them to sell postcards. The covers say “Appealing to the Stationery, Art & Souvenir Novelty Dealers.” Read More +
Black postcards provide another, more rare, Halloween topic
It is evident that Halloween is one of the highly collected postcard holiday topics. The extreme prices on rare John Winsch publishing Halloween postcards have been recorded many times into the thousand dollars a card range to a low of about $100. Read More +