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Postcards and would like to buy or offer your collectibles in our Online Marketplace or open your free listing direct supply store, you have come to the right place. We offer collectors, private sellers and dealers a place where to show their items listed for sale at auction or fixed price offering buyers a complete line, a huge variety of
different postcards they can choose from.
Postcards continue today to be the most popular form of travel souvenirs
in the United states as well as reasonably priced means of personal and business related
communication.
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, Nevada, New Hampshire ,
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, Wyoming ,
coming from many
different dealers, professional and amateur collectors, offering you a huge
variety of topics at auction or fixed price. allowing anyone to
market images and define their own price or let buyers bid on
content.
By 1873 United States postal
cards and privately printed cards started to appear. During this period
all privately printed Postal cards required the regular two cent letter
rate postage and the government printed Postal Cards required one cent.
American Postcard publishers were allowed to print and sell postcards
bearing the inscription, "Private Mailing Card, Authorized by Act of
Congress on May 19, 1898".
In 1901, the United States Postal Service granted the use of the words
"Post Card" on the undivided back of privately printed cards.
During "Undivided Back Era, 1901-1907" other countries began to permit
the use of a divided back on their postcards. This enabled the front to
be used exclusively for the image or design, while the back was divided
so that the left side was for writing messages and the right side for
the address.
In the years leading up to World War 1 German printers dominated the
postcard printing market. But, during and after World War 1 most
postcards were supplied by United States printers. The
cards of this era were printed with white borders around the
picture.
A change in printing technology enabled publishers to print cards on a
linen type paper stock with very bright and vivid colors.
Modern Photochrome style postcards first appeared in 1939 with the Union
Oil Company carrying them in their service stations. and are the ones most familiar to us today.
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