@katzrul15 wrote:
@farmalljr wrote:
First of all, you need to learn a LOT about postcards.
See this listing:
James Whitcomb Riley Home - Indianapolis, Indiana
That is NOT a RPPC, it's a lithograph. I have not bothered to look at any of your other listings, but if you can't tell a Chrome litho from a RPPC card, you aren't really prepared to sell postcards to begin with.
Don't mean to sound so negative, but you can't think you aren't going to run into piles of issues if you are listing your stuff wrong. These are false item descriptions. If you don't know what you are selling and just list it anyway, that's a surefire plan to get your account in trouble with defects.
It's not hard to tell a reprint from an original postcard. I could tell you how, but it's apparent you haven't spent any time even learning to identify postcards properly.
Would you be kind enough to tell me? I do buy them for a relative (she collects) and You are correct - if the Seller is not overly familiar, the listings can be mis-leading. More than once, I thought I was getting a vintage lot and when they arrived, clearly they were not, even though the listing stated they were.
I'm into postcards now... don't know a lot... The first vintage lot I got (1970 to 2000 which isn't quite vintage, but it's stated in the listing), it belonged to family of the B&M shop owner, and they collected them from travels since 1970. The older cards have kind of washed out colours, but the cards from 2000 are as vibrant as something I can buy it the store today.
When the B&M shop owner's family heard that they unloaded 500 postcards on me and they were selling, a new "antique" album turned up. They are all postmarked over 100 years go (or close to it), with stamps that were in use 100 years ago. I say that lot was legitimate (and it obviously belonged to one family and got passed down over the years, but their millennial grandchildren don't care about collecting postcards).
I bought a lot that was mostly B&W (mainly France, but some Germany and Switzerland too). The photos were definitely of 100 years ago and the owner dated their postcards, but none were mailed. The ones that were in colour were super washed out and dull. A few cards snapped when I tried to remove them from the album, and they were in the type of album we would have had 75+ years ago (my mom had a photo album that was similar to what I got in the mail). I think those were legit as well, and some of the photos were not that good (with toning on the backs where they were tucked in the corners), definitely something you wouldn't reproduce.
I've got two more albums coming... one has postcards that are drawings, the other has cards from Italy which I haven't gotten yet. They show the outside of the album that they are in, and the album is definitely antique (albums is something I do know a fair bit about from stamp dealing). I would be more suspicious of a box of postcards that look too nice of condition.
C.
