Postcard With Scalloped Edges

This post card's outer edge is scalloped (similar to pinking shear cut but points plus rounded). It's the only one I've come across with a different outer edge and I was wondering if it was common?



Thanks in advance for any help.
Lucky

Cards are punched with a die cut, Lucky,
not scarce, but not common either.
Never came across any that collect them.

Still have them in postcard shops today.

Berlin Wall scolloped :

Thanks for the info Rod and sharing your postcard scan.

Lucky

Hi Lucky & All

Postcards with 'scalloped' edges have been around in North America since the late 1940s and into the early 1960s. Some cards are still found to this present day with these edges.

They made their appearance in Europe in the very late 1920s and again to roughly the mid 1960s. When I state 1960s, I don't mean that they ended then, but they started to appear far less often but still do occasionally turn up.

I have been told by a 'deltiologist' friend that these edges are called 'deckled' edges, which to some, is the more correct term. For myself personally, I have always referred to them as 'scalloped' too and it is a hard habit to get out of <G>.

Hope this helps

Chimo

Bujutsu

Your talk of scallops is making me hungry.

I just came across a 1914 deckled egde card from Germany.

I've got a few deckled postcards. I had always used the term "scalloped" as well. Now I will use the correct term, if I remember. I always see them in the piles of cards at antique shops.

Thanks for the scan of that card Battlestamps

I learned one more thing today <g>

I am wondering now how early these 'deckled' cards came into being??

Chimo

Bujutsu

....always learning Deltiologist and deckled

I like it.

I foresee early pictorial postcards prices going
through the roof in the next 100 years.
Western Australian PPC's are already around $25 each
for historical style.

wiki
This article is about the practice of collecting postcards. For postcards themselves, see Postcard.

A postcard collectionDeltiology (from Greek , deltion, diminutive of äÝëôïò, deltos, "writing tablet, letter"; and -ëïãßá, -logia) is the study and collection of postcards. Compared to philately, the identification of a postcard's place and time of production can often be an impossible task because postcards, unlike stamps, are produced in a decentralised, unregulated manner. For this reason, some collectors choose to limit their acquisitions to cards by specific artists and publishers, or by time and location.

Deckled:

In manual papermaking, a deckle is a removable wooden frame or "fence" placed into a mould to keep the paper slurry within bounds and to control the size of the sheet produced. After the mold is dipped into a vat of paper slurry, excess water is drained off and the deckle is removed and the mold shaken or "couched" to set the fibers of the paper. Some of the paper slurry passes under the deckle and forms an irregular, thin edge. Paper with a feathered or soft edge is described as having a "deckled" edge, in contrast with a cut edge.[1]

Machine made paper may artificially have its edges produced to resemble a deckle edge. This is most commonly used for private presses or fancy stationery.[2]