Inverted Postal Cards- Values/Best Guess

I found these postal cards and wondered if they had much interest or value to market them for sale or auction?

Nope.
You could buy them in full sheets (easier for people who wanted to print messages on them in bulk). Then it was just a matter of cutting them down.

It's just like the press sheets printed/sold today. You can buy one and cut all kinds of weird shapes out of them.

As to value, none to the informed, whatever to the uninformed.
C.

Postal cards have long been available for purchase in full size sheets to assist bulk mailers in printing on them. I have such an uncut sheet of a card issued over 30 years ago which I bought from the Postal Service. How I cut it is up to me. You can see that cutting it to produce inverts and odd shapes and examples with the indicia in odd configurations is easily and legally done. For this reason, cards such as what you are showing do not command much of a premium in the marketplace among collectors who know, and are told, the truth.

They are nice curiosities, and fun to look at.

Are there any examples out there or online that show these freakish self cut oddities used?

Are there any full sheets unused out there shown online for sale or in collections to see?

Sheet of 20 of UX42. (available presently on ebay)

In contrast, UX150 was NOT issues in sheets, so this card is a legitimate post office cutting error. I found 5 of these in a pack of cards I bought at the PO when they were current. I kept this one and sold the others in the $50-75 range long ago.

Interesting stuff, thank you all for posting.

The items I posted are located at ebay, guess we won't be rushing over there to buy to soon, eh...

His Ben Franklin isn't Ben...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ERROR-1917-...em2ed9a0765e

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ERROR-1914-...em2ed9a06c03

"Are there any examples out there or online that show these freakish self cut oddities used?"

Most of these are obvious fakes. However, there are a few errors that masquerade as cheap fakes.

This fellow is a result of the sheet (of cards) skidding in the press. Always measure the distance between the two indicia. Fakes will exhibit a card width distance between two identical spots on the indicia. A different distance is a result of the sheet going thru the press in a non-standard manner. You can see the skid marks in this example.

You found one used wow, impressed, would figured never would see one, but there it is.. very cool...

Yeah but it's a non-contemporary cancel, philatelic useage of a philatelically cut sheet of postcards?

How many know that the previously posted postal card with the 1951 postmark from Odd, Virginia was named named after the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) Lodge?

Here's an interesting history of how that community got the name and when it was discontinued:

Perhaps a Sir and Bro may find these interesting.

The add to the story, the Odd Fellows card is an interesting twice-mailed use. Mailed the first time as a bill notice on May 4 when (misfaced), it got the Barry machine cancel across the bottom. The recipient mailed it back with payment inside an envelope. The card was rubber-stamped as paid and remailed as a receipt by the Odd Fellows on June 3 with the added 2 cent stamp.

Miscut US postal cards, whether genuine errors or fakes, were (still are) valid for the face value of postage. Several approval companies manufactured their own miscuts and sold them as errors and two of the most popular fakes are those that LarryBruce shows at the start of this thread. Although these fake miscuts are neither errors nor freaks, they do qualify as oddities. A set of four, three fakes and one genuine, showing the heads in different corners makes for quite a conversation piece. Sorry, I forgot to take pictures before I sold my set.