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Posted 03/21/2009   5:37 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add John1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I have these post card booklets and would like to know if any of them have a value and what it would be. Each one has ten cards with pictures on both sides folded accordion style except the first one which is a standard post card.Thanks all.
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Posted 03/21/2009   5:47 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add kirks to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't know the answer to your question, John; but I'm sure someone here will be able to help.

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Posted 03/21/2009   7:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Jayelem to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A quick look on ebay yielded the following $$ Prices for booklets from the 20's and 30's - 50's,60's , $9.99 seemed to be the top price , $3.99 median price , and some postcard booklets (have mercy) sold for .68 cents , real beauties too I might add.

There were a few that went as high as $25.00 - $30.00 , rarities as Calfornia earthquake and one bboklet from Cadiz Spain.

Booklets featuring New York , 9 listed , 2 sold for .99 cents

Dixieland and Maxwell field were listed in ebay stores at much higher than average prices , $37 dollars and $20 dollars , I found the same Dixieland booklet for .99 cent on auction and $3.65 Buy it now.

Hope I answered your question , oh.... the Easter card (no idea $$$ ???)you never know maybe that Postcard is a keeper.
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Posted 03/21/2009   8:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modern_who to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
John, they are worth what someone is willing to pay for them. The $37 and $20 booklet on auction
with a $.99 start and $3.65 BIN demonstrates this. A seller might get his $37 eventually, but it
might not even get a 99 cent bid for the other seller. It depends on who is looking at the time
and how much they want it.
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Posted 03/21/2009   9:50 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stamperdude to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There are a lot of postcard dealers and collectors out there. A few stamp shows I go to are almost half if not more of postcard dealers. I myself pick up postcards every now and then with a Route 66 theme. I also like the Greetings From cards.
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Posted 03/22/2009   12:46 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Jayelem to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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John, they are worth what someone is willing to pay for them. The $37 and $20 booklet on auction
with a $.99 start and $3.65 BIN demonstrates this. A seller might get his $37 eventually, but it
might not even get a 99 cent bid for the other seller. It depends on who is looking at the time
and how much they want it.


So true Modern , the price is determined by what a buyer is willing to spend.

I don't know of a catalog for postcards ,so I just study and research the condition of the item and what items have sold for in the past and currently.

I find most buyers pretty saavy when it comes to buying an item at a low price , of course when there is so much supply and so little demand you have bigger disparities in price , should all of the cheap Dixieland booklet's listed on ebay dissapeared then the higher price would be the only price we could compare it to.

I thought the ebay store price was exagerated , but then again I've seen sellers that claim they know nothing about stamps list a stamp with a .20 cent used value for 20 dollars with a description of very old , whether or not the seller is educated about the price , as a buyer we have to educate ourselves before paying what is being asked.

My postcard collection wasn't put together in a day , I'm willing to wait if the price isn't right.
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Posted 03/23/2009   08:09 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modern_who to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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I don't know of a catalog for postcards


That's just it, Jayelem, there seems to be no way of easily establishing relative value with postcards
as there is with stamps. For one thing, Postcard collecting may be more eclectic a pursuit. People
may purchase them for reasons that are more personal than postage stamps. Maybe they like a
photograph on a real photo card. Or scenes from the town in which they grew up. Or even a motel
where they stayed along the way. I've had a Kelly buy a comic card because the character referred
to on the card was a policeman named Kelly. I've seen a couple of bidders go crazy and really send
up a card of a mermaid, and if just one of them was looking at the time, it probably would have sold
for only 99 cents!

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There, that's better. This screen was going extra wide due to the big
pictures so I hacked this down to readable length.
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