New Direction For My Pc Collection.

My new collecting direction is to acquire as many cards with nice pictures, with interesting (to me) stamps and cancels from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America. Shown are my first two purchases in pursuit of this new direction
















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I like the stamps on the first postcard and then the postcard opn the second showing. Neat viaduct / bridge.

stampfan9: Good luck with your new specialty!

Mr. Ike, thanks.

Love old postcards. There's a 2nd hand store, referred to as an antique store that has probably over a thousand postcard from the late 1800's to the 1920's. Of course they want $2 each, and most aren't worth more than a dime. But they are cool. I should go offer a lot price, since they always seem to be there.

You don't ask, you don't get ... but the management of a collectibles shop includes more than just moving goods at a profit.

Rather like the old cameras in a photo shop window, or an old sewing machine in a cloth shop window, the old postcards have value as eye candy: they make a shopper stop & look, which gives them a chance to slow down & buy.

Moreover, there is the issue of price point. If they are calling themselves an antiques shop, they may not want a customer to ever leave the store having spent less than a dollar. And it is always good for business to have a few things that are over-priced ;)

Lastly, of course, the cards do not take a lot of room, and the shop owner may not care if they dribble out, one-by-one. After all, it is the happy buyer who is the most likely to come back, and look again.

Okay ... I'm spending way too much time hanging at my local collectibles shop. The owner, BTW, spends his days, every day, constantly re-arranging his stock, so that the regulars notice new things, even if they are not new.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

A "George Washington slept here" Postcard from Barbados to Connecticut, USA. Per my 1923 Scott's catalogue: Barbados Scott 72 1892-1896 A8 with a 3 cents used value.

Charming street life scene in Grantstown, Nassau to Boston, MA postcard with a 1901 Scott Bahamas 33 paying the postage.

Cool 1905 Paraguay picture postcard to Scott Stamp and Coin in NYC with a nice city view of Asuncion Paraguay, as well as a nicely cancelled 1904 Scott Paraguay 100 paying the postage.

1904 Jamaica PC. I bought it for the cool Scott Jamaica 31 A12 waterfalls stamp. It seems the postal clerk had a bit of a time with his round stamp and finally just inked in a cancellation.

The mixed 'foreign' lots I buy at auction, from time-to-time, rarely include cards from South America.

And when I find cards from Mexico in the bargain box(es), they tend to be aesthetically awful.

Recently, by luck-of-the-lot, a few goodies have shown-up, almost all NYP (Not Yet Posted).

Deciphering the words on this card remains a challenge.

You might think that 'mex.' is obvious, but look at the way the 'x' is formed. Could that be 'mesc.'? The latter got me to a lake in Guatemala.

Searching on 'ameca' got me nowhere, and searching on 'cimeca' got me to a guy who has listed this same card for U$D 30 on eBay ... but I could not find towns or places named 'ameca' or 'cimeca' ...

Q/ Can anybody do better?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey





This is *not* definitive proof that the image is of Mexico; I would suspect that Kodak Mexicana Ltd serviced a large swath of Latin America, but that's me.

That is a gorgeous mountain wherever it is located.

I found one that was on eBay (that was) says
' PHOTO MEXICO CIMECA # 46 1937 '

The only picture is the obverse showing a postmark from Mexico D.F. (Districto Federale (I think)'.
Pic from eBay:


Cimeca is not the seller's name in that one. It is Uffdahhhpostcard, Uff Da!, with a neat Viking holding a Norwegian flag.
http://www.ebay.ca/usr/uffdahhhpostcard


So, also, Cimeca (I think it is also) could be the Mining company from South America.

Looks sort like Iztaccíhuatl (White Women), a dormant volcanic mountain in Mexico located on the border between the State of Mexico and Puebla.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...romonte1.JPG

the word under #46 may be a reference to "Amecameca" a town near Iztaccihualt

http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Amecameca

What are the arrows (seemimg) on your card?
Location of something perhaps?

The "arrows" are probably clearings on the mountain side.