Help Need To Identify Worldwide Postal Cards

Hello. I am hoping this is the correct section. Please let me know if not.

I have about 50 of these old Postal Cards from about 1875 to 1899 or so from many different countries. I would like to try and identify them and find out the catalog value. Most are unused.

I don't think they are in the standard Scott Catalogs I have from 2010 so I was wondering if anyone would be able to photocopy catalog pages for the Postal Card section for the following countries and mail it to me. I will gladly pay cash for your assistance or can pay with mint US stamps at 50% of face value.

The countries I need would be:
Antigua
Barbados
British Bermuda
British Guiana
British Honduras
British Borneo
Cape Of Good Hope
Ceylon
Gibraltar
Grenada
Hong Kong
East India
Jamaica
Mauritius
South Wales
St. Christopher
Sierra Leone
Straits Settlements
Tobaco
Trinidad

Thank for any help.
Robert

Hi,
This might be tougher than you think as there's no one catalog as far as I know for worldwide postal stationery anymore. There's no form of Scott catalogs that covers worldwide postal stationery outside of U.S. postal stationery. You would need pages from a variety of catalogs and many are not up to date. Higgins & Gage were the last set of worldwide postal stationery catalogs and they haven't been printed for many decades. The are helpful to identify postal cards, but the catalog values are way out of date. Looks like your list is all British Commonwealth, but I don't know if Stanley Gibbons has printed anything that would cover them.

Wow. Thanks. I did not expect to wake up to this answer. Well I guess if anyone can help identify the catalog numbers, that would be helpful. Then maybe I could search ebay for recent sales (if any) to get an approx. value. But without the catalog number it would be nearly impossible.

Thanks again,
Robert

You can check out Torres for an Idea of prices:
http://www.antoniotorres.com/

ebay completed sales will help to give you a ball park idea as to value. In many cases the postally used cards sell better than the unused ones.

You don't need to know any catalog number to search. If you really need catalog numbers, Higgins and Gage would be best, but not many people have access to it anymore. A few here have a complete set. But as said before the catalog values are beyond out of date.
Just try something like "North Borneo postal card" and see what pops up. Try looking at Delcampe too.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...H_Complete=1

OK Thanks for the tips. I will check out Torres and ebay with out the catalog numbers and see what I find.
Thanks again,
Robert

I've been looking at a lot of ebay listings for 19th-century postal cards in recent months, and yeah, catalog numbers won't help much in your searches there. Some listings have H&G numbers, others (depending on country) may have Scott, Unitrade, Michel, or what have you. But the majority of listings don't have any catalog number in the description.

Of the last 25 unused postal cards I've bought on ebay, 4 listings included an H&G number, 21 included no catalog number at all.

I have the PDF version of Ascher's Großer Ganzsachen-Katalog, which is helpful for identifying and organizing my old cards, but it's worthless for determining current prices, since it's 90 years old with values in Reichsmark. The updated price table for it isn't much of an improvement, being 30 years old with values in Deutsche Mark.