Classic Comic Postcards: 20 Cards to Colour and Send to Your Loved Ones

Real photographic postcards: Printed direct from the negative and, in the 'Golden Age' of postcard production from 1902 to 1918, these cards were often produced in very limited numbers by local photographers. Such cards are scarce. Well-animated types, with children playing in a village centre or an early motorcar close-up, can sell for 15 to 30 each. A close-up of a steam lorry or an early omnibus in a town can be worth 40 to 70. A Suffragette procession or gypsy encampment can sell for over 100.

Classic Comic Postcards: 20 Cards to Colour

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Printed and coloured topographical cards: These were produced on a printing press and lack the definition of the real photographic card. When viewed under magnification, the printing screen can be seen as a system of dots. Such cards are more common than real photographic ones and command substantially reduced values.

Subject postcards: Collectors display an interest in a wide range of subjects - including animals, children, comics, shipping, novelty, railways and glamour. But the majority of subject cards do not achieve the intense interest attached to top of the range topographicals.

Very Good: Like an Excellent postcard but the corners may be slightly rounded and a few almost undetectable creases may be present. A very collectable postcard with a fine appearance, which may have writing and/or a postmark on the address side. If it is an early undivided back postcard, writing may appear on the front. The card may also have minor defects (such as album marks, signs of age and handling) but should show little or no discolouration. Most collectible cards are in this Very Good condition and should be worth about 20-25% less than an Excellent postcard.

The average industry response rate for postcards has been as low as .5%. Our comic cards, however, average out at 1% or more depending on your market. That means if you mail 1000 cards you can expect 10 calls. 1000 non-cursive comic cards can cost $1,200. That means, each call (for 10 calls), costs $120 each.

Despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly "saucy", postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. Sold by newsagents and street vendors, as well as by specialist souvenir shops, modern seaside postcards often feature multiple depictions of the resort in unusually favourable weather conditions. John Hinde used saturated colour and meticulously planned his photographs, which made his postcards of the later twentieth century become collected and admired as kitsch. Such cards are also respected as important documents of social history, and have been influential on the work of Martin Parr.

The initial appearance of picture postcards (and the enthusiasm with which the new medium was embraced) raised some legal issues. Picture postcards allowed and encouraged many individuals to send images across national borders, and the legal availability of a postcard image in one country did not guarantee that the card would be considered "proper" in the destination country, or in the intermediate countries that the card would have to pass through. Some countries might refuse to handle postcards containing sexual references (in seaside postcards) or images of full or partial nudity (for instance, in images of classical statuary or paintings). For example, the United States Postal Service would only allow the delivery of postcards showing a back view of naked men from Britain if their posteriors were covered with a black bar.[63] Early postcards often showcased photography of nude women. Illegal to produce in the United States, these were commonly known as French postcards, due to the large number of them produced in France. Other countries objected to the inappropriate use of religious imagery. The Ottoman Empire banned the sale or importation of some materials relating to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 1900. Affected postcards that were successfully sent through the Ottoman Empire before this date (and are postmarked accordingly) have a high rarity value and are considered valuable by collectors. 2ff7e9595c