Fifteen years ago Bill Schaal, a friend of John Lawson, gave him his first postcard. The card was of an old scene from Hampton, where Lawson grew up. At that moment, Lawson fell in love with ...

Joe Vella of Decatur has spent a lifetime collecting postcards and has perhaps the world’s most extensive collection. His collection of more than 52,000 postcards dwarfs the Guinness World Record ...

Since 1979, the Half Moon Postcard Club has held its annual show and sale as a fundraiser for local food pantries, charitable organizations and area historical societies. "We don't keep anything," ...

It started for Peter Keyes the same way it does for many postcard collectors: with just one._ The Newbury resident, a retired high school history and economics teacher from Massachusetts, was ...

Robert Drew has never met a postcard he didn't like. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Perhaps that's why he owns more than 250,000 postcards, believed to be one of the largest private ...

It all started innocently enough, with a $1 purchase at a regional antique show about 20 years ago. The acquisition: an early-1900s postcard depicting the summer theater at Pueblo's Lake Minnequa ...

NEW YORK — Marilyn Stern held out a black-and-white postcard of a baby panda from 1948. “What’s interesting to me is that it says, ‘Most valuable captive animal,'” said Stern, one of a few dozen ...

On Sunday, we celebrate our country’s birthday — a time for parades and flag-waving, backyard cookouts and the requisite fireworks show. It’s also an ideal chance for collectors to pull out their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week’s column mentioned postcards in passing. I love postcards and have mentioned them in various contexts several times over ...

ONEIDA - A window into the past will be opened for viewers of the thousands of vintage postcards on display Saturday at the 28th annual spring Postcard Show and Sale at St. Paul's United Methodist ...

Collecting old postcards can generate a great deal of excitement and net a nifty profit, once one gets the ”message” as to which cards are most important and therefore sought after. The value of an ...