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The
Artist-Signed Postcard Price Guide: A Comprehensive Reference
by J. L. Mashburn
Book Description:
This book was written and compiled by J.L. Mashburn specifically for the collectors of Artist-Signed postcards issued from 1898 to 1950, both U.S. and Foreign. It is a very easy to use reference containing works of the World's greatest, as well as minor postcard artists and lists many near-complete checklists with values of each card. Included are chapters on Beautiful Ladies, Beautiful Children, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, French Glamour, Color Nudes, Blacks, Sports, Comics, Animals, Miscellaneous and Linen-era artists. Some of the cards pictured are worth up to $15000 each. Many others are worth hundreds of dollars. This book should be in every collectors library.
Black
Americana Postcard Price Guide: A Century of History Preserved on
Postcards by J. L. Mashburn
Book Description:
The first-ever comprehensive Black postcard price guide. It values, lists and illustrates (with over 550 images) thousands of blacks on postcards from 1893 to 1980 and contains not only cards from America but also those from all countries in Europe. There are near complete checklists of hundreds of artists who painted beautiful children and finely attired adults, of cakewalks and minstrels and comical situations. Shown also are those that sterotype blacks and use demeaning racial slants and vulgar captions that would be unthinkable today. The Real Life chapters lists works of hundreds of postcard publishers who sent their personnel through the South to photograph black at work and play. Advertising, Real Photos (some extremely rare that include those that were politically motivated as well as some of the cruelties of early lynchings and riots), Sports, Entertainers and Topicals are also covered. Although it illustrates the unpleasant and difficult times, it also relates the great strides that the African American community made in their efforts to gain equality. This book is a must for all students of black history, postcard collectors, and collectors of black ephemera.
Collector's
Guide to Postcards by Jane Wood
Book Description:
Warm greetings, cheery thoughts, humorous displays and spectacular photographs can all be witnessed on postcards throughout the early decades! Subclassified and indexed (with a separate artist index), the value of a postcard collection is no longer a secret with this collector's manual. Over 3,000 postcards are priced and illustrated. 1997 Values
I recently purchased this book and am enjoying it very much. I was disappointed to find no text but the up side is that it is loaded with pictures of postcards and prices.
Book Description: The Encyclopedia of Antique Postcards covers more than 100
categories of postcards from the Golden Age (1898-1918),
including artists from Attwell to Wayne and topics from Aviation
to the Zodiac. Each category includes a brief history and
examples of typical postcards. More than 1100 postcards are
shown, ranging from the rare to the readily available.
Up-to-the-minute prices for each category as well as information
for preserving, restoring, framing, and selling postcards make
this the most comprehensive guide available. Book Description: A comprehensive fantasy postcard
price guide representing thousands of antique postcards, both
U.S. and foreign, issued from 1900 to 1960. Contains Fairies,
Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, Dressed Animals, Fantasy Nudes,
Death Fantasy, Santas, Mermaids, Teddy Bears, Wagner Opera
Figures, Halloween, Hold-To-Light, and hundreds of other
miscellaneous fantasy motifs. There are over 650 terrific Fantasy
images. Up-to-date values of all cards. Written and compiled by
collector-dealer J.L. Mashburn who has been active in the
postcard hobby for 36 years. Official
Identification and Price Guide to Postcards by Diane Allmen Synopsis: Here's a must-have guide for
anyone who can't bear to throw away a single postcard--including
the ones crowing, "Wish you were here." Postcards
celebrate their 100th anniversary in 1993, and have proven to be
valuable collectibles. This book contains all the information
anyone would need to become a knowledgeable collector. 8-page
color insert. Book Description: This is the 3rd edition of The
Postcard Price Guide, the most comprehensive postcard price guide
available. It lists thousands of prices representing millions of
cards, mixed equally between U.S. and Foreign, from 1893 through
1980. It contains 16 big chapters listing and illustrating
Artist-Signed (with many near complete checklists of their
works), Fantasy of all types, Color and Real Photo Nudes,
Greetings, Sets and Series, U.S. and Foreign Views, Real Photos,
Topicals of all kinds, Transportation of all types, Baseball,
etc., Roadside America, Expositions, Santas, Halloween, and much
more. It is a super book for both collectors and dealers
worldwide and contains 512 pages and over 635 beautiful images.
It was written and compiled by J.L. Mashburn, a
collector-dealer-historian with over 35 years experience in the
hobby. I purchased this book at an antique show and I have found it to be a great reference. I have started to go thru my collection and have found many of my postcards listed in this guide. I highly recommend this book.
Greetings
From Kentucky: A Postcard Tour, 1900-1950 by Wade Hall From
Abbeville to Zebulon: Early Postcard Views of Georgia by Gary
L. Doster A Review: A must-have for your Georgia history collection:
If you enjoy seeing Georgia in old photographs, you'll love this collection of postcard photos. Just about every place is
represented here, from the big cities to the tiniest hamlets. Buy it, you'll find yourself looking at it again and again, especially after
visiting some of the places depicted. -Marianna Ohio
in Historic Postcards: Self-Portrait of a State by H. Roger
Grant Railroad
Postcards in the Age of Steam by H. Roger Grant A peculiarly intimate
documentation of the nation's development and dependence upon
rail. A collection of cards depicting trains & rolling stock,
depots & other RR structures, the scenery, riders &
workers, and some heavy-handed humor. Cards are from the
fortuitous Vander Maas collection at U. of Iowa. Annotation
copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. 'Wish
You Were Here' : Arkansas Postcard Past 1900-1925 by Steven
Hanley & Ray Hanley Cleveland
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This Heaven?: A Self-Portrait of Iowa on Early Postcards (Bur Oak
Original) by Lyell D. Henry
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