Post Cards From the Farm

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March 2002
Jim Ward 
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Unlike post cards, which were uniformly 3-1/2 by 5 inches in size, trade cards ran the gamut from 2-by-3-inch salesmen's business cards to 9-by-12-inch window advertisement cards used by merchants in hardware and general stores.

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Generally, though, the little trade cards you're most likely to find in old books and even in the family Bible are about 3 by 4 inches in size. They're usually printed on thin paper stock far more delicate than post cards and requiring very careful handling and storage. A safe and easy way to store old post cards of all types is in protective pages in an ordinary three-ring album. Besides the attic, public shows hosted by post card clubs and dealers are the next best places to find these little gems today. Such events occur regularly in major U.S. cities. Old post cards also can be found for sale on the Internet. Just log in the keywords 'post card,' 'postcard' or 'trade cards,' or go to an auction site. FC

Jim Ward edits the monthly bulletin of the Lancaster County (PA) Postcard Club and publishes The Journal of The Postcard History Society, issued quarterly. Contact him at 1795 Kleinfeltersville Rd., Stevens, PA 17578; (717) 721-9273; e-mail: midcreed@ptd.net.



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