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The Postcard Price Guide : A Comprehensive Reference
by J. L. Mashburn

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Paperback; Published by Colonial House; Publication date: February 1, 1997

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.

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Collector's Guide to Post Cards
by Jane Wood

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Paperback, 175 pages; Published by L-W Publishing & Book Sales; Publication date: February 1995

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

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Fantasy Postcards With Price Guide : A Comprehensive Reference
by J. L. Mashburn

AMAZON.COM PRICE: $19.96 ~ You Save $4.99 (20%) Of List Price!

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Paperback, 351 pages; Published by Colonial House; Publication date: July 1, 1996

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.

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Black Americana Postcard Price Guide : A Century of History Preserved on Postcards
by J. L. Mashburn

AMAZON.COM PRICE: $15.96 ~ You Save $3.99 (20%) Off List Price!

Paperback; Published by Colonial House; Publication date: September 1, 1995

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 perssonel 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.

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