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I collect postcards depicting musical instruments, both real photo and
fanciful (as on greeting cards).  Am particularly interested in locating
cards advertising or endorsing the C. G. Conn Musical Instrument Company 
of Elkhart, Indiana, and similar cards advertising/endorsing other musical
instrument manufacturers.  Also interested in trade cards, catalogs, old 
periodicals, price lists, and related paper ephemera related to Conn and 
other musical instrument manufacturers.

Would be interested to hear from other deltiologists with similar interests.

In the hopes of starting a thread on this new group, I wonder how others
view the market for postcards in various parts of the country.  Has it 
"bottomed out" or is it on the rise in your area?  It seems that in South
Dakota and Nebraska, at any rate, that prices remain consistent, with no 
great deviation from the norm at this time.  However, I have overheard
dealers from various parts of the country comment about rising and falling
prices.  What is your experience?

Margaret Banks
Curator of Musical Instruments
Shrine to Music Museum & Center for Study of the History of Musical 
Instruments
University of South Dakota
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD  57069

fax:  605-677-5073
email:  mbanks@charlie.usd.edu