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On Tue, 6 Apr 1993, mbanks@CHARLIE.USD.EDU (Margaret Banks) wrote:

> 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?

I have found no particular sudden movements in prices, but I would not be
surprised if dealers were caught with large inventories.  I did attend an
auction in England last year, in which a number of lots of postcards were
sold, and the proices all went for near or above the estimates, and were
far higher than I was prepared to bid.

I would like to know, speaking of prices, how realistic the "asking"
prices in Barr's seem to other collectors, whether they have actually
bought any that way, and how satisfied they were.  I am thinking of
selling off a few thousand nice early postcards (mostly published by R.
Tuck and Sons) and I wondered if that was a good way to do it.  Also, is
there resistance to dealing across the border to Canada, where I live?

Gary Davis

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