Fifteen years ago Bill Schaal, a friend of John Lawson, gave him his first postcard. The card was of an old scene from Hampton, where Lawson grew up. At that moment, Lawson fell in love with ...

Since 1979, the Half Moon Postcard Club has held its annual show and sale as a fundraiser for local food pantries, charitable organizations and area historical societies. "We don't keep anything," ...

If you've ever come across an old postcard tucked away in a drawer or attic, you might be sitting on a surprising treasure.

Like other collectible ephemera, postcards that have been able to survive time can prove valuable. As a piece of history.

It started for Peter Keyes the same way it does for many postcard collectors: with just one._ The Newbury resident, a retired high school history and economics teacher from Massachusetts, was ...

From the early 1900s through the start of World War I, illustrated postcards became a primary means of sharing a holiday greeting or short correspondence. The 3 ½ x 5 ½ cards often bore friendly ...

Postcards are the third most-collected item in America, behind stamps (No. 1) and coins (No. 2), according to one expert. Baseball cards are falling out of favor because of questionable practices by ...

When Philadelphian John P. Charlton received the first copyright for a postcard in 1861–a small card mailed without an envelope that he sold to the H.L. Lipman company–he would have been surprised to ...

Robert Drew has never met a postcard he didn't like. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Perhaps that's why he owns more than 250,000 postcards, believed to be one of the largest private ...

When Karen Martin started collecting postcards, her mother was surprised that anyone would consider these cards — which sold for a penny or two in their heyday — worth saving, much less studying and ...

ONEIDA >> Hundreds of thousands of collectible post cards told the history of America in the 1900s at the spring show of the Central new York Postcard Club. The show, held at St. Paul's United ...