kasue
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posted on July 10, 2005 08:14:38 AM new
I sometimes buy a bunch of postcards just to get what I want and then sell the rest. I run across a few real photo postcards occasionally and notice that they tend to sell higher. Someone just emailed me about one that is listed and asked for the number that is on the front. Why would they need that?
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Roadsmith
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posted on July 10, 2005 08:52:11 AM new
I buy postcards of our mountain area for our local museum. I have our town's name on Search, e-mail the day's batch of new listings to our curator, and she tells me what she wants me to bid on. There was a local renowned photographer here who took photos of all sorts of places in Southern California. We try to buy one of everything he produced in local postcards as well as real photo postcards of more far-ranging areas. Sometimes his name is indecipherable on the bottom of the card but often the number is clearer.
The real photo cards are often much more wonderful for showing actual streets and houses or unusual scenes.
I suppose there are those who are so fanatic about a certain photographer that they keep track of the numbers so they don't buy duplicates.
I was astounded when selling a few old family postcards when I saw the difference between the real photo cards high bids and those for other cards.
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sthoemke
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posted on July 10, 2005 08:59:12 AM new
A number may indicate that the postcard is part of a series.
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vintagepostcardsdotorg
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posted on July 10, 2005 09:21:27 AM new
kasue,
yes, it's to prevent duplicates and sometimes to determine the year. two of the popular photographers who used a numbering/cataloging system on their images were Frasher, a California photographer, and Cline of Chattanooga, TN. there were others who used a numbering system, but those two in particular spring to mind.
http://stores.ebay.com/postcardspostcards?refid=postcardspostcards
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neglus
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posted on July 10, 2005 09:30:41 AM new
Ellis from Washington state also used numbers and i have had buyers ask for those numbers when they aren't clear on the scan.
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards
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kasue
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posted on July 10, 2005 10:48:52 AM new
This particular card shows a town from Eastern Iowa. The person might just be putting together a group of pictures from that area then. I guess I wondered if they could pull a good enough copy from their computer screen to make copies from that?
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vintagepostcardsdotorg
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posted on July 10, 2005 11:05:24 AM new
does the card say L. L. Cook on the back? that was a wisconsin firm that published a lot of midwestern views. at any rate, it was some photographer who did use a numbering system. numbering doesn't have much to do with the value of a card...and yes, they can save your image if they want to - if that's part of what you're asking. but would it be a high-resolution image that they could use in a book or something? nope. i get a fair number of requests for high-resolution scans of my cards. but i'm not in the print business and not interested in helping someone else sell prints. if my buyers want the image, they can buy the actual card, and then it's theirs to do with as they wish.
http://stores.ebay.com/postcardspostcards?refid=postcardspostcards
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kasue
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posted on July 10, 2005 11:14:10 AM new
Would taking a picture of my postcard while it is on Ebay, not be high resolution quality enough to use for making copies? I don't think my pictures are all that great of my cards, because I could never get my cropping program for the scanner figured out. I just take digital pictures of the cards and then post them.
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neglus
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posted on July 10, 2005 01:34:04 PM new
I scan at a fairly high resolution. I had a buyer request a real "high resolution" scan (had to send it to her on CD the file size was HUMONGOUS) and gave me instructions on scanner settings. She lost the postcard auction but the buyer gave permission for me to send her the scan (she paid for it). I don't think the images we put on ebay are good enough to make a serious print. I have had buyers request that I take my images down after sale to prevent copying.
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards
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vintagepostcardsdotorg
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posted on July 10, 2005 02:11:07 PM new
no, the scans we put on ebay aren't good enough for print or book purposes. i thought this and it was confirmed by a friend last year. i buy some cards for my own collection and he wanted to use some of the images in educational books, magazine articles and slide shows. but my husband always gets a credit line in any publication, as being "from the collection of." we send him cards occasionally and he does high-res scans for his own purposes and returns the cards and a cd with hi-res scans on it. we actually have a written "non-compete" type of agreement, that he isn't allowed to make prints of the cards for resale. he doesn't give a hoot about postcards per se, just want the scans.
http://stores.ebay.com/postcardspostcards?refid=postcardspostcards
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