Just remember to never use a card for typesetting.....

[Brian Van Horn]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1933-Goudy-B...item2ed6af799f

[yanksfan09]

I was at an antique show a few weeks ago. One guy had a stack of 1930's/40's exhibits and some other stuff like national chicle cards. I was slightly interested in a few and asked how much they were since I didn't see a price. He said the prices were on the backs. I flipped them over and he wrote the prices on the backs of all of them in pencil. I couldn't believe anyone would do that. The prices were all high without any writing I thought so with the writing the prices were terrible so I doubt it was too long ago that he thought of that genius pricing technique.

[Brian Van Horn]

Originally Posted by yanksfan09

I was at an antique show a few weeks ago. One guy had a stack of 1930's/40's exhibits and some other stuff like national chicle cards. I was slightly interested in a few and asked how much they were since I didn't see a price. He said the prices were on the backs. I flipped them over and he wrote the prices on the backs of all of them in pencil. I couldn't believe anyone would do that. The prices were all high without any writing I thought so with the writing the prices were terrible so I doubt it was too long ago that he thought of that genius pricing technique.

Cringe.

[darwinbulldog]

Did he say they were fake?

[Brian Van Horn]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

Did he say they were fake?

Touche.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by yanksfan09

I flipped them over and he wrote the prices on the backs of all of them in pencil.

This is Standard Operating Procedure for postcard dealers. But many of them were done 20 years ago. Many good postcards have had price written on them.

[yanksfan09]

He was a postcard dealer.

[Brian Van Horn]

OK. We've got postcard dealer and not fake. No shot at Erick, the latter is a reference to another post.

[mrmopar]

I remember buying 50s commons and minor star cards in the 80s with the prices on the pack in pencil. i was a kid and these were not expensive cards, but it seems that it was not uncommon in some circles. They weren't worth nearly the money they would be today then either, so most people probably didn't sweat it too much.

[swarmee]

I was in an antique mall last month where a booth had some baseball cards priced with a sticker directly on the card. Stuff like 1990 Pro Set minor stars for $2.50 each. Needless to say, even if they were worth that much, they wouldn't be with adhesive residue. Put them in a sleeve!