RPPC's--Looking for some expertise--

[frankbmd]

Maybe he means he that he had to get up “early” to stamp the photos himself.

[Leon]

I don't like them for being real photo. Too grainy and too black and white.
Here is a real photo postcard which was tinted and I thought kind of cool.

[seablaster]

Their overall appearance doesn't look at all consistent with the time period indicated. The fact that the erasures performed were so heavy as to remove the text present is a major red flag.

[Snapolit1]

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but the first thing that came to mind is that they are clearly not postcards.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by seablaster

Their overall appearance doesn't look at all consistent with the time period indicated. The fact that the erasures performed were so heavy as to remove the text present is a major red flag.

And the erasures are on the same spot on both cards. Like where a modern era zip code may have been. What an usual coincidence!

[cubman1941]

I am a long ways from an expert but I have a few photo postcards from the same time period. My thought was that a photo postcard was meant to be sent thus would have a place for a stamp/address. I may be mistaken. This is one I have from the same time period

[dougscats]

Thanks for the replies thus far.
Jim, the ones I have, the photos themselves do look consistent with yours, though mine have a name printed on them.

I can still return these,
but I'd just as soon keep them if they're real.

I've looked at them under a pocket microscope, and they are real photos, not prints.

For those of you interested in real photos, Here are links I found on Google:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_photo_postcard

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/postcards/real-photo

http://www.metropostcard.com/guiderealphoto.html

http://www.postcardvalues.com/realphotopostcards.html

Any other expertise about RPPC's in general, or in particular as to whether or not these are real, would be appreciated.

Let me add that there are two lines erased under the Photo Postcard stamp.
The first line says: S ... [Sports?] Cards B ? Collectors
The second line ends in a number--[I can discern ... 62 on three of them]--could be a zip code at the end of an address.

Here are the other two cards:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1929-Dale-B...vip=true&rt=nc

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1929-MAX-CA...vip=true&rt=nc

[h2oya311]

five-digit zipcodes didn't start until 1963.