Question on old postcard collecting

[Leon]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Hey Leon, the card was written by James E Beltzer, the owner/manager of the team. He co-owned the team with his brother Oren "Buck" Beltzer. They purchased the team from Guy Green around 1912. I got blown out of the water on that one. Not sure who your underbidder was, but it went for about $300 more than I bid, and $300 more than any Nebraska Indians postcard has ever sold for as far as I know.

I like it so I went deep as only a collector does LOL....
As I remember you told me this one was valued around 300 and I paid 600 for it. ..... And I would do it all over again too.

[egri]

I prefer writing on mine. A couple of years ago, I was looking for old postcards of New England, specifically Rhode Island, where I grew up. I ended up with about eight of them. I enjoyed getting to read the notes on the back and see how my hometown had changed over the years, though not always for the better. One of them, depicting a boarding school nearby, had a note from a student to his aunt, another showed my church but before its steeple was built and some nearby buildings were torn down, and another showed the town's waterfront before it was built up.

[honus94566]

There are some really cool old postcards out there. The written text on this says "Your picture is on the wall of the Vendenn Cigar Store." Which was a cigar store in or near Weiser, Idaho, where he was playing when he was discovered by scouts from the Senators and promptly whisked off to the big leagues. So somebody who knew him in Weiser mailed him this postcard, probably not long after he left. Walter Johnson kept it and it was eventually sent to auction by his family estate. Super cool piece of history.

[jbsports33]

I really look at it this way when collecting early postcards, does the card have good eye appeal. Writing does not bother me too much and having the stamp is fine which helps date the postcard as well. If there is writing all over front and back, then I start to say may not want that at all. There are several issues, some of the higher end baseball ones that are most likely better with no stamp or writing if you will be grading them. The 1925-29 Exhibit Postcards are a good example! Good luck collecting!

Jimmy