I started collecting postcards when I was in my mid-twenties. My girlfriends mother was a collector and she got me "hooked" I joined the **Angels Flight Postcard Club and the Santa Monica Postcard Club in 1976 and started going to all of the postcard shows and estate sales I could find! I've always loved history and old photographs, so postcards were a natural fit.
I also collect modern cards. Not chromes necessarily (although I do have a few), but contemporary art and advertising cards. I will share those here also.
Postcards that were issued in a series has become an "obsession" with me. If I find a card that I like and realize that it is just one in a series, I am dogged in my pursuit of the rest of them. I will create "pages" for these as opposed to posting them individually.
I am looking forward to sharing the cards I love and getting feedback from others who love them as well. In addition to posting cards, I will have some pages devoted to parts of my collection that I find interesting. I will change them up once in a while to keep things "moving".
I will forgo any pages explaining deltiology, or the like. It's all been done before and certainly better than I could do. I may share a link now and then to something of interest, but I'm not the teacher. I am merely the student and this is my "show-and-tell".
I hope you enjoy!
-Steve Taylor
**I was fortunate enough to have
the opportunity to meet Werner von Boltenstern (NOT the Nazi
general!) who was also a member of the postcard clubs I joined. He was in his early 70's, grossly
overweight and a master at spinning a tale (in a
thick German accent). He worked for several years as a
photographer, which brought him in contact with the field of postcards. He
emigrated to the United States in
1947, settling in Los Angeles where
he married and raised a family. Werner had amassed a huge personal collection. Sadly, he passed away in 1978. But here's the cool part...He donated his entire collection to Loyola Marymount
University in Los Angeles . The Werner von Boltenstern
postcard collection is one of the largest publicly-accessible collections in
the United States .
It contains over a million postcards from around the world, dating
from the beginnings of postcard production in the late 19th century, and
extending to the present
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