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Efficiently manage your inventory and process customer orders all from one unified dashboard. Award-winning support Connect with Shopify customer support over online chat, phone, or email. Learn more about selling postcards. Originally posted by Neil: Originally posted by levyj Originally posted by Skip: thanks for getting me curious about postcards, jeffrey! The pricing at WHCC is not 'cheap', but you do have to consider the fact that they don't charge you shipping.
A comparison: The 4x5. Not "cheap" but top quality. Much cheaper. For my purposes, just a show announcement, it might be worth trying, because these will just be sitting there for people to pick up in the lobby of the JCC where the show is and if they are nice enough, I could send some out. Of course, I need them pretty soon, and if they are slow like vista print, that would not do. PsPrint is a good one. We have done business with them at our gallery for six years now.
They do excellent work on good quality stock. Check their website for frequent 'deals. It is so clean, neat and well-maintained that it's something like, well, "a fine racing car establishment" as compared to "Joe's Fix-it-up Garage".
They have exacting rules for submitting copy and have someone to help with the process if you get stuck on anything. However, you may want to also look at 4by6. I used them awhile back to print out my business cards and I really liked the way they turned out. Good card stock. I also opted for round edges and each card was cut to perfection, unlike what you get at cheap print shops. Now I haven't tried their postcards but the sample pack they sent me looks very nice. As experienced valuers of collectables, our experts are often asked: How do I value my vintage and old postcards?
Unless you have years of experience, the short answer is with difficulty. Even then, assessing the value of a postcard collection can be a timely process. There is, of course, no reason why you cannot gain an impression of a collection's value - and this article aims to guide you through the steps you must take to do so.
Hopefully, it will help you to assess postcards in a more detailed manner. If you are planning to insure a collection, this postcard grading guide could help you gain a better understanding of the value that needs to be placed on it.
It should also allow you to gauge whether or not it is worthwhile taking your collection to be assessed by an independent expert or auction house, such as the services offered here at Warwick and Warwick.
If you do need assistance after reading this guide, please do not hesitate to contact our postcard valuation experts, who'll be happy to provide their assistance free of charge. Childhood Memories: A beautiful postcard by Scottish artist Jessie King - from a set of 6 depicting nursery rhymes in an art nouveau style.
The first thing to do is to determine the approximate age of the cards, as the vast majority of cards issued after the s have very little value. The postmarks on the reverse of the postally used cards are a reliable guide. Size also helps as cards larger than 5" x 3" were only popular in this country from the s onwards. You now need to look at the 5" x 3" cards produced in the s or earlier. However, it is important to realise that the value of these cards is not determined by their age and that 90 per cent or so of the average collection will have very little value.
So, which cards do have value? Topographical postcards and those depicting social history are by far the most important collecting area in the UK. Collectors like to assemble a record of a geographical area, whether it be where they live or where they were born.
They enjoy viewing street scenes showing how the street appeared decades earlier. They enjoy seeing cards of steam trains at the local station, trams on the streets, the local dairyman, the village inn, the postman delivering letters on his round and other such images of social history.
The more detailed or 'animated' a card is, the more a collector will want it for their collection and the more valuable it will be. Real photographic postcards: Printed direct from the negative and, in the 'Golden Age' of postcard production from to , these cards were often produced in very limited numbers by local photographers.
But that is honestly a terrible way of going about pricing. Look at your printing costs and image-licensing costs. Figure out minimum order vs your projected turnover of goods. Take into account the cost of the paper bag you'll invariably need to buy for your tourists. Factor that into your cost and do you want them printed as well? Look at your margin. Don't price yourself in a way that is detrimental to your overhead.
Sorry for the novel; I just really love museum postcards. And I used to work in a major museum bookshop.
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