Children's Greeting Cards: Collecting Vintage (Identification & Values (Collector Books)) [Paperback]

Linda McPherson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2005 | Series: Identification & Values (Collector Books)

This book will take you on a trip down memory lane. Remember those cards your mother saved when you were born? Collecting Vintage Childrens Greeting Cards begins with those first baby cards and takes you from first birthdays to the teenage years. There are chapters on Christmas with Santa, Frosty, and Rudolph. Youll find cartoon characters, cowboys & Indians, dogs, cats, wild animals, and fairy tale and nursery rhyme cards, including boxed sets. There are cards by artists Charlot Byj, Marjorie Cooper, Angela, Mabel Lucie Attwell, and others. The book covers cards from the 1930s through the 1960s, with the main focus on the 40s and 50s. Included for each card is information on size, date, series, name of card, and current collector value. There are tips on where to find cards, what to look for, and how to care for your collection.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Collector Books (September 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574324659
• ISBN-13: 978-1574324655
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,449,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Absolutely Lovely Book, May 24, 2009

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S. Lake "Amy & Steve" (Western New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Children's Greeting Cards: Collecting Vintage (Identification & Values (Collector Books)) (Paperback)

I bought this book after I accidentally threw

away the last valentine card my late father gave

me in 1967,I was absolutely heartbroken.Since I

would probably never be able to ever find that

card ever again I decided to purchase this

book as the same artist who designed my old card

was featured in it.It truly is a lovely book, the

artists really took great care in designing greeting

cards back then (1930s-60s), which you can't say for

the cards of today. :(

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You probably received several of these, January 7, 2010

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Robin Benson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Children's Greeting Cards: Collecting Vintage (Identification & Values (Collector Books)) (Paperback)

I don't collect these cards but I do collect books about popular visual culture and for my interest Linda McPherson's title is a treat. Each page has been four and eight cards (though mostly four) so I guess there might be about a thousand throughout the book. I think the Contents with eighteen sections probably covers every type of greeting for children. What's left out is most likely in Miscellaneous with six sections including four cards with a real button on the front, ten cut to irregular shapes, five that had playable records.

The Holiday Season provides a rich selection with thirty-four Santa cards, nineteen with Frosty the Snowman, seventeen for Rudolph and thirty-five general Christmas and snow themes. The chapter on Characters shows that the card companies don't miss a trick with Popeye, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Dagwood and a fascinating thirteen Campbell's Soup kids on can-shaped cards. Though they are not cards in the conventional sense the Hallmark Dolls from the Land of Make Believe are pure enchantment and the most valuable in the book ($8 to $45 each)

I was a bit disappointed that there isn't a bit more about the leading card companies from past decades, their most popular greeting cards for children, print runs and more. The actual Introduction is on two pages and is a rather generalized overview of card collecting. The book's design and printing is fine and so much better than similar collector books put out by Schiffer. Each card is captioned with a date, size, sometimes the publisher and finally the rough price variation.

Linda McPherson has edited a book mainly for collectors but I think its good enough to be enjoyed by anyone who wants to see some lovely examples of greeting card nostalgia and you might have the thrill of seeing a card that was sent to you back then.

***SEE SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars coulda' done this myself, November 13, 2009

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Lynne Dill "Lynnesturn" (Lewis Center, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Children's Greeting Cards: Collecting Vintage (Identification & Values (Collector Books)) (Paperback)

It's not that this is an unattractive book - if you like old greeting cards the photos are nicely done but really that's all. Anyone with much of a collection could have come up with a similar set of cards and virtually all of them are very similarly valued. It was really a case of "here are some pretty cards - you probably have lots like these - they're pretty much worth the same thing whatever you have..."