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Collector's Guide to Post Cards

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The title "Collector's Guide..." led me to believe that there would be informational text about dating, printing techniques, and other descriptive information about post cards. The book is entirely illustrations of post cards in various categories and their prices...fine for long-time collectors, but useless for someone seeking historical information.

This reference book for postcard collectors is entirely given over to images of the cards themselves, with no history, grading guide, or other information. That being said, it has thousands of photos of various kinds of postcards, well organized by subject (but I wish the reproduction were clearer). The prices are dated, and do not reflect the impact that Ebay, Amazon, and other online auction houses have had on postcard availability. All in all it's a nice pictorial reference, but not a must-have.

Horrible prints, can hardly see details, blury pictures in black and white (a very few colored). Set up is okay, but again, pictures are horrible and crammed into the page. A waste of money!

Absolutely useless. Waste of money. Not worthy of its description. This is NOT A REFERENCE BOOK. This is a (poor) photographic journal of a collection, with speculative values based purely on opinion.

For one thing, the index lists almost 200 artists, yet Schmucker is not on the list!(a few of his cards are shown, with no credit, under "Winsch"). Not a bad overview of catagories and artist examples. Not much (if any) post WWI is shown. Only 16 pages are in color. Probably a good intro. for people looking for a catagory to collect.

Collectors Guide To Post Cards/ Jane Wood.

The postcards in this book are hard to see as they are not in color and instead are in shades of gray. I'm very disappointed and would not have purchased this book if I had seen it in a store.