It started for Peter Keyes the same way it does for many postcard collectors: with just one._ The Newbury resident, a retired high school history and economics teacher from Massachusetts, was ...

Robert Drew has never met a postcard he didn't like. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Perhaps that's why he owns more than 250,000 postcards, believed to be one of the largest private ...

Joe Vella of Decatur has spent a lifetime collecting postcards and has perhaps the world’s most extensive collection. His collection of more than 52,000 postcards dwarfs the Guinness World Record ...

NEW YORK — Marilyn Stern held out a black-and-white postcard of a baby panda from 1948. “What’s interesting to me is that it says, ‘Most valuable captive animal,'” said Stern, one of a few dozen ...

The collection consists of seven series, the largest, Series 1, being the postcards. The largest categories in this series are the geographic, both United States and foreign, and greeting cards. The ...

Since 1979, the Half Moon Postcard Club has held its annual show and sale as a fundraiser for local food pantries, charitable organizations and area historical societies. "We don't keep anything," ...

When was the last time you sent or received a postcard? Long before texts, email, faxes, telexes and even the telephone, postcards were how we stayed in touch. Today postcards are mostly bought as ...

When Karen Martin started collecting postcards, her mother was surprised that anyone would consider these cards — which sold for a penny or two in their heyday — worth saving, much less studying and ...

We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at dchval@juno.com or call Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. Jerry Smith missed Expo ’74 by four years. He and his wife moved to Spokane ...

Postcard collector Clarissa Ferraris in her Columbia, Md., home office with some of her collection. She's been collecting postcards since she was 13 and recently helped create an online database of ...

NORTH ST PAUL, Minnesota — Inside the 7th Avenue Antique Mall in downtown North St. Paul, the past is preserved. "I'm a nostalgic old fool, I suppose," said Jerry Peterson, who has owned the shop ...