How to Fix Your eBay Saved Searches for Vintage Postcards
Ebay made some major changes to the Postcards category this month. Here I show some of the changes and how to update your saved searches to filter the correct state, country or category.
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J. Gilbert Smith Orchard, Los Altos, CA
Nice display at the Los Altos History Museum featuring fruit crate labels, vintage photos and a Linen-era postcard of the orchards in Santa Clara county.
"Rare" 1c George Washington & Benjamin Franklin Stamps on Postcards
We get a lot of folks that tell us they have a collection of postcards with "Rare Stamps". Usually they're referring to stamps like these: These are usually common Washington–Franklin Issues , issued from 1908–1922, Benjamin Franklin 1902 series issued from 1902-1917 and US Regular Issues issued from 1922-1931. Most of these stamps were printed in quantities that reach into the billions, so they are definitely not rare by any account. Just because something is 100+ years old, doesn't make it valuable. Scarcity and collector demand make things valuable. "But I just Googled these stamps and they're selling for $50,000!" you say? Perhaps you see something like this: First, it's doubtful that any of those stamps have actually sold for that much. You need to look at SOLD prices [ebay.com] , and even then many of those sales for common stamps may not actually be real. There may be a few of these there tha...