My Favorite Postcards

International Postcard Week
October 6 -12, 2019

150 Years of Postcards

Did you Know?
* A postcard is a piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope.
* Deltiology is the study and collecting of postcards.
*The first country-issued postcard was in 1869 by the Austrian post.
* In 2002, an 1840 postcard bearing a penny black stamp, the writer Theodore Hook sent to himself, sold for a record £ 31,750.
 - Information courtesy of Wikipedia.

The front of this postcard features Trinidad and Tobago's national flower, birds and instrument.

This postcard is from Nalini in Trinidad and Tobago

Postcrossing
Aland Islands
7-9 &10 June 2017

Greetings from Postcrossing meetup!

Illustration: Ammi Krogius
(The artist also designed the stamp and autographed the front of this postcard!)

This postcard was signed by 18 members of the meeting and has a Postcrossing stamp from Aland on the front and on the back of the card.

 This is the address part of the card ... the back reads:

Dear ACE:

We are happy to announce that arrangements have been made to view Walt Disney's hilarious and joyful film, "Mary Poppins" - starring Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews.

Cotton Warburton, who edited the picture says "It's the best to come from Disney!"

This enchanting film will be shown at Universal Studios' projection room # 9, promptly at 8:30, Friday, August 21.

This Card Will Admit you And Your Guest

This postal card was mailed in August 1964.  The Disney Movie was released on August 26, 1964.
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Here is an advertising postcard for Mary Poppins merchandise...
Walt Disney's
Mary Poppins

Walt Disney Classics Collection

This unused postcard from 2001 is advertising the porcelain figures of Marry Poppins, Bert, and the Penguins. 

This is an old Postal Card from Kansas that is postmarked on June 23, 1883.
It features the Liberty 1 cent stamp.

The note on the back says:
 "Sir, I hold a receipt against that note. Please state what remains due. yours, Slaten, Yates Center, Kansas, Woodson County"

I was sent this message about this card...

This "postal card" was used in 1883, but postal cards of this issue were first sold in late September of 1875. The Scott catalog number for this item is UX5 (assuming it is unwatermarked, else it is UX4 and worth hundreds of dollars!)

A postal card is one sold by the post office with the postage amount pre-printed. The double circle date stamp is all that was required for it to be entered into the mail. "Cancelling" the Liberty / One Cent is not necessary for postal cards like it is for stamped mail, but this was often done anyway as in the present example.

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I have one more postal card that is postmarked in 1883...

This postal card from Maine is postmarked in 1883.  The sender is asking for  an account to date and a few blank checks.  

The Four Things I need to Survive are...

Water
Air
Food
and Postcrossing Meet-ups!

Orlando, Florida, USA
postcrossing Meet-up
January 14, 2016 -
On the back of the postcard the sender writes that this was a typo and it was 2017.

This is postmarked with a planet Jupiter stamp in 2017 and has 10 signatures on the back from members of the meet-up.
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Postcrossing
Meetup - Orlando, Florida - January 14, 2017

Please note the postmark printed on the front of the postcard has the same date.  How clever!

This postcard is also postmarked in 2017 with the signatures of 10 members of Postcrossing from the meet-up. It has a Harry Potter stamp.

Information sheet issued by
Postcrossing Therapeutic Care

Avoid the
SIGNATURE HAND FRACTURE

One of the most common injuries at Postcrossing meetings is the injury to the signature hand.  Consider therefore: At meetings the signature hand is submitted to highest levels of strain!

Timely training is indispensable for risk-free signing!  Those in the know have already started.

In addition, the correct choice of auxiliary means contributes to the avoidance of early malfunction of the signature hand.

Professionals have been relying on a personalized signature stamp for a long time now.  It spares the signature hand and provides for an appealing and consistent image.

In order that the signing of thousands of postcards is no longer a risk to life and limb:
Use Signature Stamps!

This hilarious postcard is mailed in 2016 from the 7th International Postcrossing Meeting in Bielefeld, Germany.  The signatures of around 35 members is on the back of the card.

Bangladesh 

The sender wrote on the back that this is a rare postal card.  It was sent in an envelope in 2016, but the card is from 1972 and the postal mark is from December 12, 2012 --- 12-12-12. The man on the printed stamp is Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975) was the founding leader of Bangladesh. He served twice as the country's President.

Star Wars

Shown are movies:
IV: A New Hope (1977)
V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

This postcard is unused.

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Star Wars is an American epic space sci-fi franchise consisting of a film series created by George Lucas.

The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year intervals. Sixteen years after the release of the trilogy's final film, the first in a new prequel trilogy of films was released. The three prequel films were also released at three-year intervals, with the final film of that particular series released on May 19, 2005. In October 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion.

This is a reproduction postcard of the 'Rosie the Riveter' poster.

It is postmarked in 2014 from Germany.

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Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced ammunitions and war supplies while the men were serving as soldiers in the war.

In 1942, Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller was hired by the Westinghouse Company's War Production Coordinating Committee to create a series of posters for the war effort. One of these posters became the famous "We Can Do It!" image that you see above.

Institute of American Deltiology
300 West Main Avenue
Myerstown, Pennsylvania  17067

The Institute of American Deltiology was privately incorporated December 28, 1993 as a research center, library and gallery for the study, display and use of picture postcards as documents of American history, art, and culture.  Donald R. Brown, founder, is shown standing outside the Institute in 2003, sixty years after starting to collect on August 20, 1943.  A library of books, journals, club bulletins, news clippings and slides supports the Institute's postcard collections.  The IAD is located in a modified classical revival structure in the vernacular built in 1848-49 by Thomas Bassler, an entrepreneur along Pennsylvania's Union Canal.

Photo 2003 Anthony L. Lezzi

This postcard is unused, but is autographed, .....  Best Wishes, Donald R. Brown.

Why send a letter,
when a Postcard is much better.

Design: Brenda Perez

This unused postcard was bought  HERE  in 2015. 

International Postcard Week
October 4-10, 2015

Hello and Happy International Postcard Week 2015!

This postcard celebrates the re-establishing of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba.  For the first time since 1961, embassies have been established in each other's capital.

My husband and I had the great pleasure of visiting Cuba during these historic times.  The people there are beautiful on the outside and the inside.  In old Havana many of the buildings are being refurbished or rebuilt, and it looks amazing!

The picture on the front of this postcard was done by the renowned artist Rick Geary and symbolizes the renewed bridge between these two countries which are only 90 miles apart.
Happy Collecting,
Brenda

This postcard is postmarked on October, 5th, 2015.

Join the Denver Postcard Club

National Postcard Week
May 4-10, 2014

Deltiology is the collection and study of picture postcards.  To learn more about postcard collecting, attend a local postcard show and see the Denver Postcard Club's Facebook Page for club meeting and event details.

This art for this postcard was done by Rick Geary and is a limited edition of 500.

Although it was never mailed there is writing on the back:
Hi Brenda
This is probably my favorite Denver PC Club Card so far! Rick Geary drew himself in this one!
All the best!
Dede Horan

Koln
14 - 3 - 2015
Postcrossing Meeting
Cologne

This postcard is signed by many  people from the meet-up.  The sender (Isa) knows I am not a fan of stickers on postcards.  They turn the paper brown over time and ruin the cards.  So she put a pull tab sticky note on the back saying "Bitte Keine Sticker"  (Please, no stickers).  The only thing is, she forgot to remove it before she sent it.  It made it all the way to the states with the sticky still on it!

Isa saw a scan of the back and said that the sticky note actually was long and covered up the address.  So someone in the post office must have cut the bottom off but put the words part of the sticky back on the card.  How wonderful that they did not just throw the whole note away!

Indonesia
Mount Batok, Bromo and Semeru from Pananjakan. East Java

Photo: Agus Leonardus

This postcard is postmarked in 2014 from Indonesia.

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Mount Batok is the only peak that is no longer an active volcano.

Mount Bromo is an active volcano and part of the Tengger massif, in East Java, Indonesia. At 2,329 metres (7,641 ft) it is not the highest peak of the massif, but is the most well known. The volcano belongs to the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park.

Mount Semeru also known as Mahameru ("Great Mountain"), is one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes.

Happy Holidays

Ana Campos and Paulo Magalhaes (creators of Postcrossing.com) are featured in this hand-made Christmas postcard.  The card has the words Happy Holidays and a silver bulb.  When you scratched the silver, it revealed the photos!

This very creative postcard was mailed from Germany in 2013.