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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: September 24, 2020
Presenter: Mary L. Martin
Host: Jill Erickson
Topic: A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards, by Q. David Bowers & Mary L. Martin
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Available at Falmouth Public Library under 383.122 BOW
Also mentioned:
o Cape Cod Memories: An Illustrated History in Postcards, by Karen
Choppa & Mary L. Martin, available in the FPL Reference Department
under REF LocHist 974.492 CHO, as well as other CLAMS locations
o The Postcards of Alphonse Mucha, by Q. David Bowers & Mary L.
Martin
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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[Music]
I do have a bit of an introduction here
as to how
I came sitting here in Falmouth
Massachusetts
came to find Mary Martin who's joined
us
has
delightfully joined us this morning um I
I’m so pleased that she's been able to
we've had two other talks this week um
had based on postcards but also
Falmouth
history and
this today we're really looking at
collecting postcards and what that means
but let me just give you a little bit of
background as where
this is all started as we have lots of
new people here
this morning um Postcards from
#postcardsfromfalmouth
Falmouth
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was a special is a special local history
project of the Falmouth Public Library
that is based upon our historical
postcard collection
of noted buildings landmarks and
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locations within the town of Falmouth
the library is working on creating an
oral history
based upon upon the two postcard
collections
generously given to the library by Anita
Gunning
and Robert C. Hunt Jr Postcards from
Falmouth is made possible through a
Library Services
and Technology Act grant which is
administered through the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners
this series of talks is also made
possible thanks to the help of the
Falmouth Public Library Trustees
and FCTV and I can't thank Andrew
enough for
all his help this week
um and we hope by the end of this series
that those of you listening will be
inspired to look at our postcard
collections
and share your memories of Falmouth
now
I know a lot of you don't have
necessarily memories of Falmouth but
we're
making one for you right
now and um I want you to know
how I actually got to Mary because
we were as you know shut down as
many of
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you know we were shut down midMarch
so our building has been closed although
the library we say
has been open because we've been doing
answering phone calls and
doing programs and um
emails and keeping track of Twitter and
Facebook etc.
but what I discovered in May
back in May was this issue of
Antique Trader and on the cover you
will
see this cover story was Postcard
Passion
Enjoying A Picturesque View and
I’m sorry my phone is ringing
one moment
we've done this for this is the third
one first phone call
um in any case I discovered this
Antique Trader Postcard uh Passion
article
and within it it talked about the fact
that one of the articles in here first
appeared in
metro news a bulletin of the
Metropolitan Postcard Club of New
York
City
which I had never heard of before and
being a reference librarian I’m like
well
I need to check on this Metropolitan
Postcard Club
of New York City so I found their web
page which was simple enough to do
and learned a little bit more about the
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#metropolitanpostcardclub
#newyorkcity
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Metropolitan Postcard Club of New
York
City
which was formerly called the
Metropolitan Postcard Collectors Club
and is the oldest continually
continuously run postcard club
in the United States membership is made
up of both collectors and dealers of
postcards from coast to coast
and many from foreign countries as well
um and they've been facilitating the
exchange of postcards since its founding
in 1946
#1946
so I then saw that they had a president
so I contacted their president
Rod Rod Kennedy who was very
#roderickkennedy
gracious
and
very helpful and put me in connection
with our speaker today Mary L. Martin
and Mary L. Martin has operated Mary
#marylmartinltd
L. Martin Limited for many years
continuing the worldwide postcard
business founded by her parents
in the 1960s she's the author of several
books
and is considered a leading expert on
postcards
their history rarity and value she
conducts several postcard conventions
each year in New York City
and other locations from Perryville
Maryland she sells postcards and
supplies
by mail and in Havre de Grace Maryland
she and her staff have a retail outlet
her
inventory of collectible cards in all
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categories
is among the world's largest and her
most
recent book which is going to share
some
information with us about today
is a guidebook of collectible postcards
so thank you so much Mary for joining
us
and I will
give the Zoom talk over to you thank
you
Jill this is really fun this is my first
Zoom talk although I love
to talk about my postcard passion this
first time I’ve had a chance to do it
by Zoom so I’ll start with just a teeny
bit of history
about how my parents got started in the
postcard business my dad was a stamp
and
coin collector
and when he met my mother they would
travel together to shows
and my mother wasn't interested in
stamp and coin
she bought those cards that were usually
not too important on the edge of a table
at a stamp show and she really it cost
maybe
five cents to ten cents and she would
just really pick out
what she thought was pretty she traveled
around this with my dad for a few years
and so after a while she got quite a
large collection and she decided to do
a mail auction and it was
mail auction was kind of normal in the
60s stamp and coin dealers were doing it
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but my mom decided to do it I spent my
childhood watching her
type up auctions looking at every single
postcard and writing a description put
it in the mail
I think her first auction she made 35
dollars and she was ecstatic
so this was in the 60s after I was born
she really
started to travel a lot more and do
shows
really the only club or show that was
really well established was the
Metropolitan Postcard Club
and they had a show and actually um
Leah
who's joined the call today
ran the show and I was young I
remember
my first show was
at the Union Hall in in Manhattan and
going in and fascinated I saw Leah
running the show and
I was just so impressed and so
fascinated here I was in New York City
and
all of these collectors and and how to
think I get to help the club around
their show it's it's fun
it's exciting and it's been a really
wonderful way to spend my life my
my parents my whole life has been
postcards
my father quit is his job as lawyer in
the 70s to help my mom
run the business it started in our
garage
in the 70s it moved in the 80s to our
basement
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in the 90s my dad purchased
a car dealership it used to be a Ford
car dealership it was probably
ten thousand square feet which we
opened and filled with postcards
millions of postcards now
I will say my dad was the accumulator
the buyer and my mom
was more of the detailers very organized
my mom was German
everything was completely organized
and
cataloged perfectly
I take after my dad a little bit more
not as organized
but I pretty much know where
everything
is in our warehouse
so if you ask me for a specific town or
subject
we have it arranged like that so our
postcards if you would come into
our warehouse are very long aisles
maybe 15 feet high and
we have them by states country
within the states we have them by towns
and then we have
subjects from anything from
automobiles
astronomy
to zoos everything in between
because everything that ever
was talked about was put on a postcard
every subject matter
so I guess in the early 2000s when my
mom died I
I started running the business full-time
although my dad was still traveling and
doing shows and
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my son after college joined me in um
running the business and
I probably did maybe 35 to 40
coffee top books on different towns
throughout the United States so I would
co-author them with people that actually
lived in the towns
um I it on Cape Cod I did one in
Houston
Texas
all over the United States but I would
partner with
maybe a local historian to do the book
so I would provide a lot of images
and they would provide a lot of text for
the books so I did a lot of those
and um then I guess a good friend of my
parents in 2012
wanted to redo a book that him and my
mom had done on Alphonse Mucha
postcards
and my mother started collecting Mucha
postcards in the 70s
um she would go to Paris and buy these
cards now
again this I didn't even know anybody
that had been to Europe
let alone my mom was going there to
buy
postcards and
you know this was a huge deal in our
family and she brought back those cards
that we had never seen
before by beautiful French artists and
French topics and subjects and so she
her love was Alphonse Mucha so she
bought
all the Mucha cards that she could find
and probably in I guess 1979
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David Bowers nudged her to do a book
on
it because
the cards were lovely but you they
weren't
it was hard to uh put them in categories
and auction houses
had trouble with how to describe them
so
my mom
and Dave assigned numbers to every
Mucha
card that they found
and to this day those numbers are still
used in auction houses when they're
selling the cards
and um I was able to redo the book
and with Dave a few years ago and we
did
it in color
and we did it for about you know one
percent of the price that it caused them
to do it in black and white
but my mom put a lot of effort to it you
know the time Dave lived
he is a celebrity among coin dealers and
he lived in Beverly Hills and
I remember these packages from FedEx
coming every day
from the documents because there was
no
computer then so
Dave would write the documents FedEx
would deliver the packages from
Beverly
Hills
my mom would you know write back
and I
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The Postcards of Alphonse Mucha, by Q.
David Bowers & Mary L. Martin
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remember her doing the book and how
entailed everything was all the details
so I think about that often when I talk
to Dave because
doing the book this time was quite
different
you know without Dave I I probably if I
wasn't nudged by him
to do it I probably would have had a
hard time taking on the project because
I’m not as organized as him he's a great
writer so he was
you know postcards putting postcards
in an encyclopedia of collecting is
difficult
it's much easier for numismatics coin
dealers or
stamp dealers to document things
because
we have lists of things that were
produced published
postcards we don't because you didn't
have to be a publishing company to put
out a postcard
um you could just take your own
photograph and put it on a postcard
so every month of my life still I see
postcards on subjects that
I never knew existed so when Dave said
he wanted to do
a book with Whitman to talk about
the whole hobby I didn't know where to
begin but
he was he put it into
to subject matters that that made it
work you know he
he started with the timeline and talking
about the very earliest postcards that
were
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commercially produced um during the
Columbian
Exposition and then we dated them all
the way to
current postcards and so
um within that he talks about the values
and
how to build a collection he talks about
purchase like where to go with like
clubs and online
and different ways to build and obtain
your collection
then within the book he also has
checklists for
different artists and publishers
obviously we we couldn't even attempt
to
touch on
smallest amount but he gave an idea we
thought it'd be a good idea to show
people
how to put a checklist together because
people do checklist now every day in
fact I put my own checklist together on
subject so
you know that was an important way to
do
it and then he broke the you know we
thought we
break it into a subject so social
history
real photography holidays artists
advertising
and within those chapters we
um showed illustrations and we gave an
idea
on how to price the cards now obviously
books change prices change but we
thought it would still be a good guide
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so even in 10 years
you'll say okay well this card was
25 in 2020
and you know you can relate it to what
the cards will be in the future but
we talked about we both thought talked
about condition
pricing and
we put in maybe 24 chapters
with over 400 pages and 1500
illustrations
into the book to give people an idea and
Dave
um being a prolific writer I mean and
he's done so many books
like I said he's a celebrity in the coin
world so it was a true honor to have him
co-author the book and then Leonard
#leonardlauder
Lauder the owner of Estée Lauder who
#esteelauder
is
a club member
his whole life of practically the Metro
Club
he did the forward for the book which
again was a true honor he was
friends with my parents and a friend of
Dave so
it's a true honor to have him write in
the book and
and talk about his a little bit about
his collecting
and about his collection in the Boston
#museumoffineartsboston
Museum of Arts and so
we thought that we did the best we could
with the resources of Whitman
Publishing
to bring a full guide to in color
and cover every cover every aspect of
the hobby
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and we talk a little bit about
what makes the postcards
collectible but really the
that is in the eyes of the beholder with
your collection so people
always ask me what is
the most expensive card you ever saw
well
actually the most expensive card I ever
saw
was in the charity to Rosie O’Donnell
for
fifty thousand dollars that
she donated the money to someone that
had cancer
but in private real life the most
expensive
card I ever sold was a Mucha card
of the Waverley Cycle postcard and it
was
fourteen
thousand dollars and a little over
fourteen thousand dollars
and I have a picture of it I hope people
can see
it okay not too much of a glare it's
this one right here
it's advertising a postcard
and um it's very rare
there's only maybe a dozen known
and that Dave and my mom had seen
before
that's the most expensive postcard I’ve
ever sold but the majority of postcards
so between two dollars to 30
so you can obtain a nice collection
really for some cards for the price of a
Hallmark card nowadays
and certainly there's rare cards that
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sound to the hundreds or thousands of
dollars
but I would say a majority of people
that come to shows are coming to my
store to purchase cards really are in
that ballpark of
ten dollars or fifteen dollars and
no matter what your subject matters you
don't have to be a postcard collector
to collect postcards because like stamps
and coins
it's hard for somebody to show you a
stamp and you fall in love with it if
you're not a stamp collector but
I can show people postcards and they
say oh I don't collect postcards but
I’ll show them postcards of perhaps
their Dalmatian that they have or
maybe they're a golf player and I show
them famous golf courses
and then instantly they I’ll decide to
start building a small collection
or they'll start collecting their town
where their
mother went to church and then after
they found everything they'll buy
everything in the county
but I I would say postcards are a pretty
affordable hobby
and you know to hold something in your
hand
over 100 years old that traveled across
the country
for one penny it's pretty amazing
and and it's so affordable you have to
remember
and you know many of you I’m sure you
know this from your talks earlier this
week
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when people lived on a ranch in
Montana
in 1915
they couldn't really turn on the
television
to get current events of something that
was happening in New York City
so when that penny postcard came to
their door
it was it was a big deal I mean it was
it was a big deal they you know they put
it on their coffee table
and a beautiful album of postcards and
they would show it off and
this was a way they could really see a
current picture
of what was going on in small town
America
or even Europe during the war I mean so
to own a piece of history in your hands
pretty affordable I think it's the best
hobby in the world and not everything
is rare that is the most beautiful
I mean you know I showed you a
postcard of one that I sold for fourteen
thousand dollars
but this is a Mucha card that isn't even
that attractive
but it was advertising and it was it's
so unique that
that card itself is worth a few thousand
dollars because
nobody's really seen it it was just a
small advertising card that
Mucha didn't really wasn't massproduced
so
just because uh something is beautiful
or it doesn't make necessarily mean it's
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the rarest
um I learn a lot about
postcards mostly from besides my
parents
are my clients because my clients are
authorities in their subjects so whether
they're collecting a subject like
Titanic
or if they're collecting Cape Cod
railway I mean I certainly know what a
rare
railroad card is or a rare Titanic but
I learned the details and I learned
the history of almost every subject from
my clients
so they're really my teachers and I
tried to put
that into the book all the details that
I’ve learned through
through different things and and my
clients being the teachers of
their subjects because they are
authorities in their subjects whether
it's
boxing or Santa collecting or
advertising so it you know the book
reflects a lot of a different
type of novelty cards and we try to show
um you know different things like you
know this would be
a real hair postcard so it's actually a
novelty with
real hair attached to it and we show um
rare photography postcards in the book
with aviation
railroads um we try to
show uh you know many subject
matter social history so we touch upon
social history so
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Titanic parades
suffragette movements holidays
um big category we talk about all the
different artists
in the book we talk about different
publishers and we
we show beautiful images of rare cards
and we do touch on things that aren't as
rare
that are beautiful and happen my
favorite
topic is the patriotic holidays um I
like it because
you don't see patriotic holidays
any longer so patriotic things social
history
that is probably what I collect the most
I would say
but I also collect anything that I like
my mom that I
think is unique and beautiful
we talk about uh different types of
cards you know some cards were sent in
installment sets
so they were you know the group will
make up an image
and then we talk about um
advertising early advertising on
postcards
which is um very collectible and
and beautiful and colorful and
um the book is
probably the one of the
best overall looks of the hobby
that we could put into that we could put
into 400 pages
so it's 400 pages 15 those 100
illustrations 22 chapters
of um you know everything that
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my life that I could figure about
talking about
and everything of days my dog is like
running around so I’m sorry if you see a
distraction in the back
but I think you know I I guess the best
way for me to
to probably talk about the book is
maybe people asking me questions
because
I think that you know I could
that way I can really tell people
exactly what they want to know so I
don't know Jill if you want to open it
up to
um to questions with people or
you know if you would like to see more
of the book or this is what the book
looks like
it is a soft cover um we went back and
forth on
whether or not to do soft or hard but we
wanted to keep it affordable at 39
and you know not make it an 80 book
but
we also wanted to make it so people
could put it into a bag and take it to
shows
and use it as a reference guide so if
people
have any questions for me I’d love to
chat more
well I I I have a question to start up
and if you have a question
anybody that's listening right now
please just put it into the chat and
we'll
respond we will get that question it
looks like uh
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we can um get I’ll make sure that Mary
hears your question she
probably can see the questions as well
um
but oh okay actually I’m gonna start
with the first question that's asked
which is where can we purchase the
book
well you can purchase it um through
marylmartin.com and if you get it for
me and if you want it signed to anyone
in particular
I’m flattered Amazon doesn't have it
now
but Amazon is advertising as a
hardcover
but it's not a hardcover doesn't come
that way
also Whitman Publishing is selling it
but if you um
go to marylmartin.com it should be on
our website
or email us and I’m more than happy to
get it right out to you
okay we have we have some more
questions
here
um and uh oh somebody mentions that
they
had ordered the book from Amazon and
they do not have any scheduled
delivery date but you just explained the
Amazon
uh question um and
are there any postcards about Jeep
Wranglers
Jeep Wranglers well there are postcards
of Jeep Wranglers
I’m glad you said that so advertising
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um early advertising you can see like
this Harley Davidson
is very collectible but also which I
didn't talk about the
book goes to current postcards
which a lot of people could be familiar
with cards that are called rack cards or
go cards
so these were printed in the 90s and
into the 2000
they were given away for free and
they were put in restaurant walls and
you could just take them
and they were done by some of the most
creative advertising
minds of our period and they would
advertise things like automobiles
alcohol chewing gum movies coming
out
but so there are Jeep Wranglers is the
answer to the question
um I happen to know I I think I saw
behind you a book that said Cape Cod
have you done a
postcard book yes I have I did I so
I purposely put that up now with you
guys today
and it was um Karen Choppa and I did
this
book
and it's really all different pictures
of
of Cape Cod it's more of a it's a
picture book
there is not um there are prices in it
to give like a rough idea
of pricing but I did 40 books from all
over the US
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Cape Cod Memories: An Illustrated
History in Postcards, Karen Choppa &
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of different towns okay here we have
another a question
for you which a good question Tim I
would
I’m equally interested in the answer to
this question um
what is your understanding of any
copyright restrictions
on publishing some categories of
postcards
in a book that is a really great great
question I get asked that a lot
um unless it's from what my
understanding is prior to the 50s
you know there are no rights you can use
it for what
you like to use it unless it's
copyrighted by a company like
Disney or Coca-Cola a majority of
postcards do not have copyright issues
so I do get I could ask that very often
all right and I have another question
for you which and I don't
I think I thought of this based on what
you were just telling us about
postcards and how much postcards can
be worth or not worth and I am
wondering
do you ever run
into a postcard forgery like there's
is that even a thing with postcards that
people try to
forge postcards they do uh you know
forgery as I have this discussion with
my friend Dave
Bowers I mean even the earliest coins
the Romans used were forged so there's
always been some type of forgery
and you know in a way the hobby
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I think is a little blessed with that
the cards a majority of the cards are not
worth
doing forgeries of because you can
afford
the majority of them but certainly when
you get
they're very affordable so you're not
going to forge a card that's worth 20
bucks
but certainly when you get into the
thousand dollar
fifteen hundred dollar range you can get
forgeries
and it can be tough because
people are good at good at it now I mean
paper quality can be
replicated and people are good at it I’m
fortunate
I haven't had a lot of problems with it
but
I’ve known of a few cases so yes I think
if you ever want to get into collecting
a subject matter that's rare expensive
you should buy from a reputable dealer
that will back the card and that will
retake it back if you found a problem
with it I mean I certainly
would not suggest or advocate people
buying
a thousand dollar um Art Nouveau card
on eBay from somebody that they don't
know because
of that exact issue you want to buy it
from a
person that's reputable and there's many
of them and
there's IFPD roster a list of dealers
from across the country
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that are recognized as as leading
experts
all right um we have another question
from the audience you mentioned the
Columbian Exposition what is the
significance of that
well the Columbian Exposition is kind
of
our basis when we say the first
postcard was commercially released
to the public so they presented it as a
way to
send mail across the country
as a very affordable way I mean there
are certainly I mean
my friends and colleagues and I know
that there were postcards produced
earlier than that there were government
postal cards
that didn't have the illustrations on
the front
that postcards do but there were
postcards mailed prior to the Columbian
Exposition
but we are saying and as the book will
explain that's like when it was first
commercially
printed postcards at the Columbian Expo
okay um and somebody has already
gone to your website and looked for to
buy the book and says they can't find a
place to buy the book
on your website I know we're working
on
that right away
and you have to email or click I’m sorry
but they are
adding there's a lot of graphics they're
putting up of the book so people can
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actually look through the book so
we it should be any day but please email
me and
it'll be on there and I I see Leah’s
asked me
why we spelled postcard as one word
and it's a good question people sell it
both ways
the publisher Whitman Publisher went
back and forth with it and they just
concluded that
postcard is one word but I agree with
you Leah
I mean certainly we've seen it as two
words
on the back of a postcard it's spelled
as two words
but that's how the publisher wanted to
do it and I did
allow them to make some editing things
like that
in the book but I agree with you Leah
um here's another question on the
marymartin.com website might you be
able
sometime to allow searching on
keywords
you know my website probably is
antiquated compared to
um a lot of websites it's I think it's
an important thing I
you know I do a lot we do a lot of shows
and with the lack of shows going on this
year
it has given us a chance to
a complete the book b try to work on
more
things like our website and see work on
our shop which is going to be
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a gal um more of a gallery the president
of the Metro Club
years ago suggested to me Mary you
need
to make um Rod said
you need to make your shop more of like
a museum
because now when you walk you used to
walk into my store things would be in
boxes and
you couldn't see the beautiful cards so
if you weren't a collector you didn't
even know what was in the box
but now since the lack of shows due to
Covid we've had time to
really uh renovate and make the
make the shop beautiful so when you
walk
in it'll look more like art instead of
just cards and in boxes but I’m also
on that note when you come into the
shop
to appeal to younger generation
we have a touch screen computer where
you can go up and you type in La Jolla
California or you know baseball and
it'll show you images of those cards now
everything we have won't be on there
but
it'll give younger people
an idea what's available and what to ask
for and we're so that way
we're introducing cards to two younger
people
I mean we've got the collectors covered
when they come in they know what
they're
looking for
but we're trying to reach out and
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explain to younger people that
you know this early part of history the
early email
is um so fun and the messages can be
just as extraordinary as the as the card
but
um I do like all criticism and ideas and
suggestions on my website because
it's needed okay
um what things do you look at to date a
postcard
yeah that's another great question
people always ask well how
old do you know this is old and you
know
I just
I can date postcards like my mom could
cook without
measuring things you know I just can
you
know
pick it up and buy the paper I mean a
lot of things
and we'll explain that in the book will
be whether the backs divided or
undivided
or I mean certainly if it's postmarked
or dated
and canceled that's easy but it's not
always like that
but you can tell by the paper sometimes
and
you know on the linen texture of a card
whether it was done in the 40s
but the book explains that um well
there's
definitely easy ways for the no
the beginning collector to figure that
out
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and um are there any more if you have
any more questions now the time to
check
to type them out um but
I want to say um one of the things one
of the postcards that you showed
this morning was that series of fish
postcards
which were incredible or is that common
that they one
they take a whole bunch of postcards
what what's the history of that
really fun that's why I picked it out
and they're called installment cards and
this particular set is four but some
installment sets can be up to maybe 30
cards
and you know they'll maybe make a
picture of Napoleon or
I mean so they're really fun people
would send this is an unused set but
people would send one at a time and
um they did all different images Santa
Claus
mosquitoes kittens and all different
things but
they're um they're a novelty so they're
hard to find
sometimes all together but they're
called installments
the set probably sells for maybe sixty
dollars
but sometimes they're hard to find in
great condition
but because kids will play with them but
um
when the rack cards were done these
cards that I was telling you about that
are newer Absolut Vodka did a series
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and they did a series of a dozen that
made a vodka bottle
to make sure that people would come
back
and pick them up
and those are quite clever too so um
you know it was a good idea 100 years
ago and it was a good idea 15 years ago
because people like to put things
together and to collect things
all right any last uh questions
I think we are good then I’m
really delighted that you've been able
to join us today
and I hear lawn mowers behind me
so which means apparently the DPW
didn't
get the message
that uh we were doing this today um
but what a great fountain of knowledge
you are
absolutely fabulous and we look for
we have already put in our order for the
book so we hope to have a copy at the
Falmouth Public Library
before long and we so appreciate all of
you
that have come to these talks this week
that have and those
that one those of you that came today
have
it's just great um please do look at our
postcard collections which are now
online you can see them right from our
falmouthpubliclibrary.org webpage
they're
front and center um so do take a look at
those and if you have a story to share
with us
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about a Falmouth postcard please let me
know
um and we would love to share that
story
with more people
so thank you again Mary I really
appreciate your being here
very much I appreciate it thanks
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Transcript of Mary Martin's Zoom Presentation on A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards
1946
Alphonse Mucha
Anita Gunning
Antique Trader
author talk
Cape Cod
Columbian Exposition
David Bowers
Estee Lauder
Houston
international federation of postcard dealers
leonard lauder
manhattan
mary l martin
mary l martin ltd
metropolitan postcard club
museum of fine arts boston
new york city
Postcards from Falmouth
robert hunt
roderick kennedy
rosie o'donnell
transcript
union hall
waverley cycles