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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week’s column mentioned postcards in passing. I love postcards and have mentioned them in various contexts several times over the years. My postcard collection is getting really big — several ...

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 ...

OAKLAND -- — Sheryl Oring sat on a folding chair on a downtown street corner, her fingers poised over the keyboard of her classic Rheinmetall typewriter. Sitting across from her, Maria Theren dictated ...

I do have some of the uh cards that were issued in 1893. Don Brown describes his home in Myerstown as *** house of cards and it is literally it features real photographic postcards produced between 19 ...

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 ...

I was into deltiology long before I ever heard of the word. Actually, I was worried when someone I met called me a deltiologist several years ago. Little did I know that deltiology was the hobby of ...