Comments on: Where’s Will? Postcards from the Edge of the Collecting World http://www.worthpoint.com/article/where%e2%80%99s-will-postcards-edge Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:51:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: kristin http://www.worthpoint.com/article/where%e2%80%99s-will-postcards-edge/comment-page-1#comment-23440 kristin Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:46:15 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2490675#comment-23440 Hi will, I loved the article and how you mention the importance of communication that post cards have been giving us. I found it sad to be able to agree with your statement of how the paper world is wilting away. As you know I am a printmaker and very aware of the growing tech fad. Collecting is something I do to hold on to the beauty of communication that takes you away from the every day hustle and bustle and slow things down a bit to breath. That is a passion i will never let go. P.s.I won't be working at the Hyatt too much longer, because I will be advancing my photography career will Croma Cars Hi will, I loved the article and how you mention the importance of communication that post cards have been giving us. I found it sad to be able to agree with your statement of how the paper world is wilting away. As you know I am a printmaker and very aware of the growing tech fad. Collecting is something I do to hold on to the beauty of communication that takes you away from the every day hustle and bustle and slow things down a bit to breath. That is a passion i will never let go.

P.s.I won’t be working at the Hyatt too much longer, because I will be advancing my photography career will Croma Cars

]]> By: Nick Ryan http://www.worthpoint.com/article/where%e2%80%99s-will-postcards-edge/comment-page-1#comment-13144 Nick Ryan Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:07:20 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2490675#comment-13144 Hi Will, a good follow up to Harry's article. My son in England collects top end Star Wars memorabilia, with a view to future investments, but as he is so interested, he enjoys the items, so any returns he may eventually get is a bonus. A true collector. Long live the collectors. Kind regards, Nick Hi Will, a good follow up to Harry’s article. My son in England collects top end Star Wars memorabilia, with a view to future investments, but as he is so interested, he enjoys the items, so any returns he may eventually get is a bonus. A true collector.

Long live the collectors.

Kind regards, Nick

]]> By: Sarah http://www.worthpoint.com/article/where%e2%80%99s-will-postcards-edge/comment-page-1#comment-13142 Sarah Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:56:17 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2490675#comment-13142 I am in my early 30's (and I know that isn't a spring chicken) yet I stick out like a sore thumb whenever I attend antique and estate auctions. The good news is that when I go to auctions the types of things that I am interested in buying are not usually the types of things the folks are buying. I once had an auctioneer ask me what the heck I was going to do with that stuff upon buying a lot of vintage Japan planters (I bought them because I thought they looked cool). It's true I sell vintage online, and have found that many people my age just don't have the time to spend all day waiting around at auctions or driving around looking for estate sales (I know I didn't have time to do that before I chose to make selling vintage my full time job). I think that many young collectors also buy vintage and antique items because they have a great aesthetic in their home and aren't as hung up on only buying specific make or designer. It simply looks great in their home and not everyone else has it (a conversation piece if you will) All I can say is I have been buying vintage and antiques forever and only buy things that I love that will look great in my home or have some sort of sentimental value, I have never bought anything because of it's potential value. Great article! I really enjoyed reading it. Sarah Columbus, OH I am in my early 30′s (and I know that isn’t a spring chicken) yet I stick out like a sore thumb whenever I attend antique and estate auctions. The good news is that when I go to auctions the types of things that I am interested in buying are not usually the types of things the folks are buying. I once had an auctioneer ask me what the heck I was going to do with that stuff upon buying a lot of vintage Japan planters (I bought them because I thought they looked cool). It’s true I sell vintage online, and have found that many people my age just don’t have the time to spend all day waiting around at auctions or driving around looking for estate sales (I know I didn’t have time to do that before I chose to make selling vintage my full time job). I think that many young collectors also buy vintage and antique items because they have a great aesthetic in their home and aren’t as hung up on only buying specific make or designer. It simply looks great in their home and not everyone else has it (a conversation piece if you will)
All I can say is I have been buying vintage and antiques forever and only buy things that I love that will look great in my home or have some sort of sentimental value, I have never bought anything because of it’s potential value.
Great article! I really enjoyed reading it.

Sarah
Columbus, OH

]]> By: Karyn Shaudis http://www.worthpoint.com/article/where%e2%80%99s-will-postcards-edge/comment-page-1#comment-13131 Karyn Shaudis Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:35:06 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2490675#comment-13131 Collecting postcards has always been the treat at the end of any buying trip I have taken. Over the many years I was a dealer, it was a gift to spend my last day collecting paper and chromolithographic images of Asti's pretty ladies or lovely Klein florals. Since they were one of the earliest forms of communications between families and friends, their messages were ones of longing and love. They were the scrap of news from home or the whisper of homesickness that people shared around the turn of the century before phones were readily available. After my major shopping was complete and the containers were filled I would begin to buy postcards. I saved them for the flight home. On the plane I would read them all noting the basic message of I miss you. During some months at my store I would use the pretty fronts as display on the jewelry cases of my store. Some Holiday specific themes like Valentine's Day or Easter would make my months income. Almost everyone likes a pretty postcard and can give them as hostess gifts and birthday greetings. A little piece of affordable vintage. I suppose it is alot like reading obituaries or graveyard headstones. It is folk art in the written form. I hope we never lose that desire to communicate. In todays world we have instant communication and may lose the importance of the written word. And I do mean all of the letters in each word. I hope not. Best regards, Karyn Shaudis Nightingale Antiques Sonoma County, California Collecting postcards has always been the treat at the end of any buying trip I have taken. Over the many years I was a dealer, it was a gift to spend my last day collecting paper and chromolithographic images of Asti’s pretty ladies or lovely Klein florals.

Since they were one of the earliest forms of communications between families and friends, their messages were ones of longing and love. They were the scrap of news from home or the whisper of homesickness that people shared around the turn of the century before phones were readily available.
After my major shopping was complete and the containers were filled I would begin to buy postcards. I saved them for the flight home. On the plane I would read them all noting the basic message of I miss you.

During some months at my store I would use the pretty fronts as display on the jewelry cases of my store. Some Holiday specific themes like Valentine’s Day or Easter would make my months income. Almost everyone likes a pretty postcard and can give them as hostess gifts and birthday greetings. A little piece of affordable vintage.

I suppose it is alot like reading obituaries or graveyard headstones. It is folk art in the written form.

I hope we never lose that desire to communicate. In todays world we have instant communication and may lose the importance of the written word. And I do mean all of the letters in each word. I hope not.

Best regards,

Karyn Shaudis
Nightingale Antiques
Sonoma County, California

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