Vintage Postcard Collecting’s History
Postcards have been a great way to communicate for over a hundred and fifty years now. Postcards are popular for many reasons, these days, the postcard templates that you can locate on the web have made it inexpensive and easy to print and mail. What many don’t realize, however, is that postcard collecting is one of the largest hobbies in the world. Many people love to collect souvenir postcards from places they visit as a great way to visualize their past vacations.
Postcards started gaining popularity in the early 20th century when many countries around the globe began creating postcards with photos and images of their country’s most scenic places and things. The first Eiffel Tower postcard was printed in 1889.
Today you can find and collect numerous postcards from almost every country around the world. Whether you are traveling to South America, North America, Europe, Asia or Africa, you can purchase souvenir postcards from all of the places you visit, commemorating your trip and reminding you of places you have seen and visited.
Some of the souvenir postcards may be worth a lot of money due to where they are from; the older the postcard the better its worth. There are people who narrowly focus their postcard collecting to only a particular region; some prefer a particular style of postcard, some would rather be collecting postcards of a particular theme whereas others collect souvenir postcards from around the world in many varying styles.
If you do a lot of traveling, postcard collecting could be a great hobby for you. You can simply purchase souvenir poscards from your various destinations, and in no time at all, you can build quite a collection. But if you are not much of a traveler but still have a hobby of collecting postcards, you can easily get them online. One o the best online source for postcard collectors is eBay.
Antique postcards include images or pictures of memorable buildings, expositions, vintage cars, trains, sports stars and sports personalities, historic figures and many other things. Some of the postcard collectors have a wide variety of postcards from years or decades past which can be worth a lot of money.
Those serious postcard collectorsshould be very very careful when preserving old postcards and make sure there is no damaged caused to them due to anything like environmental issues or rough handling. They should never be exposed to chemicals which can damage the post cards for ever.
Postcard collectors are also known as a deltiologist (It comes from a Greek word which means collector of small pictures or writings).In the early 1900′s, postcards grew rapidly in popularity and availability. More than a billion postcards were sold in a year in the United States alone.
You can find souvenir, antique or vintage postcards in many places such as antique stores, various auctions or even swap meets. You can also search for ads of postcards in classifieds in the newspaper for postcard collectors looking for a buyer of their collection, or a piece of their collection. You might also like this resource if you are interested in or looking for free Christmas postcard templates this holiday season.
Most postcards are printed on cardboard but you can also find some vintage, older postcards printed on different mediums, such as metal. These can be real keepers!
An Art Lovers Guide To The City Of Glasgow
July 16, 2009 by myarn
Filed under Travel Tips
Glasgow is Scotland’s largest city with superb shopping plus an incredible nightlife. For the more bohemian tourist there are many places to visit especially in the West End which features boutiques, cafés, tea rooms, bars, restaurants and clubs as well as some superb Glasgow bed and breakfast. In the article below I will describe three Glasgow attractions which should be of special interest to those people who have an interest in art; the Burrell Collection, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the House For An Art Lover:
The Burrell Collection
Sir William and Lady Burrel gifted The Burrel Collection to the city of Glasgow, in 1944 and the collection can be seen at Pollok Country Park which is found in the south of Glasgow This magnificent collection of works of art includes over 9 thousand items of art. The collection is incredibly diverse containing a selection of modern artistic sculptures plus a collection of Islamic art. Visitors are able to see paintings by artists such as Cezanne, Degas and other European artists. Besides sculptures and paintings you can enjoy the incredibly beautiful collections of alabasters, tapestries, English furniture and stained glass. On top of all this, the Burrell Collection also contains an immensely important collection of art from the medieval period and collections from ancient Chine & Egypt.
House For An Art Lover
The House For An Art Lover is one of the most popular attractions in Glasgow. This incredible Art Nouveau house was designed, originally, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (with the help of his wife Margaret Macdonald), Glasgow’s most famous architect.
Actually the design was created for a competition of 1901 to create a design for a ‘House for an Art Lover’, but, the entry from the Mackintosh couple was disqualified from the competition on the grounds that it was submitted too late. Luckily, over 100 years later the house stands completed in Bellahouston Park thanks to the efforts and hard work of the engineer Graham Roxburgh and architect Professor Andy Macmillan. Building began in nineteen eighty nine, ceased for a short time but resumed again in nineteen ninety four due to the collaboration between the Glasgow City Council and Glasgow School of Art.
The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
One of Glasgow and Scotland’s premier museums, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery is home to one of Europe’s great civic art collections, but also it is one of Scotland’s most popular free to enter visitor attractions.
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is sited on the banks of the River Kelvin, on Argyle Street, in the West End of Glasgow. The gallery was constructed in a Spanish Baroque style following the Glaswegian tradition of using red sandstone. The gallery was followed the designs of Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen and opened in nineteen hundred and one. The collections of the museum were originally from the old Kelvingrove House Museum and the McLellan Galleries.
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