Which, now that I come to think of it, will be interesting to anyone who grew up after milk deliveries became a thing of the past. I even have one asking someone to ask the milkman to leave a bottle of milk. There’s usually a vertical bar that splits the postcard in half.
Look for the vertical line that divides the postcard. The address should be written on the back of the card.
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Unfortunately most seem to be very mundane. Adding the Address Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to address a postcard: Flip the card over to the back of the card. SheilaMilne (author) from Kent, UK on September 12, Yes, sometimes people do mention current affairs and that's so very interesting. the postmark and postage stamp, if they are availableĭo You Use Any Other Ways to Estimate the Age of Postcards?.In summary, you should be looking at the following: I hope that this has given you some guidance as far as what you should be looking for in order to decide on how old a postcard is. There are always vintage postcards available on eBay at reasonable prices, though I have to say that there are fewer bargains than there used to be.ĭo study the images, and read the description carefully, both for what is said and, more particularly, what is not said regarding condition. buildings which appear in some cards (ie recently built or have been demolished).
costume, probably particularly women's fashion since men's tend not to change so radically.models of cars, trams, trains, other transportation.Some of these methods can be fairly exact others are only an indication. Postal rates for postcards in France 1878 - 1971 Date This remained the main type of coloured postcard until the start of the 20th century. They used a method called chomolithography. In 1889, a publisher in Austria became the first to produce a coloured postcard. See more about all of these dating methods below. It is really quite a fascinating subject, when you get into it, as is all postal history. If you have the postage rates, you can work out when it was mailed. Yet another way, for cards that have been through the mail, is the value of stamps used.Sometimes, cards were printed as souvenirs of special events (they still are, of course), so that's another way of dating the manufacture.
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