Vol. 1, No. 4, August 2005
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Vol 1, No.4 August 2005
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UPCOMING SHOW - EVENT INFORMATION
(Show Promoters, see info below for listings in our Postcard News from Courthouse Square -Show Calendar, $15 for 12 issues or until show date)
Feature Article
Men's Fashions in Linen Era Postcards - By Susan Brown Nicholson
Featured Show
3rd Annual Summer Show, Lots of New Dealers
Friday Aug 26, 2005 10 AM to 7 PM (Early Bird at 9am)
Saturday Aug 27, 2005 , 10 AM to 4 PM
I-44 at Glenstone Exit 80A, next to Cracker Barrel
2820 N Glenstone Springfield Missouri
Call 888-451-0340 or email for details or contracts
Postcard/paper/stamp dealers include Jerry Einkopf, MO, Barry Yancey, IN, Bill Burdick, AR, Jim Davis, AR, Jeff Eischen, NE, Wallace Chariton, TX, John Oliveri, TX, Dorothy Bischel, IL, Chris Peaden, KS, Bernie Bernstein, Main Street Philatelics, Branson, MO, Joel Johnson, FL, Jerry Schmidt, MO, John Poehlein, MO, Hal Ottaway, KS, Jim Taylor, MO. More expected by showtime
This is a reminder to everyone that
Jim Mehrer's Postal History Mail Bid Sale #67
which contains more than 6,300 lots, closes on Tuesday, August 23, at 10 PM Central Time.
Mostly postal history, but also includes a "Picture Postcards" category. See the auction listings at
http://www.postal-history.com/cover.html
and follow the links to the categories of your choice.
The sale closes on Tuesday, August 23, at 10 PM Central Time.
Email: mehrer@postal-history.com
MORE DETAIL ON SUMMER/FALL SHOWS AND EVENTS
Sep 24, 2005. Des Moines, IA. Postcard Show at the Park Fair Mall. 100 East Euclid (at 2nd Avenue), Des Moines. Sat: 8 AM-4 PM. FREE admission. FREE parking. Many great vendors will be on site to do free appraisals and provide you with an array of vintage postcards for sale. If you wish to be a vendor in this event, or for other information, contact: Greater Chicago Productions, P.O. Box 595, Lisle, IL 60532. (630) 964-5240. Email: Deltiology@aol.com
Sept 30, Oct 1 Fall
Dallas Metro Postcard Show and Sale ,
Friday 10-6 (9a early bird), Saturday 10-4, Southfork Hotel, Hwy 75,
1600 N Central Expy Exit 29, East( Plano, TX , Call 888-451-0340 or
email
for details or contracts
Oct 6 Joplin Missouri Antique Collectible Paper and Postcard Auction,
Hammons Convention Center, adjacent to Holiday Inn Joplin, I-44 &
US 71 (business) at Range Line Rd. (lots of details below)
Oct 7,8, Joplin
Postcard and Paper Americana Show and
Sale, Fri 10-6 (9a early bird), Sat
10-4, Hammons Convention Center, adjacent to Holiday Inn Joplin, I-44
& US 71 (business) at Range Line Rd. Call 888-451-0340 or
email
for details or contracts
COMING THIS
FALL
ALMOST EVERYONE PLANS TO ATTEND
28th Annual
Wichita International Postcard Show
Saturday, October 15 from 9:00 to 6:00
Sunday, October 16 from 10:00 to 4:00
All Saint's Gymnasium, west of Via Christi Hospital at 3313 Grand in SE Wichita, KS, just NE of Hillside and Harry Streets. Free Admission, Free Parking, Exhibits, Show Theme: Railroadiana.
Postcard Seminar open to public at 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM on Sunday October 16. For membership and further show information, email Hal Ottaway at hottaway@cox.net
DON'T FORGET!!! Wichita International Postcard Show is pretty much the greatest postcard show in America....as they say, if you can attend only one a year....it should be this one...that's what I think...Jim
For an UPDATE ON WICHITA INN EAST see last months newsletter
Editors' Note: Many collectors and dealers from around the county converged on the Lake County Discovery Museum Wauconda, IL, this month for a postcard FIRST.....Susan Nicholson and the Museum produced a fantastic postcard show, including tours of the postcard museum, and the Curt Teich Archive. All those wonderful linen era postcards make for a terrific way to spend your postcard time, and the dealer group at the show and sale included 20 dealers from both Coasts and lots of places in between, a very diverse group with great material. I would like to thank Katherine Hamilton Smith and the museum staff for a great time, and a special thanks to Susan for making it all happen. We hope this all comes together again next summer, and becomes an annual event. What better way to promote our hobby, than to meet once a year at this great postcard exhibit and museum. ....thanks...Jim Taylor, CourthouseSquare.net
Below is our Feature Article by noted postcard author and authority Susan Brown Nicholson. Susan has been featured in all the major postcard collecting press, as well as on national TV. Her company, Greater Chicago Productions, produces postcard shows in Chicago, IL, and Des Moines IA. The author can be reached by email by clicking here Deltiology@aol.com
Men's Fashions
Custom clothes for the season were sold during the Linen postcard era. Men wore hats, colorful ties and had suits made to fit. Imagine a nice stylish suit for the GOLF COURSE. The postcards reflecting men's fashions are limited but very well designed when found. Straw and Panama hats are the most common, yet, very desirable. The idea of wearing a two piece suit with a red tie and matching handkerchief seems silly to us today as the proper golf attire but Wellworth's Spring line included such an outfit. "There's definitely a feeling of real comfort in a garment "Custom Made" to your individual measure and instruction. Tailored clothes cost no more……."
The term Haberdashery had been lost in the sea of unforgettable words, but it is prevalent on the Linen era men's clothing postcards. Cravats have been replaced with necktie and straw hats have been replaced with baseball hats as the sun screen of choice. It however is a joy to look at the postcards that feature men and women when they fully dressed before leaving the house.
Postcards of this style sell for $15-35 each
(Special Thanks to Susan Brown Nicholson for this month's article. She can be reached via email clicking here Deltiology@aol.com )
Real photo postcards, photography, printed postcards, posters, covers, broadsides.
All types of collectible paper goods. DEL's Paper Treasury will soon be offering an online auction of real photo postcards and photography. These auctions will be held online at their website delspapertreasury.com. Lyn Knight's 40 + years experience in building collections of U.S. currency and coins as well as 20 years in the auction business, helps make this a great opportunity to build your collection. Sales will be online, and catalogues will be available to subscribers. DON'T Miss This Opportunity.
Just Click here to Visit DEL'S PAPER TREASURY,, complete form to get on his list.
New Reference Materials Available
We get lots of inquiries for the latest in reference material for both postcards and postal history collectors. Here are some of the new releases, as well as links to other references. These are available now HERE
Attention Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee Collectors.
The newest postal history reference book complete with a scarcity index is HERE!
- "United States Post Office Volume 7: The Lower Mississippi Valley." (Richard W. Helbock.) The NEWEST book in this useful and popular series contains an alphabetical listing of all independent post offices that ever operated in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. In addition to post office names, the list includes location by county and state, years of operation and a scarcity index for every entry, relative to the most common postmark for each town. This is the first such scarcity information EVER published for these five states. 320-pages. Softbound. Price: $27.50 plus $5 priority p/h, use paypal here
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