Post Cards - Collecting

Post Card Collectors Magazine, Thousand Oaks, California (26 issues a year, $2) and, of course, Hobbies, carry much of interest about this hobby. Advertisements in these and other magazines frequently offer packets of miscellaneous cards at $1.50 to $2 each, or a dozen cards of single subjects at 25 cents to 50 cents.

Get your non-collecting friends to collect for you. Almost everybody you know receives a dozen or more picture post cards a year. Get a dozen friends helping in this way, and you will add 150 to 200 cards to your collection in the course of a year.

Almost every family has one member who hangs on to things, not because he is a collector, but just because he has an aversion to throwing things out. Such a person may be another good source of post cards. If he is one of the older members of your family, so much the better, for he is likely to have some unusual and rare cards in that battered old carton up in the attic.

By the way, if you have many friends traveling abroad, ask them to keep in touch with you. Then you will not only add to your post card collection, but you will have the nucleus of a stamp collection. Who knows, they may even bring you back matchbooks and menus as well!

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