The Postcard Price Guide by J.L. Mashburn (2001, Paperback, Illustrated)

I initially purchased the "rated best price guide" to learn more about postcards and to get an idea of what type pricing I should put on postcards I planned on selling.

While the history and terminology was extremely helpful, I came to realize that it was all online anyway. I think I would have more appreciation for the book if I were a collector of collectible collectibles books. What a mouth-full!

I did learn that pricing in the collectible postcards field is based more on the sentimental value than anything else. The prices in the Postcard Price Guide were from 2001; which by the way appears to be the most recent publication.

Anyway, I abandoned my aspirations of selling single postcards on eBay (man do I envy the people with the patience to accomplish that feat!). I sold the postcards as a lot of 2000+ and threw in the Postcard Price Guide as lagniappe.

If you are buying it as a collectible, it does appear to be a quality publication. If you are planning to buy it for pricing reference purposes, you would do better to use eBay and other large deltiology websites.

While my postcard adventure did not fair too well, I do hope to make a better go of it with ebooks and digital information. Drop by sometime at InfoEmporium.