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  Vintage Greeting cards

*"Sweet vintage greeting cards."*


Billions of dollars in cards are sold each year. You can blame that fact
on the UK's Uniform Postage Act of 1839. Felicitations had been
exchanged as far back as ancient China and Egypt. And the oldest extant
Valentine greetings date back to the fifteenth Century. But it wasn't
till the issue of the 1st postage stamp - the Pennny Black - in 1840
that mail became cheap for the masses.

( Heretofore, the recipient had to pay the postage. Hand-made cards
could not keep up with demand, and it wasn't long before mass production
made each occasion big business. Regarded as the daddy of the Yankee
Yuletide Card, Prang was producing over 5,000,000 cards by 1881.

Their complicated creations of ribbon and lace or mechanical ( pop-up )
entertainments are highly collectible today, and several sell in the
$100 to $500 range. Victorian Valentines, Ellen Clapsaddle mechanicals,
and Santa Clause cards are all extremely well liked by collectors. You
will select, on the other hand, to focus on youngsters' cards from the
1950's, Looney Tune characters, or Star Wars / Star Trek. Classified as
ephemera, cards should be stored in acid-free, archival-quality sleeves
or boxes, and away from heat and direct daylight. Cards should never be
stored with their envelopes. The glue on the envelopes ultimately
yellows and will leave a stain on any material with which it is in
lengthened contact.

They've a program whereby they turn old, used cards into new that are
sold for the benefit of the ranch.

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