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Sometimes excessive prices

2020-03-15T15:15:00Z

Merchants' surprises
Oddities, mistakes or abuses, sometimes we ask ourselves questions...
We prefer to say "Ignorance of the true value, sellers believe that..."
example this map
value between 6 and 12 euros maximum, depending on the quality, offered for sale 120 euros!

- Postcards from Indochina

Examples of postcards from Indochina

2015-01-01T15:55:00Z

Cloud maps dated before 1904
Photo cards
Photo cards by definition are photos used to serve as postcards.
The notion of photo card should be used for cards before 1930.
Black and white postcards from the 1950s should not bear this name.
The collection of Indochine photo cards is very interesting. They show very typical places, facts and situations and sometimes these maps are projects, proposals, postcard essays.
But the collection of photo cards has a major disadvantage: its (…)

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Some prices of postcards from Indochina

2015-01-01T15:44:00Z

Informed postcard collectors know perfectly well the value of Old Postcards from Indochina. The novice collector hesitates about the price or value of the postcards. Like any object, you will have to distinguish between the market price, the passion price or the usual price.
The market price is the current price that the professionals have decided on the postcards. In general, their criteria are based first on the quality of the map: good condition not, not cut, then then comes the (…)

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Collecting, yes! but what a theme

2015-01-01T15:36:00Z

Collecting yes, but what?
Before embarking on a collection, you have to ask yourself the question Collecting yes but What?
You can collect a country, a region, a village or a theme.
You can start with a country, a theme and then refine with a region or a village and vice versa.
If you want to build a good collection, you have to consider a collection between 30 and 50 objects at least.
It is important to know the scope of the chosen collection, what is the probable extent of the (…)

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How to Date a Postcard

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• On the back of the card: a decree of 18 November 1903 authorised the address on the right side and correspondence on the left. Consequently, if the back of the card is not divided into two parts, it is a card published before December 1903, and if it is divided, the card is after December 1903.
• By the stamp: The stamps of Indochina are clearly identifiable. They were sold at the post office for individuals or by the wavemaster or intendants for the military. Between their type and (…)

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Best sellers on the net

2015-01-01T15:18:00Z

Best sellers on delcampe
The delcampe.net site is a auction site with a price subject to rising auctions and with a fixed price
How it works
with fixed price
The principle is simple: a seller registers, scans a card indicates a value.
A buyer signs up and declares that they are buying the card.
with a price subject to the ascending auction
The process: a salesperson registers, scans a card, indicates a minimum value and a deadline.
Interested buyers register on the site, (…)

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Prices

2014-01-01T14:28:00Z

Postcards from Indochina
Old postcards before 1920 View of mountains with few or no characters: between 3 and 5 euros. View of Halong Bay with or without boat: between 3 and 6 euros. Card of characters posing, ethnic group, men, women, children: between 4 and 7 euros. View of monuments or buildings without characters: between 4 and 7 euros. Poisoners or executions of 1908: between 15 and 25 euros Yen the: From Tham, pirates, fortin, wounded: between 10 and 25 euros Ethnic groups or (…)

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History

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POSTCARD Invention and introduction
The postcard is an Austrian invention. Samuel Hermann printed the first ones in 1869, sold by the Austrian Post Office.
In France, the first postcards were issued during the 1870 war. They were issued by the forerunner of the Red Cross, the Société de Secours aux blessés, in the occupied zone following the defeat. They were intended to enable the wounded and besieged to communicate with their families, and were stamped with a Prussian stamp.
Then, (…)

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INDOCHINA CARTACARO.COM Postcards, Photographs Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia

Sometimes excessive prices

Examples of postcards from Indochina

Some prices of postcards from Indochina

Collecting, yes! but what a theme

How to Date a Postcard

Best sellers on the net

Prices

History

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