Postcards from Indochina

The golden age of postcards 1900-1920. Millions of postcards circulate around the world. The advent of postcards is the period 1900 to 1905.

Three periods, three acronyms:

CPA antique postcard 1900-1920

CPSM semi-modern postcard 1921-1975

CPM modern postcard 1975 to present day

I invite you to discover Indochina through the postcards that have been published, sold, bought and collected since 1900 by those curious about faraway lands.

Indochina postcards are images that show us the characters, situations, customs and daily life of a magical but sometimes tragic Indochina.

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Sometimes excessive prices
15 March 2020

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!
Examples of postcards from Indochina
1 January 2015

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 (…)
Some prices of postcards from Indochina
1 January 2015

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 (…)
Collecting, yes! but what a theme
1 January 2015

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 (…)
How to Date a Postcard
1 January 2015

• 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 (…)
Best sellers on the net
1 January 2015

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 (…)
Prices
1 January 2014

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 (…)
History
1 January 2014

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 (…)

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