Any of these post cards have resale value?

Came across these for $3 each ,..anything special here?

 

I can't see them very well, but many of them look to be worth at least $3. I like the one with the strange hat near the lower left! The two at upper left do not look like the right size to be postcards.

 

I love the woman in the crazy hat!

I have one of my great-great-grandmother in a car like that, apparently taken during her visit to the Alaska-Yukon Exposition in 1909.

 

yes the one with the hat caught my eye as well, do you think there is resale value for these and what kind of price ?

 

I would say "Nope!" except, maybe, for the building/places PCs.
And then only if they are somewhere really special.
Otherwise they look like plain ol' RPPCs to me. The kind you can find for 50 cents or a dollar at most sales/flea markets.
But, that's just me.

 

thanks for that info!! the buildings look like maybe after the SF earthquake?

 

It depends on what one collects. I always go for the pictures of people, but some people like the buildings better. - And it also might help if any of them have interesting writing on the back, especially if there is some identification. Although that seems kind of rare with RPPCs, to have a way to identify a specific person.

 

I just searched hat rppc limited to Sold items in eBay. They range from $1.99 to over $20 on the first screen of results. And I didn't see any in which the hat was that fantastic. Although it's true that some of the other ones you're considering may not have the same drawing power.

 

thanks fig I think I will get the hat one

 

I could write you story for each one, heart remding or richly comical, but at $100 a time, I don't think it's economically feasible. So 50c. a time might be nearer the mark.

But I'm almost tempted to do a freebie on the lady who has had an accident with a lampshade.

 

"accident with a lampshade"

Laugh my fanny off.............

 

Laugh my fanny off..........

But for the full story only a close up of that one card would inspire the tripping muse.

BTW, that 'compilment', well intentioned, leaves an indelible psychic stain on anyone who has been present at autopsies and seen cadavers in just the condition you describe. :-(


Fret not, just joshing wid you. Resquiscat in pace.

 

Well I picked up the crazy hat lady,...I love it! That hat is soooo over the top! And it looks like it is a Native American lady and the studio is O. M.Hofsteadter of Portland Oregon. Now any ideas as to age / date? Pre 1900?

 

I almost bought the woman harvesting grapes in Napa but passed, lol I'll probably get it too There was also a 11 x 14 gelatin print of a 1915 group pic of the bowling team the "Roi-Tan'S" I'm working on getting that one too.

 

I need to get a hat like hers

 

Irene had had second thoughts about the whole posing thing, but it was really too late now. The only way the Governer was going to hire her as Nanny to his repulsive kids was if she did what he said, and just sitting there with a silly thing on her head did not seem as weird as some of the family practices she had seen in her career.

On entering the room there had seemed to be an unusual tension in the air, the photographer was uneasy and the Governer was oddly excited. It was the sort of thing that fancy people might do, when the Governer started ripping apart the furniture, and when the shade from a very attractive floor lamp was deemed to be the exact and ideal way to set off her beauty, it was reasonable that at least a bottle of Southern Comfort endorsed this opinion.

Much later, Irene had a successful career, not entirely due to this historic but in some ways personally embarassing photo session.

 

lol LOVE IT!!! Yes you could cut the tension with a knife...

 

After looking around I'm thinking 1900-1910 for the hat,?

 

Tauriel, can you show a picture of the back of the postcard? Sometimes they can be dated by the font, what the words say, the stamp box, etc.