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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joe2007, post: 2757967, member: 1262&quot;]In the Finds Thread I alluded that I had recently purchased a box of antique postcards and other ephemera at an estate auction for $45. The estate auction was fairly crowded and I didn&#039;t get the opportunity to preview the box as much as I would have liked and also didn&#039;t really want to draw too much unneeded attention to it. In my cursory glance I didn&#039;t see any particularly nice or valuable cards, just bread and butter holiday greetings cards and the like with very few &quot;place&quot; based cards with buildings on them. I did however notice that almost all of the cards were old, pre-1920s postcards and that there were approximately 200 cards in the box.</p><p><br /></p><p>I ended up winning the bid without a lot of competition, only one opposing bidder, ending up at the winning bid of $45. I was quite pleased at this outcome since I was willing to continue bidding up until $70 due to the fact that the postcards were older. I estimate there is around 200 to 250 postcards in the lot and I pulled 81 keepers for my collection. I expect I will eventually sell the rest someday. There was also some other neat goodies in the box including a neat 1909 summary of the events of the Coshocton, OH county fair, quite a few advertising/trade cards, a couple of old photographs, two pieces of vintage doll clothing, and a bunch of Coca-Cola nature trading cards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some of the postcards I thought were keepers. I will need to post them in several posts due to the 10 attachment limit. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to hear your thoughts on the lot. I am fairly happy with them, doesn&#039;t get a lot cheaper then 22 cents a card for older assortments of postcards. I think the Halloween &amp; Christmas cards alone probably &quot;pay&quot; for the lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]278576[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]278577[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]278578[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]278579[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]278580[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]278581[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]278582[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]278583[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]278584[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]278585[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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