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POSTCARD THEME PAGE TELEVISION continued from page 13 When television first entered households, complete attention to it was paramount. This is beautifully demonstrated here with the head of the household going off to work on his hands and knees so as not to disturb the family viewing! THE DEALER AND COLLECTOR SHOULD BE FRIENDS... (from page 11) round and look at his stock - which contained some rare and exciting cards. Many of these were at a price which would make the average punter at postcard fairs blink a bit, so there was the added attraction for him that here was someone who was prepared to spend a lot of money for good and rare cards without quibbling. But was it fair to other Portsmouth collectors? However, I agree with the comment made by Ken Hassell that if cards are advertised as being on sale, then they should not go on the table until the public arrive. But, as I write this, more possibilities of claims to unfairness strike me, if we take things to extremes. If I come to a fair with Andrew, thus allowing him to go buying cards, is that unfair to both collectors and to dealers who have to stay at their stall? I'm afraid the truth of the matter is that life frequently is unfair, and the more you try to make it fair, the more complicated it gets, as I hope I have demonstrated here. So, to return to my previous point, by and large, I don't think it is wrong for dealers to trade before fairs. I think there One way of teaching those new to collecting why prices vary is to show contrasting cards of the same scene. I’m showing three postcards of South Parade Pier - but with very differing prices. The first is by the well-known Portsmouth photographer, Stephen Cribb. It shows the pier newly rebuilt after a fire, and was posted in August 1908. It cost me £3 The second one, by an unknown photographer just a few days earlier has, in addition to the pier, some of the bathing machines, and an intriguing piece of machinery in the foreground. This may have been to do with the building of the pier - if you look very carefully, you can see that work is still going on. All this is reflected in the price tag - £8 14 Picture Postcard Monthly December 2009 One of my favourite modern postcard artists is Fernand Zacot who signs himself simply ZACOT. This superb design was done for the French telephone directory and published as a postcard by PTT Cartophilie in 1994. may even be advantages for collectors. Let us suppose that Dealer A, who has a regular customer for a particular subject, sees a card on a stall where Dealer B does not specialise in that subject. He may buy it with his client in mind, obviously at a discount. When the client comes along, Dealer A pulls out this card and says, I've got this for you. He may add a slight profit, Rob Roy Albums Callers welcome but please ring first Rob Roy Albums “CROSSHALL” CHELSFIELD VILLAGE nr ORPINGTON, KENT BR6 6EN Tel: 01689 828052 he may even, in the spirit of good customer relations, make no profit on that particular card at all. His client now has the card with which he is happy, whereas he might never have gone to Dealer B. And once again, of course, this raises the objection - is this fair to other buyers and collectors? Where I do agree with collectors is that this is all We specialise in supplying Cigarette Card, Postcard and Ephemera collectors with an extensive range of Quality Accessories We sell our own Postcard/Cigarette Card Albums with polypropolene pages in a range of sizes, plus Postcard Storage Boxes Postcard Protectors Monthly Magazines etc We aare aat Haywards HHeath (5th DDecember), Birmingham ((6th December) aand London Bloomsbury ((20th December) Catalogue and Price List Available Email: robroyalbums@btinternet.com www.robroyalbums.co.uk
fine if dealers then put these cards on sale at other fairs. I think it is unfortunate that some cards are going straight on Ebay or other auction sites, and I am not sure that this course of action is, ultimately, good for dealers. But that's an entirely different subject. I would end by saying, in my experience, most dealers give discounts to regular customers, and you can always ask if a discount is available, especially if you've made a large purchase. And of course, there's nothing stopping a collector from setting up as a dealer, thus getting to The Great Escape this Christmas is to..... The GLASGOW Postcard Fair Sunday 27th December 2009 10.30 am - 3.30 pm Woodside Halls, Glenfarg Street, Glasgow G20 7QR FREE ADMISSION * FREE ON-STREET PARKING * FREE FIZZY WATER * DISABLED ACCESS * EASY TO REACH BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT Dealers standing: fairs early and receiving trade discount. Right: at £6, it would be tempting to turn up your nose at this apparently not very interesting card as being too expensive. But you’d be wrong! Valentine & Sons of Dundee printed just four scenes of Baffin's Pond at Copnor, in Portsmouth, and so far I've only tracked down two of them. The price tag is just about right Third of the pier trio is this Cribb-published postcard - and what a superb card it is! Photographed some time during the First World War, it shows wounded servicemen being entertained on the pier by the Southsea Sea Angling Society. There's just so much to look at in this picture. Cost? £35, but I think even the newest recruit to collecting can see the difference between this card and the other two Gareth Burgess, Dunbar John Cumming, Glasgow Anthony Duda, Helensburgh Stuart Marshall, East Kirkbride Chad Neighbor, Montrose Richard Stenlake, Ochiltree Frank Tonelli/Cornucopia, Dundee George Waugh, Glasgow plus any surprise last-minute bookings... Finally, this is where a collector can help out a dealer - by identifying a card. This is BA Gale's Premier Penny Bazaar at 175 Commercial Road, Portsmouth. On the wall are painted the words "& at Southampton". However, another card turns up with a double-fronted shop, and no clue to which city it's in. As I write this, there's one on Ebay, marked "Portsmouth Southampton", which is how dealers often mark this card. It's Southampton. Soon after these pictures were taken, Marks and Spencer opened up penny bazaars very close to Bertram Gale's shops in both places, and Gale then became a photographer. The card, incidentally, was printed for the company Enquiries: Richard Stenlake tel. 01290 551122 (daytime) e-mail rstenlake@stenlake.co.uk Picture Postcard Monthly December 2009 15
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