Hello everyone!  Things have been a little busy for me lately.  But, despite that, the database is now close to 1900 records , and I am past NT1500.  So, that’s all good.  And I do regularly keep track of auctions online, one of which caught my eye this week.

I think I have seen this card, NT0594, for sale on eBay only once before…and it had a pin hole in it from being tacked to a wall.  Never-the-less, that card went for a respectable price at the time.  So, when this one came up this week, I figured it was going to end on a high note.  And sure enough, it did!

What is interesting is how slow stuff like this starts.  Up until earlier today, the card was sitting at below $20.  But the snipers were lurking!  It’s as if no one wants to show any interest in hopes the card has slipped under the radar.  But, the Disney postcard collector is not so easily fooled!  Several were watching (including me…but I already have the aforementioned card with pin-hole) and in the end there were six bids from six different bidders.

There is currently another auction for a lot of cards that includes NT0541…it’s  already over $100, so it will be interesting to see where that all ends up.

Until next time…

Greetings…I hope this post finds all of you enjoying the end of a relaxing Saturday!

As I mentioned last week, I had purchased a Gray Line Tour postcard booklet in hopes that it would solve the mystery of the serrated edges on most of the copies of NT1168 and NT1168a that I have in my collection.  Today I received the booklet that I found on eBay this week, and sure enough, there they are!

The back of these cards are brownish black, and among the 20 images in the set are the two cards that you would expect…NT1168 of Sleeping Beauty’s castle, and NT1168a of the Mark Twain.  By the looks of it, this is a later booklet, probably from the early 1970’s, maybe a little earlier.  And since there are blue back variations of these cards out there, I suspect they come from another, possibly earlier, booklet.

As an aside, I am pretty sure I have non-serrated versions of these cards in my collection (and they appear as un-serrated cards on Disneylandpostcards.net).  I would have to dig around a little bit in order to find mine.  At the end of the day, there probably should be two variants for each of these cards. (Blue back – from a booklet and not from a booklet, and brown back – same variations).  If you have both variations of both cards, please comment below…that would be useful information and close this question completely!

Until next time…

When you spend enough time with these cards…or really any postcards I imagine…you start to see things that you don’t see at first glance, or even after several glances.  This is especially true when you spend time scanning the cards and seeing them blown up on the computer screen.

These details are everywhere…and today, I thought I would point out one that I stumbled across the other night.  NT0247 is a night view of the City Hall and Fire Station with a fire engine in front and a few folks milling about (actually quite a few if you look very closely.)  It’s a great night shot with the buildings outlined in light bulbs.

Looking closely at the lower right though, there is a detail that you might not expect…half of the Bekins moving carriage!  It is resting in front of a billboard with some attraction posters on it (more on this in a moment).  I thought this detail was pretty interesting because I don’t think that the Bekins moving sponsorship at the park lasted too terribly long.  So, you can effectively use this to date the photo to within some time frame.  (I could not find any ready information on when the Bekins carriage was at the park…I am sure someone out there knows.)

Getting back to the billboard that is visible in NT0247, it’s hard to tell exactly what poster is there in the dark on.  However, if we go to NT0249 we get another detail that is related to the billboard by the Fire Dept.  Zooming in on it we see see the billboard with another poster on it (probably not the same one shown in NT0247.)  It’s an early Matterhorn poster!  This hidden detail would put this photo at sometime during or after 1959.

I can easily see spending a pile of time just looking at the cards blown up on the computer.  There is quite a bit more to look at when you do this.  So, I will be sure to post on more “Hidden Details” going forward.

Until next time…

P.S.  You get a much better look at the Bekins carriage in a number of other cards…NT0246 among them.