Collecting, Buying and Selling Vintage Letters and Postcards

I have been buying and selling vintage paper items such as old letters, vintage photographs, vintage postcards and ephemera paper items since 1999. Letter writing seems like it is becoming a lost art now that email and social networking are such popular ways to communicate, but it is not lost to me.

When I go to auctions and estate sales to buy letters and paper items by the box, usually from the 1940's and earlier, it is like Christmas to come home and read through them. I have literally hundreds of them from the WWII era, and have been working through a fascinating batch from the 1920's. You step back in time as you read them, imagining the times, the clothing the writers were wearing, what the furniture must have looked like in the room where they sat, what the car must have been like that they drove...it's so much fun.

Re-selling the letters is also fun, and easy to do as many love old correspondence just as much as I do. And once I've taken the time to work through the letters, I can sell them with more information about them, and what they contain, than when I purchased them, all jumbled together in a large box. I can't keep them all, just read them and enjoy them, perhaps scan a couple favorites, and then they are sold at auction, most often on eBay.

I hope you know a bit more about buying and selling vintage paper items when you leave this page, and enjoy viewing the items shown on this page.

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