Collecting postcards is a fascinating hobby

How many people, so many different hobbies. Someone collects badges, someone statues or antiques, and there are people who like to collect postcards. Collecting postcards is called a filocarty. For some, this activity is a very fascinating hobby. Even in spite of the fact that today practically no postcards are used, this hobby does not lose popularity.

When there were postcards

Postcards appeared in the distant 1870. At the very beginning of their existence they looked very ordinary, as now stationery forms. But 20 years passed and the world saw the first greeting card. Dedicated to the first examples of such holidays as Christmas and Easter.

The man who sent the first greeting card was called Henry Quoli. It seemed to him that it was too difficult to send a letter to congratulate relatives, and he decided to just write their names and congratulations on the card on which the Christmas tree was adorned. A little time passed, and his idea fell to the taste of a large number of Englishmen and the cards began to be popular, they disperse around the world.

Initially, the postcards were drawn, but in the first half of the 20th century, with the advent of the camera, they became photographic. In the same XX century and there was a fashion for filocarty. In the 60-70s of the last century it became popular to collect postcards with photos of famous actresses, and in the 1990s it changed and collect cards with pictures of dogs and cats.

The popularity of the filocarty

The postcard passed a very long and rather fascinating way. At the time of their appearance, people still did not know that collecting postcards is called a filocarty. They have found their application in various scientific works, they illustrate school textbooks, and also often organize special exhibitions that are held all over the world.

The first illustrated cards were called species maps. They are very popular today. They depict various cities from around the world, as well as their main attractions. Such postcards used to be for people as cognitive, because the Internet and access to a lot of information appeared not so long ago.

Emotional, having their own character and mood, cheerful postcards appeared relatively recently. Collecting postcards of this nature quickly gained popularity. The authors of modern cards show imagination, drawing them with confessions about love, jokes and even with their own heroes. For example, a character like Little Shea is known all over the world.

Collecting postcards, the prices of which reach astronomical values, also attracts a lot of people. Today the most expensive famous postcard was bought at auction in England, its cost was 22 thousand pounds sterling. But, of course, can not be more expensive than a card for the soul, than from a loved one. She will give love and kindness.

Collecting postcards of the USSR

In the Soviet Union issued stamped and unmarked cards, they left a place for gluing the brand. At some amateurs one can meet such collectible cards, on which stamps are pasted on the front side by mistake, they are especially appreciated and are considered a great rarity. Especially those where the brand, which has an incorrect layout, is printed in the printing house. One of the most famous such postcards of the USSR is the one on which the experimental car "Hadi-7" is depicted.

Many in the Union issued greeting cards for public holidays, with an anniversary or with congratulations on his birthday. At modern collectors it is the most widespread and fashionable kind of cards. They cost low, within 20-50 rubles for one piece. But if the specimen is very rare, its value can be much higher.

Types of postcards

Postcards can be divided into these types:

- Congratulatory - takes the main place among those used for congratulations with any holiday, anniversary, celebration.

- Species - produced in large series, they depict various professions, sports, folk festivals, city landscapes.

- Reproduction - images on such postcards - reproductions of paintings.

- Artistic - it is released serially. Helps to get acquainted with the work of some unknown artists.

- Advertising - it infects advertising information about a café or company.

- Historical-event - depicts either significant or tragic events that occurred in the past.

- Political - depicts political figures of the past and the present, the party, the organization.

- Patriotic - the most popular postcard during the Great Patriotic War, raising the spirit of citizens.

- Photo postcard - has a photo of a city or landscape on the front side. That can be any number.

- Business - appeared recently, they are designed to congratulate employees, business partners.

Collecting artistic photographic postcards

This is a very interesting kind of collecting. Such postcards usually depict pictures of not only unknown artists, but even famous ones. Artistic photographic cards can have a fairly high price for collectors. There are times when, thanks to such a postcard, people recognize the work of a previously not popular artist, and he becomes quite famous.

Collection storage

This issue is of great importance. It depends on the rapid availability of the required postcards, as well as safety, because usually collectors have a lot of postcards.

That they do not deteriorate, there are 3 main ways of storage: landscape, filing, in envelopes. Each method has its pros and cons, but all of them are used by collectors.

Collecting postcards even today does not lose its popularity.