The Philatelic Database - Stamp Archive

American “Great White Fleet” Postcards of 1908

Richard Breckon. The American fleet arrives at the head of Port Phillip Bay on its Melbourne leg in 1908. The eight postcards issued in 1908 to commemorate the visit of America's "Great White Fleet" have a special fascination for collectors. These cards feature ...

Postcards of the United States: Bank Street, Wallace, Idaho (1909)

William Cochrane. This charming hand-coloured picture postcard depicts the Bank Street in Wallace, Idaho. Note the women in full-length dresses, hats and gloves. The telegraph poles appear to be a recent addition. The scene for a western movie...

Queensland Card Collectors Society

The Queensland Card Collectors Society is "a club of approx. 100 members who collect postcards, trade cards and cigarette cards. Membership is mainly from within the state of Queensland but also includes people in most of the other states of ...

West Australian Postcard Club

The West Australian Postcard Club interests cover "most paper ephemera including cigarette, playing and Trade cards, menus, sheet music, coasters, calenders, etc., but postcards are the primary interest. We have a magazine called Topics which ...

Arizona Post Card Club

The Arizona Post Card Club is a non-profit organization. It's purpose is to "promote interest in postcard collecting (deltiology) by encouraging the study, preservation and exhibition of postcards and related material; to cultivate mutual friendship and assistance among collectors, students ...

Postcard.org

Postcard.org is a San Francisco based deltiological (postcard collecting) club whose mission is "to foster and promote postcard collecting in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and the World".

New South Wales Postcard Collectors Society

The New South Wales Postcard Collectors Society formed in 1980 when "a small group of enthusiasts comprising collectors and antique dealers banded together to share their hobby of postcard collecting. Early meetings were held above the art gallery of Josef ...

Postcard.co.uk

Postcard.co.uk aims to supply information on all aspects of postcards to a wider ...

WWI - Belgium Armoured Car Division in Russia

Michael Barden. In August 1914, Belgian Lieutenant Charles Henkart, put his two armoured Minerva cars at the Army's disposal. Cockerill & Co (Engineers) in Hoboken had added some armour plating and a Hotchkiss machine gun to each as shown below. Despite ...

An 1890 NSW Postcard

David Benson and Russell W. Stern. David Benson came across a 1890 NSW 1d. postcard which he thought might be an interesting item for recording in the New South Wales Philatelist. The front and reverse of the postcard are illustrated in ...

Washington Crossing Card Collectors Club

Washington Crossing Card Collectors Club, also referred to as WC4, is dedicated to deltiology, or the hobby of postcard collecting.

Invercargill Post Office, New Zealand, 1908

Deltiologist

A picture postcard collector.

Montage

Usually a picture postcard bearing stamps, which have been cut up and can then stuck down to form the design or picture.

Magic Card

A picture postcard, which reveals the picture when heat or friction is applied.

R.M.S. Homeric

William Cochrane. Having always had a love of ships and naval history, I suppose, as a philatelist, it was only a matter of time before I developed an interest into maritime postal history. Like many philatelic pursuits it has become ...

Postcard: White Star Liner “Suevic”

The SS SUEVIC was the fifth of the Jubilee-class liners built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast specifically for the White Star Line Australian run. She was launched on December 8, 1900, and set sail on her maiden voyage to ...

Bananas and Earthquakes in Jamaica

William Cochrane. Given the cost of bananas in Australia at present, I was fascinated by this recently acquired Jamaican postcard. It was written in early 1925 and addressed to a young man in New Zealand. It bears an interesting slogan: COME TO ...

Rhodesia: A Tale of Two Postcards

Sean Burke. At a meeting of the RPSV in April, Paul Peggie gave a talk and displayed over 60 items of early Northern Rhodesian missionary mail. The following two cards were part of that display:

The Royal Australian Navy in Zanzibar

William Cochrane. Recently I was in a country bookshop and looking through a shoebox of old postcards. I started going through it, examining the reverse sides of the cards looking for any stamps of interest. Most stamps had been removed, but ...