APS Guidelines for Exhibiting Postcards

The American Philatelic Society (APS) includes postcard exhibits as a class of exhibiting. As with any exhibit, the key is to tell a story in the exhibit. It is not enough to show every postcard ever made about a certain topic but the exhibit must have a storyline. The exhibit must also show the exhibitor's knowledge of the chosen subject but also of the postcards themselves referring to artists, photographers, publishers, series, production methods etc.

The APS guidelines for postcard exhibits can be found on the APS website.

Currently, the APS is introducing a new judging handbook and Uniform Exhibit Evaluation Form so there may be some revisions to this information in the coming months.

The American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors (AAPE) provides further information about postcard exhibiting as well as some examples of postcards exhibits.

My Collecting Interests

There are many ways to collect postcards: by subject, by publisher, by artist...

My collecting interests include postcards depicting hunting and fishing lodges in Nova Scotia and postcards of communities in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia.

This is one of my favourite postcards:

A Place to Start

I have been collecting postcards for many years and have struggled to find out about the history of the cards and the companies which produced them. In an attempt to pull all these resources together, I have started this blog. I welcome suggestions of links from other postcard collectors.

I am going to try to provide links to information on the Internet about postcards history and identification, to clubs dedicated to collecting postcards, to the American Philatelic Society postcard exhibiting information as well as to results of exhibitions and to postcard exhibits available on-line.

I am not associated with any postcard dealers and while I may provide links to websites of dealers I do not receive any compensation for providing these links.