How to Date Old French Postcards (Cartes Postales anciennes): (Black and White version)

by Phil Watson

Do you collect old French postcards (Cartes Postales anciennes)? Do you want to date them more accurately? This book will help you do just that. The first section looks at the different features of postcards, especially the backs, which can help to identify when a postcard was printed. In section two the cards issued by seventeen different French editors of postcards are analysed to create editorial sequences; these allow their cards to be slotted into specific time frames. This is a methodology which can be used by collectors to build similar sequences for editors in their own collections. The final section looks at French stamps and postal rates and quickly allows you to identify when postally used cards with illegible dates were sent. This is the only detailed study of the typology of French postcards of the 1890s to 1940s in English.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980627592
• ISBN13: 9781980627593
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.6" x 8.5"