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Are Postcards About Sanatorium And Tuberculosis Hospitals Interesting For Collectors?

 
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Posted 11/01/2024   04:05 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add sopotsopot to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I once accidentally bought a collection of old American postcards. These are over 130 cards from 1900-1940. All with the motif of a sanatorium or tuberculosis hospital. Can such a collection (as a whole) be interesting for buyers?
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Posted 11/01/2024   04:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
On my travels, I bought well over a hundred Labello/Liposan/Nivea lip balms for a colleague who collected those. When I am abroad and see a chemist's or pharmacy, I pop in to look for the display with those things and take a picture to send her, so she can tell me if there is anything of interest for her. She and a German girl have many hundreds of those lip balms. There is a community of these girls. Some individuals who have a dozen post their 'collection' online.

Bottom line: there are collectors for almost everything and (almost) every collection will be interesting to someone. The problem, usually, is finding those people as they might be hiding on parts of the web you do not venture onto.

There are a lot of people working in healthcare or in the pharmaceutical industry. Some may also be collectors.The odds are someone will be interested in your postcards.
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Posted 11/02/2024   12:34 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Everything is collected by someone.
I have several postcards showing sanitoriums (or sanitariums), hospitals, etc., but they were obtained because they "fit" into larger collections of a specific city or publisher; or had some interesting stamp, cancel, message or other postal history facet unrelated to the view. I sense the demand for these is likely to be more geographic than for the specific topic.
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Posted 01/17/2025   5:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Francois89170 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi
of course they are
But usually it's easier to sell them one by one on a given topic

best
Francois

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