What kind of postcards do you collect? 

Is there a place in Italy (or somewhere else) that you like?

Are there themes in postcards that you try to find?

Is there an artist, illustrator, photographer, or publisher of postcards that you collect?

Do you have a postcard that you can't identify?

Post your interests and your questions here.  I'll try to help, and others who read this blog are welcome to help, too.

Italy holds a fascination for me.  I travel there, especially to Tuscany, about once a year.  Next trip is scheduled for October 2006, keeping fingers crossed!

Looking through vintage and antique Italian postcards is a way of traveling through time and space when the money is a little tighter than the travel budget allows. 

Italian postcards historically have been high quality, and there are some fine artisanal publishers throughout Italy, like Nanni Gadenz, Foto Ghedina, and Chiavari Civicchioni.  I especially like real photograph post cards (vera fotographia) from the period 1900-1960 in black and white.