Antique Teddy Bear Post Cards In Color - Volume 1

Cumberlan, Maryland, Usa: Hobby House Press, Inc., 1985. Soft cover. As New. As New, Alll Unused Postcards - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges and/or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Vintage 1985 - From The Collection of Beverly Port HUNTING THE TEDDY BEAR POSST CARD Post cards with Teddy Bears or dressed and humanized bears are one of the harder to find categories in post card collecting and with the further rise in Teddy Bear interest, the prices of these cards have soared. They are also becoming much scarcer than before. Why are they so scarce? Post cards are collected by thousands of collectors in a multitude of categories. Some who do not collect other bear or Teddy Bear items or even the bears themselves do have a bear post card collection. Others collect post cards for the stamps or post- marks, not really caring about the pictures on the other side. Then too, while the golden age of post cards and Teddy Bears coincided for a time in the early 1900s, there were far less Teddy Bear post cards produced in relation to the millions and millions printed on other subjects by the different post card companies of the era. Also, they were fragile - paper is the most perishable collectible. Generally, the early cards depicted the bear more as a real bear and evolved gradually, with the jointed Teddy Bear toy bear taking precedence.