Barber shops – Global Postcard Sales

Total: 16 postcards

Alfresco Barber Shop
Unused card, clearly a Chinese location but otherwise unidentified as to where. Grade: 3

Code: 37400001
Price: $1.00
Barber shop
Two of these unused Malaysian “Sepia Collection” barber shop postcards SP-006 are available. One is Grade: 1 ($2) and the other just slightly less good (Grade: 2, $1).

Code: 37400002
Price: $1.00
Old barber shop in Taiwan
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 37400003
Price: $4.00
Wellington Moses Barbershop, Barkerville (Canada)
The unused card’s caption explains the (true) story behind this display in British Columbia. Grade: 2

Code: 37400004
Price: $1.00
Black & white
This 5-1/2″ x 8″ card has a very long caption in Chinese, so it may or may not have been made in Malaysia but it was mailed from there in 2013, with two large stamps (one of them cancelled) and Butterworth postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 37400005
Price: $3.00
The Trusty Guide
Mailed from the USA in 2013 with four stamps (one not cancelled) and heavy, blurred postmark. Minor abrasions all around. Grade: 3

Code: 37400006
Price: $2.00
Portugal
There’s plenty of information on the back of this card to guarantee it is a Portuguese scene. Mailed (from Portugal) in 2013, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 37400007
Price: $3.00
The barbershop. Ghana 1973 (C. Higgins, Jr.)
Mailed from Canada in 2014. The stamp is there, with bilingual Air Mail label, but no postmark at all. Grade: 4

Code: 37400008
Price: $1.00
Blossom Restaurant (New York City)
Perforated upper edge (so this came from a set) on a contemporary card with a 1936 photo but mailed in 2014. There’s a round Global Forever stamp, and postmark; with postal abrasions on the back. Grade: 3

Code: 37400009
Price: $1.00
Dordrecht railway barber shop (Netherlands)
A postcard of an historical (1925) barber shop which was moved to the Dutch Railway Museum. Card mailed in 2014, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 37400010
Price: $4.00
Williamsburg, The Barber and Peruke Maker’s Shop (Virginia, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 2B-H76. Wondering what a peruke is? Look no further: a wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries. (That’s about right for Williamsburg.) Grade: 1

Code: 37400011
Price: $2.00
Mt. Airy, Floyd’s City Barber Shop (North Carolina, USA)
We unaccountably opened “barber shop postcards” as a theme category long ago, not yet realising how hard they were to find. Well, hard for us, anyway. Here’s a nice one, unused. Grade: 1

Code: 37400012
Price: $2.00
Texas Prison System (USA) (not a postcard)
This is not a postcard. It’s a B&W photograph with nothing on the reverse. But we list it here because (A) we have it, and (B) we don’t have all that many barber shop postcards. If this were a postcard, it would be Grade: 1, but it’s not, so it’s ungraded.

Code: 37400013
Price: $1.00
Quebec City (Canada)
Nicely atmospheric view — and barbershop cards can be hard to find — on a card mailed long ago with 4-cent stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 37400014
Price: $5.00
A “Short Cut” into the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center (Texas, USA)
He looks more afraid of the haircut than he does of learning to fly. The unused card dates from 1943 and has been heavily handled over the years, but it’s intact. By the way, the caption tells us this particular style is called “The Classification Clip”. Grade: 3

Code: 37400015
Price: $9.00
Life is just one damn thing after another (USA)
If ever an old postcard was suitable for framing, this one would head the list. As great as it is on the front, it turns out to be an unused ad card for something called “Ess Tee Dee (STD) Stops the Dandruff” from a Chicago company, for a product to be used in barber shops. Similar cards that we found online (we couldn’t resist) describe this as a scalp food. Grade: 1

Code: 37400016
Price: $6.00

Total: 16 postcards