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Posted By: davidcycleback

With vintage autograph collectors, autographed postally used Government Postcards are desirable. For those who don't know what a GPC looks like, it's just like a boring 3x5 index card except one side has the postal printing and, if used, the stamp and postmark. The postmark shows when the autograph and/or note was placed on the card. If you have a 1953 postmarked Ted Williams autograph, you still will want to make sig isn't secretarial, but you can be confident the handwriting is from 1953 ... Further, being able to date a Ted Williams signature to 1953 increases the value as his earlier signature will be more desirable than, say, an index card signed when he was 77.

Whether it's a 1975 GPC or a 1909 picture postcard, a postmark means the card was officially dated by the Federal Government-- and I don't see why that would be a detrimental thing