Santa Claus Is Checkered

Smoking Blue Santa Claus Postcard

Collecting Santa Claus postcards has been and still is sooo enjoyable for me.  These days, I look for an unusual feature in the antique or vintage postcard with him on it.

These unusual features can add $5 to $10 or more to the postcard’s value depending on how unique and scarce it is.  The features I look for include, but are not limited to:

• switches
• odd transportation (like the motor boat Santa I blogged about recently)
• balloons
• teddy bears
• different colored suits
• smoking (especially upside down pipes)
• donkeys (a favorite), and
• golliwoggs

The postcard to the right isn’t from my personal postcard collection (alas, bills beckoned), but illustrates what one could look for when building an outstanding collection.  It shows a blue suited Santa Claus smoking, plus wearing checkered boots.  In over 35 years of collecting Santa Claus’, I’ve never seen him wearing checkered boots.

Note, the Santa Claus on my store’s home page  is holding a switch.  It is from my personal collection and a favorite.  I also have a midgit Santa Claus postcard, but that is for another blog post.

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