Welcome

Welcome to Shiloh Postcard’s premier website.  We offer investment quality antique postcards for the advanced collector. You will also find educational articles on different postcard categories, artists, historical events and special collections.  We suggest you bookmark this page,  sign up for emails announcing new articles or like us on Face Book to receive article updates.

Investment quality postcards are cards whose scarcity, historical significance, beauty and condition will cause their prices to rise significantly over time.  In the past it was hard for such cards to be found and purchased by individual collectors but thanks to the internet the entire world is the new marketplace. Discover how postcards captured the tragic St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928–1929, offering a rare glimpse into this pivotal moment in California history. Postcards of the 1928–1929 St. Francis Dam Disaster

We have have been in the postcard business since 1980 and selling cards via the web since 1998. You can view our eBay feedback rating at our Ebay Auctions where you will find many other cards offered.

Shiloh Postcards is owned and operated by Vickie Leach Prater.  Vickie is the author of two localized postcard image books on Macon, Georgia and Rabun County, Georgia .  Both of these books can be purchased online through our eBay store and we will gladly sign them for you.

If you are new to Deltiology (postcard collecting), you will find our Brief History of Postcards a good starting place to learn more.