Presentación
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Los coleccionistas norteamericanos de
tarjetas postales han dado en llamar “DELTIOLOGY” (sin traducción al
idioma español hasta el presente), y dicen que es “el nombre formal en los
Estados Unidos para coleccionar tarjetas postales”.
The Latin American collectors, we call it “CARTOFILIA”, also without translation to the Spanish language. Those “deltiologistas” North Americans say that their hobby occupies the third place in the world inside those “collectable”, solely overcome by the numismatists (coins) and philatelists (stamps). And making justice adds that collecting the topics of the baseball of the United States, in spite of being very big, they consider it a national hobby, not worldwide. Call it like they want to call, collecting old postcards for the Latin Americans has become our days in a contagious liking to try to recover something of our history that one has come losing with the step of the time. Praiseworthy task that would correspond to carry out to the cultural departments of our governments, taken charge natural of the maintenance of our artistic and cultural patrimonies. This observation, this necessity and our vocation for these beautiful small printed history pieces in a bristol board, they have made that proud VIEJASPOSTCARDS.COM is born, proud not only for what all new activity means, but to be the first one in filling a hole in the international spectrum. Of now in more, the Latin American postcards will occupy a preponderant place in the world of the postcards. We have stopped to form part of that group minimumly called Rest of the World, or Foreign Postcards... |