Stormywiz

Long gone are the days of the Golden Age of Postcards! The days when old fashioned newsstands, street vendors, and souvenir shops commonly exchanged printed goods for spare change. The times when you could simply reach into the wool lining of your coat pocket, uncover a shiny nickel, and exchange it for three freshly printed postcards of your choic... e. While those days are behind us, the nostalgic yearn for historic snapshots, lithography, and the artistic décor emblematic of those times still tugs at our heartstrings. In our shop, you will still find many of these vintage postcards in all sorts and varieties. Some of them will even be in the pristine shape with which they were once displayed. Think of us as an online postcard kiosk, where long-treasured memories of an era gone by, are still very much alive! Our journey begins inside an early 1900s estate in Alachua County, Florida. There, inside an antiquated bookcase, sits a leather-bound album. It is colorfully decorated and etched with two words: Post Cards. It once belonged to a local farmer who would collect cards that pictorially depicted his travels throughout the Southeastern US. Fast forward to the 90s, as were perusing through an antique shop, we find that very same album laid out in an area consigned with vintage ephemera. Having never seen such niftily organized cards, we conversed with the shop owner as he explained the origins of his finding. At that moment, we became postcard collectors. Throughout the years, weve spoken to many collectors, historians, authors, and enthusiasts who recount their stories of how they got started. Stories of entering into this hobby out of happenstance, intrigue, or in search of reconnecting with a piece of the past. It's these stories that grow our ambition for deltiology and inspired us to open an online store named Stormywiz. In 1999, with only a few thousand cards in inventory, we founded our company with a long-term objective of sharing our passion with collectors worldwide. Today, we have grown to amass tens ...Read More