Do you consider yourself a postcard collector?
If you think you’re serious about collecting postcards, think again! Introducing… Mary L. Martin, Postcard Collector to the Extreme!
This amazing lady from Perryville, Maryland, USA has a postcard collection that numbers not only by the hundreds, definitely not by the thousands, but by the millions!
Started forty years ago, her huge collection features postcards from the past and present, from celebrities and ordinary people, from every city, every town, and every country, and just about anything you can think of.
Here’s a two-minute video of Mary and her Perryville postcard shop as featured in WBAL’s Rob’s Attic by Rob Roblin:
If you want to check out more about Mary L. Martin and her postcard collection, visit her official site at http://www.marylmartin.com. Millions of postcards are also for sale in this website.
Mary L. Martin Postcards is the largest postcard shop in the whole world. If you and your Postcrossing buddies live near or around Perryville, Maryland, this shop is a good place for a meetup. If you guys are from somewhere else, this destination is an interesting idea for a Postcrossing field-trip!
16 comments so far
So cool!!!:)))I think I will be like her when I getting older..:))Thanks a lot for this nice post!!
It's totally amazing!!! :D
I would be all about attending a meet-up in Perrysville! This is about an hour from my house. Shoot me a messege if you, too, are interested in creating a get-together! Cheers,
Sailor
Looks like THE ultimate postcard website! And I thought I had a big collection! Wonder how long it would take to scan all their cards?!
AMAZING!!! 8)
Wow! Great great job!!!
Wow, she definitely has some $$ in those cards.
And I thought I was getting too many with under a thousand cards. Any time my husband complains I can just show him this website.
My collection is definately no where near her collection, I wish I lived in Maryland...maybe once I'm a little older, I'll open my own store! :D
I'm up for a road trip to Maryland!! ;-)
She has my dream job.
I love it when people's passions turn into their job. How fun
Holy cow!! Amazing!! I would love her job..I wonder how much business she actually gets though?
i went there today!
I wonder how to send her a card to make it be stored forever.
Great! Crazy! Oh, God... :D
Amazing!!! This grandmother is real collector!!! =)
O_____O Speechless!
I wonder if the lady has postcards from Bharat,Brunei, Czech, Indonesia, East Timor and Malaysia.