Selling Ephemera on eBay: Paper Stuff Worth Big Money 

A friend found a postcard of the orphanage my grandmother had lived in for 10 years. I cried! It is priceless to me.

I've been selling ephemera on eBay for close to twenty years. A few categories that do really well are vintage restaurant menus (collected for nostalgic reasons)...and sheet music. Antique photographs and photo albums do extremely well too.

I LOVE SELLING EPHEMRA . People are too into hard goods. I love selling local vintage restaurant stuff (menus, napkins, postcards, matches,) . I cannot tell you how many times I have sales from "my grandfather owned that bar / diner / restaurant". The best part is so much of it costs VERY LITTLE. I also love selling diaries , filled out by teens in the 1960s , 1970s, 1980s.

I recently sold an old Australian telegram for $27 plus shipping back to Australia! It was from the early 1950's and had torn areas where it had been folded. It wasn't anything of real importance, it was regarding a job opportunity, but the old graphics were quite nice. I found it in a book I bought from the Thrift store!

After watching the Auction Professor and your videos it has pushed me on a path in reselling that I had no idea was a niche in collectibles. I absolutely love ephemeral goods, old handwritten letters, etc like you said it’s history. I hated history in high school, lol now I’m 48 years old with my magnifying lens going through a ton of historical postcards I bid on and Ive hit a spark in me... thanks to RU-vid and the videos! Great video 😊

Paper ephemera is not only for collectors, it's for ppl in the art community. I sell old paper and different types of ephemera on etsy and a little on ebay, to ppl who make ATCs, Mixed Media art, Junk journals, Smash books, Collage and more. It's an excellent market but a saturated one too. Great video, glad I saw it! TFS ~ L

I like the history ephemera provides. It can help fill in the blanks historically and open our minds and eyes to things we never knew of.

Ugh! My husband worked with a coin dealer/pawn broker and someone brought in a TON of those little Victorian cards. He said they threw them away because, "No one would want them." 😭😭😭 *I did cry when he told me weeks later...

Huge thanks Suzanne, i was exactly looking for this video in order to sell mines, i always love your videos

This is great! I've been hearing tidbits about this idea. Your video is very helpful.

Thanks Suzanne A.Wells, great information, may your blessings be more uplifting 💚

Thanks Suzanne. Very interesting what all you can sell. Now everyone will start looking in old boxes from their Grandparents etc. Its fun to look at them also. I have several items from my dad and his dad's furniture store. Thanks again.

Yup. I sold several ephemera pieces. Currently have an old catalogue from a saddle manufacturer listed for $$$. And of course ephemera happily lead me down the research rabbit hole. Always fun.

Thank you, Suzanne, for sharing! It is so appreciated.

When I first saw the title I thought it said “ Spelling” ephemera. 🤣More coffee please... thanks for another great video!

First time watcher. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with all of us. Great content!

great video lots of good information thanks Suzanne!

Wow I'm so glad I found U this is exactly what ive been looking for ! Thanx

Well, I just love this video! Great content, thank you!

Thank you, so informative! Wish you a Great business !

The stack of railroad invoices... look at the awesome penmanship and calligraphy on it- 😍

Thanks so much! Great information

So all those old ticket stubs I saved from the 70s might be actually worth something? I have a cigar box full of them. I also have a bunch of old newspapers from the 1930s and earlier that I found in an old suitcase when I was a kid. Still have them and tried to donate them to the local college historical research years ago and they didn't want them. Just not sure how to handle them or display. Some are very fragile.

I just sold a very old church meeting leaflet for $20, it was in the rubbish.

I have a bunch of old magazines that I got out of storage recently. They were from the personal collection of a wonderful lady I knew growing up. There are SO many of them! I would like to sell some but one of my main concern is how to ship them safely either whole or pieced out by auto ad, etc. I can't seem to find much online about this which surprised me.

WOW! Love this video. Can you elaborate on old photos?

I found in my attic a post card from 1909 Cobbs and Honas shaking hands at the world series for 1200 bucks. .. i couldn't believe it. I should had kept it now that I think about.. juat because there hasn't been many found.. and not that many were made..

Thanks for the video 🤓

Suzanne, I think you misread the completed auction listing quantity. All formats completed listings were >9,500. Completed auction listings were >5,000. Over 50% were auctions if I read that correctly. Great video - I love ephemera :)

I purchased what I believe to be a CORTLAND Homer and McGrawville 1916 Directory book..."Like a summer ago" LOL Haven't listed it yet and when I saw your episode on Ephemera, I thought it might fall into this category. Any advice on how to research? Thanks!

I was going through a plastic tub my oldest daughter packed from my grandmothers estate. I found a giant scrapbook for post cards with probably 100 cards. the postage stamps and post office stamps are dated clear back to 1908 so far maybe earlier I haven't gone through them all. I'm wondering how to ship cheaper than the $3.80 or $4.40 E bay says

Love emphemera, but struggling to find the best way to organize it so that packaging orders is easier than my current method.

My eldest daughter is 35 and has trouble reading cursive and telling the TIME ON A REGULAR CLOCK!!!!

It is hard to find stuff in the internet to know what is rare or learning the artist to sell these.. I did sell a few thanks to eBay sold area, some of the same ones sell for more than others , I wonder if it is because one person might not know it’s worth

I collect old cereal boxes !

Trade cards were like advertising business cards....

Did I miss the link to the course?

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17:55 ... if you want to get rid of a girlfriend the best thing to do is write down all sorts of criticism of her in a diary/journal and leave it out in the open. she'll find it and look for anything you have written about her and bingo. problem solved.

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Funny how they don't teach cursive writing except how to sign their names in it.

I never knew it was called ephemera? Ephemera may be the key word I’m lacking in my search of the 1918 Red Sox Ruth photo-ephemera. It’s funny but I feel like a tit that I haven Heard the word ephemera attached to my hobby lol but I have never done the photo thing like this in the past so I have a kind of pass on this one. Anyway please help me. I also love beautiful handwriting and it’s a shame there don’t teach cursive anymore it’s an everyday art form. I can’t read cursive lol that is just sad. It’s funny but a lot of the younger generation can only read Digital text it’s sad. I also have Victorian trade cards,baseball cap anson

Sad!!! can't write or read script 😖😖😖