Certain topographical postcards are of necessity much less common than others, examples being one-off events such as disasters, military parades, royal visits.
It stands to reason, a church that changed little over hundreds of years could be depicted on thousands of different days and rarely changed from one resulting postcard to the next. But if that church has a royal visit, lasting ten minutes, or someone very famous stands waiting for the bus for just five minutes outside the church and never visits this area again, these are the makings of rare cards for anyone fortunate enough to photograph or otherwise depict the scene (as a drawing or painting from memory, for example).
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Why What One Person Considers A Rare Postcard May Not Be A Rare Postcard At All
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