Boy Scout Postcards

United States

More than one hundred thousand different Boy Scout postcards have been published just in the United States.  It is highly unlikely that any one person or organization can ever accumulate them all.  The main purpose of this site is to provide information to help the beginning as well as the advanced collector focus on building a truly unique, personal, and interesting collection.  The author decided decades ago that with so many cards to choose from, he could not learn everything about all of them,

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and he certainly could not afford to buy all of them, so he began to specialize and narrow his collection.  Recognizing the need to do so is the first step to becoming a true collector and not just an accumulator.

Second: begin to categorize all available items.
     (What follows is but one way!)