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 Frequently Asked Questions
What is an E-Image? TOP An E-Image is an image that is sent electronically via Email. Please always make sure that your address book is updated with our address and that your firewall settings can accept attachments. How long does it take to receive my E-Image? TOP Under normal work schedules, we try to send your E-Image within 2-3 calendar days. There are times when we may send it out to you sooner. Sometimes, during a very heavy schedule, it may take 4 days. However, that is rare. We do not work on Sundays as we reserve that day for worship and family. We appreciate your kind consideration and understanding. Where did you find such beautiful images? TOP I started collecting old postcards and ephemera when I was a little girl in Maine. I was always fascinated by the art of these gorgeous old postcards. I took art classes when I was 9 years old and realized the incredible talent of Catherine Klein and DeLongpre and became fascinated by their work - To me, buying or collecting these postcards was like finding miniature works of art. I also was very blessed to inherit an extensive collection of antique postcards from my beloved Mum and Aunt Ruthie. My beloved Mum had received so many beautiful postcards while my beloved Daddy was in the war in Germany and she saved every one. Fortunate for me - she also was passionate about ROSES and anything Victorian or Vintage. My Nana "P" as she as known also collected old stationery and at one time sold Greeting Cards from her home in Searsport, Maine. Every time we would visit her - I would "get lost" in just looking at those beautiful images - many with glitter and gorgeous paintings. What gives you the right to charge for images that are in public domain? TOP The ephemera I inherited over the years as well as postcards and other images we have purchased have high collectible value. I do not wish to sell the original images. Once they are repaired and scanned and published, the originals are returned to air conditioned storage where they will remain. Hopefully, one day my grandchildren will also assume my passion for collecting these beautiful images and want to share them with their children.
We have had many requests to buy the collection and have turned them down. It was our goal to share the collection with others who also appreciate these gorgeous images and to do so in a manner that was as inexpensive as possible while at the same time, receiving some compensation for the work involved in sorting the images, repairing them, scanning them into our computer systems and then formatting them with very expensive software programs - to be published for our website. For many years, we sold reprints of these as watercolors or canvas prints on Ebay. With the rise of Ebay fees and shipping fees always climbing, we were always repricing our items and decided it was time to sell them as E-Images so that our clients can print them out themselves and save a lot of money and time.
We have added to our collection over the years by purchasing antique postcards and chromolithographs and stone lithographs and book plates. We have paid as much as $75 for one particular postcard to add to our collection. We think it is only fair that we recover some of our investment and also be able to purchase more in the future so that we can become one of the largest sources on the world wide web to purchase E- images of the Victorian Era. . . an Era we so love. Do you hold the copyright yourself to all of these images? TOP Not to every copy of every card - only to the ones we originally purchased or collected and formatted as our images. Please read about the entire process below. Many of these images are in public domain now. You may also shop online for vintage postcards and other ephemera but must understand that when you receive them, very few will be in excellent re-saleable condition. This brings us to the entire process.
The entire process that we accomplish with our talent, time and investment gives us the right to have our original card copyright protected because we take the original card, repair it, then scan it into our computers, repair it again if necessary and then format it for publishing. If we were to not do one thing to it, then we do not receive copyright protection. However, these images are very old - some of them over 100 years old. There has been very few instances where one could just scan a card and then publish it without reformatting it in some way. Why would we do all this work to these images and then just let others reap the rewards without any compensation? If you have any questions about copyright law, please visit the US Government Copyright site or go to http://www.cybertriallawyer.com/copyright-infringement-warning and you will read how we came to the conclusion that these images are copyright protected and that our creative effort can be interpreted as our intellectual property to which we do have rights as the ones who formatted these images for you to purchase. Where can I find the original postcards online? TOP There are many excellent sources to purchase these images. We have purchased a lot from Ebay and also have spent hours going through bins of them in the back of antique stores. Many of the postcards that once sold for .50 cents are now commanding $10-$30 each as they have become so collectible. This makes our prices very attractive unless you are a collector who of course would not be satisifed with a copy of an old postcard or lithograph - you seek the original and so do we. We understand your "passion" and also realize how the market has changed and your pricing reflects it. The more people buy these images, the more rare they become and therefore, the more collectible. |
