Flea Market Love Letters

In Spring of 2021 the Postal Museum in the U.K. held a fantastic online event with Postcard from the Past, an archive of vintage...

Recently, I was exploring the Portobello area of Dublin on a "Postbox Saturday" and discovered a treasure trove of these rectangular...

In this edition of "Books About Letters", the monthly series where I review books which are you guessed it about letters, we're taking a...

Today, ladies and gentlemen we have a bit of a unique addition to the 2021 Writing Through the Decades Letter Writing Guide...

In today's blog we'll take a look at the pillar post boxes of Ireland and explore their history. Were they always that shade of Green? In...

As some readers may be aware, I've lived in Dublin Ireland since 2018. There are some natural culture shocks to adjust to but as a...

Hi all, it's Liz here! Today we're taking a look at Carolyn Porter's book "Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate"....

Hello and welcome back to the halfway point of the 2021 "Writing Through the Decades" Vintage Letter Writing Guide blog series. Today...

Recently at Flea Market H.Q. I've been researching and writing about all things Philately. In digging through the archives I've found...

It was a few weeks ago on Twitter when I saw that a fellow letter lover, Liz Kentish, had sent Dinah (founder of The Handwritten Letter...

What did you call me?! That might be how you feel but bear with me. In this blog we're going to tackle a digestible etymology of the term...

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to talk letters with a group of students at The Brookfield Library in Brookfield, Connecticut....

Todays Writing Through the Decades entry is one of the most eye catching covers on the Letter Writing Guide shelf at Flea Market H.Q....

Today I'm talking about interesting "Postmarks" and "Killers" from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. In nearly four years of archiving for...

One of the most common questions we get to Flea Market H.Q. comes along the lines of How do you read the handwriting? Often times, the...

This was a long awaited, much requested read for us at Flea Market Love Letters H.Q. Many, many folks met me -- Hi, I'm Liz! -- with...

It's the first Sunday of the month which means we're back with another installment of "Writing Through the Decades". This time we're...

Ever wondered how I store the nearly 300+ vintage letters in the Flea Market Love Letters archive? Check out this video from our YouTube...

Thanks to longtime friend of the Flea Market Love Letters archive Nitin Garg for making this custom one-of-a-kind cocktail for us! Called...

It being St. Patrick's Day we at Flea Market H.Q. thought it would be the right time to dust off some of our favorite Irish postcards!...