Congo (Kinshasa) – Global Postcard Sales

Total: 18 postcards

Kinshasa, National Palace, air view
Card bought in 1968, never mailed, and has minor edge abrasions on front. Reverse beginning to yellow but is unmarked otherwise. It has many attributions on the back: Librarie Shamrock, Schellhammer, Concordia… Grade: 2

Code: 20413001
Price: $11.00
Kinshasa, riverside
Typical, and timeless, riverside scene real photo printed on heavy stock with no professional printing on reverse. “Kinshasa, Congo” inked in tiny letters on lower left reverse. Otherwise card is basically as-new. Grade: 3

Code: 20413002
Price: $6.00
Congo River scene
Typical riverside scene, real photo printed on heavy stock with no professional printing on the reverse but “Kinshasa, Congo” inked in tiny letters on lower left reverse. Otherwise, card is in great shape. Grade: 3

Code: 20413003
Price: $6.00
Village
Real-photo card, printed on heavy stock and sold as a postcard but has no commercial printing. Front of this B&W card is as-new; reverse has “Kinshasa, Congo” inked in small letters at bottom. Dates from 1968. Grade: 3

Code: 20413004
Price: $6.00
Market
Real-photo card, printed on heavy stock and sold as a postcard but has no commercial printing. Front of this B&W card as-new; reverse has “Kinshasa, Congo” inked in small letters at bottom. Dates from 1968. Grade: 3

Code: 20413005
Price: $8.00
Market
Real-photo B&W card, printed on heavy stock and sold as a postcard but without commercial printing. Front of this card is as-new; reverse has “Kinshasa, Congo” inked in small letters at bottom. Dates from 1968. Grade: 3

Code: 20413006
Price: $8.00
Market, bananas
Unused real-photo card, printed on heavy stock and sold as a postcard but it has no commercial printing. Front of this B&W card is as-new; reverse has “Kinshasa, Congo” inked in small letters at bottom. Dates from 1968. Grade: 3

Code: 20413007
Price: $8.00
Kibali-Ituri, Babira woman
Unused card from the 1960s, a bit bent rather than folded through the middle–this doesn’t really show on the front, but left a mark on reverse. Published by the Office National Congolais du Tourisme before Congo changed to Zaire and back again. We would like to observe that this card is very, very “ethnic.” Grade: 2

Code: 20413008
Price: $11.00
Leopoldville, Ave. Beernaert
Not sure of age but could be 1940s based on appearance of cars. Real photo, never mailed Photo Tropica antique postcard with noticeable abrasions around the edges only, and a small stain on lower right reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20413009
Price: $16.00
Market scene
Two of these cards are available. They are real photos printed on heavy stock and sold as postcards though they had no printing on reverse. The first card was mailed in 1968, has seven (yes, seven) intact stamps and mostly legible postmarks. There was no real room for a message. (Grade: 1, $16). The other was never mailed and has “Kinshasa, Congo” inked in small letters on bottom reverse (Grade: 3, $6).

Code: 20413010
Price: $16.00
Sunset on Congo River
Timeless scene on this unmailed 1960s G. Crety card. Front has almost undetectable corner abrasions; reverse is showing some age. Grade: 2

Code: 20413011
Price: $4.00
Leopoldville, Magasins Militaires du Depot d’Armee
This is a spectacularly uninteresting Tropica Prisma postcard unless you have particular interest in military goods storage, in which case it’s just what you want. Not sure of date (1940s?) but it’s a real photo and apart from obviously yellowed reverse is unmarked and in very good condition. Grade: 2

Code: 20413014
Price: $9.00
Matadi, the port
This Bromophoto card dates from the transition out of “Belgian Congo” because the printed caption on reverse has “Belge” blotted out in blue. This B&W card was never mailed, is a real photo, has two tiny blotches on front and a normally aging reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 20413015
Price: $6.50
Kinshasa, overview
This real photo was printed on heavy stock and–like many other cards of that era–sold as a postcard despite having no commercial printing on the reverse. Mailed in 1968, it has five stamps and partly legible postmarks. This card shows nearly no ill effects of either aging or having been mailed. Grade: 1

Code: 20413016
Price: $15.00
Likete, Bakutu woman
A regal, pensive (Tshuapa?) lady who appears to have been through a lot. This unused and exotic postcard dates from late 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 20413017
Price: $11.00
Maputi Grotto, in Mount Hoyo
This would be a perfect card for “guess what this is?” B&W from the 1960s, unused, and issued by the Congolese Tourism Office. Grade: 2

Code: 20413018
Price: $4.00
Mask of Dance, Asala-Mpasu
It’s an appealing, unused ethnic art card from the 1960s. Grade: 2

Code: 20413019
Price: $4.50
Dance Mask of the Bapende tribe
It’s an appealing, unused ethnic art card from the 1960s. Grade: 2

Code: 20413020
Price: $4.50

Total: 18 postcards