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Aberystwyth, Hotel and Waterfalls, Devil’s Bridge
Heavily handled yet durable card mailed in 1929 with stamp and mostly readable postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 20560001
Price: $9.00
Snap-shots of Welsh Scenery
Unused, early Ward, Lock & Co. card with normal aging and minor edge abrasion. Grade: 2

Code: 20560002
Price: $3.00
North Wales map
Mailed in 1972 with stamp and postmark, this map postcard has held up well. Grade: 1

Code: 20560003
Price: $3.00
North Wales map
Two of these unused cards are available. One looks almost as-new (Grade: 1, $2) and the other is aged and has notations on the reverse, including the date “1973 June”, which looks about right (Grade: 3, $1).

Code: 20560004
Price: $2.00
Anglesey, map
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20560005
Price: $2.00
North Wales, map
Mailed in 1974 with stamp and postmark; the writer marked the map to show where their cottage was. Grade: 5

Code: 20560006
Price: $0.50
Anglesey, South Stack Lighthouse
This card may have been mailed in 1964–the postmark isn’t totally legible, but the stamp is there. Having read the message, though, it’s one of those cards that we do so wish we could know how it got from the recipient to us. Grade: 2

Code: 20560007
Price: $4.00
The Lleyn Peninsula
Mailed in 2013 with two stamps, Welsh postmark, and blue Post Awyr label affixed. Orange postal barcoding on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 20560008
Price: $3.00
South Wales map C8545
Mailed in 1999, with stamp and Welsh postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20560009
Price: $2.00
South Wales map S.5501.L
Mailed in 1992, with stamp and postmark, but also lots of creasing and smudging. Grade: 4

Code: 20560010
Price: $1.00
South Wales, The Marches and the Wye Valley
Unused Salmon Watercolour card 2-15-00-01 (03), with an erasable pencilled notation on the back from 1996. Grade: 3

Code: 20560011
Price: $2.00
Cardiff Castle
Unused card with some water staining noted on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 20560013
Price: $2.00
River Alun by Glyn Rhys
Mailed in 1927, with stamp and Wrexham postmark. It will take you some time to figure out the message and extra writing and marks, but this postcard is undeniably old and authentic. Grade: 4

Code: 20560015
Price: $3.00
Barry Island, multiple views
Unused, aging Valentine’s Post Card 38-1. Grade: 2

Code: 20560016
Price: $4.00
Cardiff Castle from the Grounds
Starting from the beginning, the card was mailed from Cardiff on 23rd September 1904 (stamp and two postmarks show this) to Buffalo, New York, where it arrived on 1 October, with another full postmark placed there. Pattie was the original sender, and this is one of those cards where it was OK to write the message on the reverse for inland postage but not if the card was going abroad. Which it was. See also our entry 20560018. Grade: 3

Code: 20560017
Price: $4.00
Cardiff Castle
Unlike 20560017, this card has the stamp and one heavy Cardiff postmark on the back, with the Buffalo postmark on the front. For whatever reason, on the back, Pattie crossed out “Post Card” and wrote “Printed Matter” above it. Strictly following our grading guidelines, Grade: 4

Code: 20560018
Price: $2.00
Mwnt, Ceredigion
We have a particular fondness for places whose names we can’t pronounce. But we’re not Welsh. The beach is a sheltered sandy cove, and Mwnt sounds like “Moont” — if that helps. The card was mailed in 2021, with two stamps, postmark, amd trilingual air mail “chop” along with orange postal barcoding and an abrasion on the front, above the hill. Grade: 3

Code: 20560020
Price: $2.00
Llangollen Parish Church
Actually St. Collen’s Parish Church, with its Fine Tester Ceiling of carved oak, erected early in the 15th century. Many things last longer in the U.K. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20560021
Price: $2.00
Caernarfon Castle, multiple views
Unused Salmon Cameracolour card 2-11-07-11. Grade: 1

Code: 20560022
Price: $3.00
Caernarfon Castle and Aber Bridge
Unused Salmon Cameracolour card 2-11-07-10. The Government of Wales’s own website — when it’s up — describes Caernarfon Castle as “recognised around the world as one of the greatest buildings of the Middle Ages.” We’ve no reason to doubt them. Grade: 1

Code: 20560023
Price: $3.00
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Menai Suspension Bridge
Of course we owed it to you to type that place name, and we owe it to you even more not to play around with all the comments local residents would have heard thousands of times before. The good news is that if you want to know about the place, you don’t need to put in too many letters before Google auto-fills in the rest. Unused Salmon Cameracolour card 2-11-02-01. Grade: 1

Code: 20560024
Price: $14.00
St. Davids Bays
Multiple views of those four (identified) bays on this card mailed in 1983, with stamp and faint postmark and bilingual airmail sticker. There is an inconspicuous thumbtack hole at the top in that white dividing line. Grade: 4

Code: 20560025T
Price: $1.00
Fishguard, Lower Town and Harbour
Mailed in 1983, with stamp, postmark, and thumbtack hole. Grade: 4

Code: 20560026T
Price: $1.00
Menai Straits from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Unused Valentine’s Post Card A148 with a sticker at front top left and major abrasions at front top right and lower left. And we know the card’s designers threw in Menai Straits as an excuse to include that place name. Even so, and despite the condition, we offer this card to you. Grade: 5

Code: 20560027T
Price: $5.00
Nons Bay, Coast Scenery
Immediately south of St Davids, this spot is named after St David’s mother and traditionally accepted as his birthplace. A path leads to the 13th-century ruins of St Non’s Chapel. Only the base of the walls remains, along with a stone marked with a cross within a circle that’s believed to date from the 7th century. Standing stones in the surrounding field suggest that the chapel may have been built within an ancient pagan stone circle. Whether any of that is visible in this real-photo card or not, we don’t know; but the card was mailed in 1961, and stamp and postmark are there. Grade:: 1

Code: 20560028T
Price: $4.00
Lower Fishguard, The Harbour
Mailed in 1981 with four stamps, postmark, and a thumbtack hole in the sky. Grade: 4

Code: 20560029T
Price: $1.00
Tenby, multiple views
All views are identified in the caption of this card, mailed in 1982 with stamp, postmark, and airmail sticker — and a thumbtack hole in that white dividing line near the top. Grade: 4

Code: 20560030T
Price: $1.00
Launching St. David’s Life-Boat
Googling this suggests it is a high-profile activity. We can’t quite say the same about the postcard, which was mailed in 1980 with stamp and postmark — and thumbtack hole. Grade: 4

Code: 20560031T
Price: $1.00
Tryfan
Mailed in 1961, the card has stamp and postmark and airmail sticker and a very long message completely filling that area. Nonetheless, it’s a good view and Grade: 1

Code: 20560032T
Price: $3.00
St. Davids, Whitesand (sic) Bay
Whitesands Bay is a Blue Flag beach situated on the St David’s peninsula in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Whitesand Bay has been described somewhere as the best surfing beach in Pembrokeshire and we’re in no position to dispute that claim. Real-photo postcard mailed in 1959 with two stamps, of which one is torn; the full postmark is there. Grade: 3

Code: 20560033T
Price: $2.00
Tydweiliog (sic), Towyn Beach
Porth Towyn Beach is located near the village of Tudweiliog, on the northern coast of the Lleyn (Llŷn) Peninsula. This is one of the more remote beaches in the area and there isn’t a great deal around except the small caravan site and farm just behind the beach. As well, like many other Welsh place names, spellings have changed … but this postcard, mailed in 1951 with its stamp and postmark, makes it look like little else has changed. Grade: 1

Code: 20560034T
Price: $6.00
Tenby, multiple views
Tuck’s Postcard, real-photograph, stamp and postmark are there from 1959, and everything’s identified. What more could you ask? Grade: 1

Code: 20560035T
Price: $8.00
St. Davids, Buzzard
No doubting the integrity of this 1959 real-photo postcard, with 2-1/2d stamp and clear postmark. The question is why someone would choose to send it! Just joking, as the recipient was a bird-watcher. Grade: 1

Code: 20560036T
Price: $4.00
Llangollen, The Weir
Not being Welsh, or knowing anything about this apart from what Google tells us, we are guessing this is what is now known as the Llangollen Town Weir and not Horseshoe Falls, which is further away on the same river. If we’re wrong, please let us know … but this heavily handled and well-loved old 1951 Valentine’s postcard 7670, with 2d stamp and postmark, craftily calls it “The Weir at Llangollen”. Grade: 2

Code: 20560037T
Price: $6.00
Bettws-Y-Coed
Betws-y-coed (meaning ‘prayer-house in the wood’) is a village in Conwy County Borough, located in the historic county of Caernarfonshire on the boundary with Denbighshire, in the Gwydir Forest. It is now a popular visitor destination in the Snowdonia National Park. This unused Valentine’s postcard A931 makes it look quite idyllic. That was then … Grade: 1

Code: 20560038T
Price: $5.00
Bettws-Y-Coed, The Fairy Glen
Unused J. Salmon series card *1077. Grade: 1

Code: 20560039T
Price: $5.00
Bettws-Y-Coed, Pont-Y-Pair
Tripadvisor reviews can be such fun. Consider this note about the bridge: “The bridge was built in 1486 to carry horses carrying goods across the river. It was widened in the C19th to carry stagecoaches after the building of the A5, the main road to Holyhead and the ferry to Ireland. It still carries traffic. The bridge is at the south end of the village and a popular attraction, with the series of small waterfalls on the river below. It is the start of walks . There are (free) toilets here.” This postcard is unused, Valentine’s #A 935. Grade: 1

Code: 20560040T
Price: $5.00
Bettws-Y-Coed, Swallow Falls
Unused Valentine’s card A 1800. Grade: 1

Code: 20560041T
Price: $5.00
Nevin (sic), The Two Bays
Nefyn (archaically anglicised as Nevin) is both a small town and a community on the northwest coast of the Llŷn Peninsula. Nefyn is popular with visitors for its sandy beach. The history of the area can be traced back to 300 BC with the Iron Age hillfort of Garn Boduan; the remains of 170 round stone huts and ramparts are still visible on top of the 917 feet (280 m) hill. And this sepia real-photo postcard 210 446 from Valentine’s is unused, with a bit of age smudging on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 20560042T
Price: $5.00
Snowdon from Llanberis Lake
Unused Valentine’s card A152. Grade: 1

Code: 20560043T
Price: $4.00

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