French Guiana – Global Postcard Sales

Showing 1–40 of 60 postcards

Cayenne, Rue du General de Gaulle
Not postally used, but with a message (in French) taking up the entire reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20207001
Price: $9.00
Cayenne, Palmistes Square
Not postally used, but with a message taking up much of the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20207002
Price: $3.00
Haut Itany, Jeune Indienne Wayana (110)
Unused, authentic vintage “Editions des Caraibes” postcard 110, showing some age. Grade: 2

Code: 20207003
Price: $6.00
Haut Itany, Jeune Indienne Wayana (121)
Unused, authentic vintage “Editions des Caraibes” postcard 121 from Cayenne. Grade: 2

Code: 20207004
Price: $6.00
Regina, sur le fleuve …
Mailed in what might be 2002 with (French) stamp, partial postmark, and orange postal barcoding. Some postmark smudging on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 20207005
Price: $5.00
Haut Itany, Jeune Indienne Wayana (19)
Mailed in 1988, with stamp, postmark, orange postal barcoding on the back, and postal creasing on the lower right corner. Grade: 3

Code: 20207006
Price: $9.00
Indiens du Haut-Oyapock et de la region du Tumuc-Humac
Unused, unnumbered Mercator card. Aging. Grade: 2

Code: 20207007
Price: $7.00
Indiens de l’Amazone et de Guyane
Unused, vintage Mercator card. Grade: 2

Code: 20207008
Price: $11.00
Indiens du Haut-Oyapock et de la region du Tumuc-Humac (M3012)
Unused Mercator card M 3012. Grade: 1

Code: 20207009
Price: $9.00
Wayana Indian (90)
Editions G. Delabergerie card 90, not postally used but with a message taking up the reverse. Bilingual French and English captions. Grade: 4

Code: 20207010
Price: $6.00
Fillette indienne (515)
Productions Pierre Dubois card 515, not postally used but with a message from 1988 taking up all of the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20207011
Price: $5.00
Indiens Wayana, Haut Itany (2160)
Desireable ethnic card, Editions des Caraibes 2160, mailed in 1973 with stamp and full Cayenne postmark. If we didn’t already have it, we would want it. Slight staining on the reverse (Grade: 3, $14). And, we have another card with the same picture and reference number, but different publisher (G. Delabergerie). This one is not postally used but an extensive message takes up all of the reverse (Grade: 4, $7).

Code: 20207012
Price: $14.00
Haut Itany, Indien Wayana (17)
Not postally used, but with a long message taking up the entire reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20207013
Price: $6.00
A young indian girl
Iris/Mexichrome card 7751, not postally used but with a long message taking up all of the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20207014
Price: $5.00
Ecoliers indiens
Unused Hoa-Qui/Mexichrome card 5052. Handled quite a bit over the years. Grade: 3

Code: 20207015
Price: $6.00
Petite Hmong a Cacao
Until we saw this card, we had associated the Hmong people exclusively with Asia. The things we learn. Unless this one has a different meaning. Unused, G. Delabergerie 626. Grade: 2

Code: 20207016
Price: $11.00
Indiens du Haut-Oyapock et de la region du Tumuc-Humac (M3009)
Unused Mercator card M 3009. Grade: 2

Code: 20207017
Price: $9.00
Indian
Brilliant B&W real-photo card mailed from Kourou in 1970 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20207018
Price: $12.00
Le lanceur EUROPA II
Mailed from Cayenne in 1972 with stamp and full postmark. This card alone is almost enough to convince us to open a new “Outer Space” theme category. We’ll see … Grade: 2

Code: 20207019
Price: $12.00
Indien coupant des pousses de canne a sucre
Unused P. Dubois card No. 514. Grade: 1

Code: 20207020
Price: $9.00
Cayenne, Place des Palmistes (G1)
This looks like but isn’t the same as our entry 20207002. In this case, Editions des Caraibes card G1, mailed from Cayenne in 1974 with stamp and great postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 20207021
Price: $7.00
Saint-Laurent, coat of arms
The French caption explains everything, on a card mailed in 1974 with stamp and full Kourou postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20207022
Price: $8.00
Cayenne, L’hotel de ville
Not postally used, but with a long message taking up the entire reverse. There is also an abrasion extending across the front of the card. Grade: 5

Code: 20207023
Price: $4.00
Kourou, L’Hotel des Roches
Recent online reviews make this sound like a hotel, and place, we would love to visit. The card is vintage “Editions des Caraibes” 167, not postally used but with a long message taking up all of the back. Grade: 4

Code: 20207024
Price: $6.00
La Guyane, multiple views
Mailed from Cayenne in 1985, with stamp and fully legible postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20207025
Price: $8.00
Ancien bagnard
Bagnard = Convict, on this unused P. Dubois card No. 535, somewhat aging (like the bagnard). Grade: 1

Code: 20207027
Price: $6.00
Rura, aerial view
Unused P. Dubois card No. 519. Grade: 2

Code: 20207028
Price: $9.00
Cayenne, Le marche central
Unused P. Dubois card 335. Grade: 1

Code: 20207030
Price: $8.00
Iles du Salut: Auberge de l’Ile Royale
Unused P. Dubois card 507. Go to the search engines and see the most interesting things written about this place, and this establishment. Grade: 2

Code: 20207031
Price: $8.00
Iles du Salut, Guardians churchyard in St. Joseph Island
We have a few cards from Iles du Salut (Islands of Salvation), which include this one–St. Joseph–as well as Ile Royale and Ile du Diable (Devil’s Island), made famous long ago in real life and in cinema. St. Joseph is the second-largest of the three, at 20 hectares. We could go on, but if one can get past the cruel history, the place is without doubt exotic. Unused G. Delabergerie card 69, captioned in both French and English. Very atmospheric. Grade: 2

Code: 20207032
Price: $9.00
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, entrance of the old Penitentiary
Unused G. Delabergerie card 87. Grade: 1

Code: 20207033
Price: $9.00
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, “Chinatown” on the Maroni River
The card has aged since it was mailed in 1983, but it has a commemorative (French, of course) stamp and two large Cayenne postmarks. Just more special than most, and not what one would normally expect from a “Chinatown” postcard. Grade: 3

Code: 20207034
Price: $16.00
Orpailleurs – Passage du Saut Vata
Orpailleurs = Miners, on this Clic-Clap card from Kourou, mailed in 1997 with stamp and two postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 20207035
Price: $9.00
Vue aerienne des Iles du Salut
All three of The Salvation islands, including Devil’s Island, on this G. Delabergerie card 141 mailed from Kourou in 1971 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 20207036
Price: $16.00
Wayana Indian hunting with bows
This unused card from G. Delabergerie (#18) is captioned in French and English, and is one of the few we have that places the Wayana group (Haut Itany) in both French and Dutch Guiana. Grade: 1

Code: 20207037
Price: $7.00
Saint Laurent du Maroni, The Church’s Square
Delabergerie card 86, not postally used but with a message all over the smudged reverse. Note that some cards put hyphens in the name of this town, while others don’t. This one doesn’t. The captions are in French and English. Grade: 4

Code: 20207038
Price: $6.00
Roura Village
This card was not postally used, has captions in French and English, and message(s) taking up all of the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20207039
Price: $3.00
Visages de Guyane
Lots to see in this unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20207040
Price: $8.00
Vue aerienne de Cayenne
Unused Editions Caraibes card 140. If you only want one card of Cayenne … Grade: 1

Code: 20207041
Price: $13.00
Cayenne, Ecole Maternelle (Nursery School)
Unused, vintage, B&W view, unattributed. Serrated edges. Grade: 2

Code: 20207042
Price: $11.00

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