Tunisia – Global Postcard Sales

Total: 18 postcards

Tunisie multiple views
Card mailed in 1998, two stamps and legible postmark. Also a red mark on reverse, placed by post office. Card has minor postal creasing on corners. Grade: 2

Code: 20457001
Price: $8.50
Folklore group
Card was mailed in mid-70s. The stamp is intact but only a tiny bit of postmark is there. Card may have been taped onto something; when tape was removed, some of the message went with it. Front has an abrasion in sky area. Minor edge abrasions. Grade: 4

Code: 20457002
Price: $4.00
Sbeitla, Roman ruins
The card was mailed in the mid-70s. There are edge abrasions on front. Reverse has one stamp intact (we think that’s all there was) but the postmark is not legible. The card had been taped on the reverse, and when the tape was removed, it defaced the message. Grade: 4

Code: 20457003
Price: $4.00
Tunis – Souk El Blagdjia (des Babouches)
Unused. Grade: 2

Code: 20457004
Price: $11.00
Tunis – Souk des Chechias
Unused. Grade: 2

Code: 20457006
Price: $11.00
Tunis, Interior of Hamouda Pacha Mosque
Unused, heavily aged card. Grade: 3

Code: 20457007
Price: $4.00
Carthage, Roman and Punic Ruins
Unused, aging card. Grade: 2

Code: 20457009
Price: $4.00
Toujane
Unused, slightly aging card. Grade: 1

Code: 20457011
Price: $7.00
Tunis, Mosquee Zitouna et Hotel Africa
Unused KAHIA card 1648, aging but clean. Hotel Africa still operates, as of this writing, with reviews praising the location and staff. If we were there, we’d give it a try. Grade: 1

Code: 20457013
Price: $5.00
Zarzis, Hotel Sangho
Editions KAHIA card 353, not postally used but with a rubber-stamped “chop” from a prominent collector on the reverse. As for the hotel, now Sangho Club Zarzis, it gets a few but wildly mixed reviews online. Grade: 3

Code: 20457014
Price: $2.00
Un groupe folklorique
An old card, not postally used, and with a long message covering the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20457015
Price: $2.00
Hammamet
Old card, not postally used, and with a message in Portuguese covering the entire reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20457016
Price: $2.00
Kairouan, Mosquee Okba
Unused MIRAGE card. Grade: 1

Code: 20457017
Price: $3.00
Tunis, Abou Nawas Hotel
Unused old card, significantly aging and with part of what might have been a hotel “chop” on the reverse caption area. Grade: 3

Code: 20457018
Price: $3.00
Nefta, Camel – divers (sic)
We’re fairly certain the caption meant “camel drivers”. Unused card captioned in four languages. Grade: 1

Code: 20457020
Price: $2.00
Sidi Bou Said
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20457023
Price: $2.00
El-Djem, Le Colisee
The Amphitheatre of El Jem could seat 35,000 spectators. Only the Colosseum in Rome (seating about 50,000 spectators) and the ruined theater of Capua were larger. The amphitheater at El Djem was built by the Romans under proconsul Gordian, who was acclaimed emperor at Thysdrus around 238 A.D. and was mainly used for gladiator shows and small-scale chariot races. Until the 17th century, it remained more or less whole but from then on its stones were used for building the nearby village of El Djem and transported to the Great Mosque in Kairouan. Ruins of the amphitheater were declared a World Heritage Site in 1979. And this old, unused sepia card shows how things were more than 100 years ago. Grade: 2

Code: 20457024
Price: $8.00
Le Bardo
Le Bardo is west of Tunis, built by the Hafsid dynasty in the 14th century. The name “Bardo” comes from the Spanish word “prado” (a garden), and Bardo became a residence of the Tunis court in the 18th century.This card was mailed in 1973 with large stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20457025
Price: $7.00

Total: 18 postcards