No Specific Country – Global Postcard Sales

Total: 13 postcards

In the Oasis
Amazingly atmospheric and very old sepia card, never mailed, heavily aged, and the only marking is a small unobtrusive penciled price on upper right reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 20400001
Price: $2.00
African sunset
This Mexichrome 5901 card has no country attribution but we bought it in Kenya. It dates from mid-1960s, and apart from the beginnings of age on reverse, is undamaged. Grade: 1

Code: 20400002
Price: $3.50
Convoy
No indication whatever on this unused Hoa-Qui card 4031 of what country this is, but being the Sahara, does it really matter? There is a significant abrasion in the sand below the lead camel. Grade: 4

Code: 20400003
Price: $1.00
Market
Iris-Mexichrome card with bilingual French/English caption, but bought and mailed in Kenya in 1975 with two stamps and nearly complete Nairobi postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20400004
Price: $3.00
Dancing
John Hinde card with captions in English, German, and French; mailed from Tanzania in what looks like 1977 with two stamps and a blue EAA Air Mail label. The Dar-es-Salaam postmark is there. All that’s the good news. The bad news is that the reverse message and address have been thoroughly defaced. Grade: 5

Code: 20400005
Price: $0.50
Pecheurs
From the IRIS “Afrique en Couleurs” series, card #8466, not postally mailed and with an address label on the back. (Further note: in 1985 this seems to have been sent to Radio Sofia in Bulgaria, from Gabon, as a greeting.) Grade: 4

Code: 20400006
Price: $0.50
Going to market
Unmailed Hoa-Qui “Afrique en Couleurs” card 4 573, with a 1969 round “chop” mark on the back, and the Priority label (as you see in the scan) on the front. Grade: 5

Code: 20400007
Price: $0.50
Les amoureux
We did a little online searching and research about this Lehnert & Landrock card 746. The publishers were prolific with different series of cards of Maghreb (or Mediterranean?) lifestyles, but sparse with informative captions. What we can tell you is that our price for this old, unused card is generally lower than any of our competitors. Highly aged. Grade: 3

Code: 20400008
Price: $5.00
Lehnert & Landrock, La petite mendiante
We did a little online searching and research about this Lehnert & Landrock card 593 along with our other entry, card 746. The publishers were prolific with different series of cards of Maghreb (or Mediterranean?) lifestyles, but sparse with informative captions. What we can tell you is that our price for this old, unused card is generally lower than any of our competitors. Highly aged. Grade: 3

Code: 20400009
Price: $5.00
Tribal Life
The card was made in (and attributed to) South Africa but the scenes are not specifically identified that way so we can’t say so either — but proof is in the bilingual English/Afrikaans captions. Someone felt it necessary to write “Afrikaans Language” in the address area. Grade: 4

Code: 20400010
Price: $1.00
Flower Girls
The “Afrique en Couleurs” series with predominantly French captions was more available in West than in East Africa, but these Iris cards were, broadly, continental. This is their item #7626 and was mailed from Senegal with two different stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20400011
Price: $3.00
Africa’s beautiful birds
Despite (Kenya) stamp and Westlands postmark, we can’t make out when this card was posted, and apart from that stamp it does not focus on a specific country. But we lived in Kenya before, and those birds are all familiar (and identified in the caption), so we are confident in zeroing in on East Africa. The lilac-breasted roller; crowned crane; Scarlet-chested sunbird; and others. Grade: 1

Code: 20400012T
Price: $4.00
Bantu Life – Swazi Musician
This unused card was made and sold in South Africa, but apart from the publisher’s attribution, there’s no other indication of the location of the scene. So we must remain vague about that. Grade: 1

Code: 20400013
Price: $2.00

Total: 13 postcards