Total: 8 postcards

  • Tahiti, Maraa Cave

    Evocative yet dark card, slightly stained on upper perimeter and rumpled at corners for having been in an album at some point. Frame this, and dream. From L. Gauthier. Grade: 3

    Code: 20605001

    Price: $48.00

    Tahiti, Maraa Cave

  • Tahiti, Maraa Cliff

    Interesting unused B&W Gauthier card, really undamaged, and apart from normal aging, it’s in terrific condition and almost begging to be framed. Grade: 1

    Code: 20605002

    Price: $47.00

    Tahiti, Maraa Cliff

  • Tahiti, Papeete, Quai du Commerce

    Black-and-white with red overprint, this old Polynesia card has aged 100 years with dignity. Unused, undamaged, worth the price.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20605003

    Price: $89.00

    Tahiti, Papeete, Quai du Commerce

  • Point Venus Lighthouse

    We have no choice to place this unused Columbia View Card 171601 in the “French Polynesia” category but the card was printed in USA, the caption and all are in English, and it doesn’t look like a card that was for domestic sale in Tahiti.  Search engines didn’t help much with that.  But they did tell us it was built by Robert Louis Stevenson’s father, which was interesting.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20605004

    Price: $3.00

    Point Venus Lighthouse

  • Daybreak, Papeete, Tahiti

    Please read this description carefully to avoid any misunderstanding.  The front is what you see.  The card itself was made by Sierra Colortype Co. of San Francisco and mailed from San Francisco with a one-cent stamp in 1909 as an advertisement from O.S.S. (a steamship company).  There is a typewritten message giving price and other details of voyages, and an overprint sayiong “TAHITI STEAMER SAILS FROM FRISCO…” on various dates.  (We wish we could have been on it.)  Postmark ink transfer on the front.  Grade: 3 

    Code: 20605005

    Price: $12.00

    Daybreak, Papeete, Tahiti

  • Tahiti, Bora-Bora

    This card still has its stamp and readable Papeete postmark, and would be great except that the name and address of the receiver have been blotted out (not entirely successfully) with some kind of marker pen.  Mailed in 1979.  Grade: 4

    Code: 20605006

    Price: $3.00

    Tahiti, Bora-Bora

  • Marquisiennes

    From the Marquesas Islands, with a large stamp and two postmarks.  Somehow this card found its intended destination.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20605007

    Price: $8.00

    Marquisiennes

  • Cooke Bay, Moorea, m/s Paul Gaugin

    Paul Gauguin is 504 feet (154 m) long and is powered by a diesel-electric system giving the vessel a maximum speed of 18 knots. The ship has seven passenger decks and capacity for 318 guests and a crew of 216.  It was launched on 25 April 1997 and completed and delivered on 1 December 1997 to Services et Transports Tahiti of Mata-Utu, French Polynesia … then christened at Port Everglades, Florida on 18 December and sailed for the Pacific the following day.  Originally registered in France, the ship’s registry was changed to the Bahamas until July 2020, when new owner Ponant re-registered the ship in Wallis & Futuna.  Unused card measuring 5″ x 7″.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20605008

    Price: $4.00

    Cooke Bay, Moorea, m/s Paul Gaugin

Total: 8 postcards