Albania – Global Postcard Sales

Showing 1–40 of 290 postcards

Shkodra, from a hill
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20501005
Price: $3.00
Saranda, Castle of Ali Pashe Tepelena – Butrint
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20501006
Price: $4.00
Kruja, wedding and multiple views
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20501007
Price: $3.00
Kruja, National Museum, GJ. K. Skenderbeu
Also known as Skanderbeg. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20501008
Price: $4.00
Permet
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20501009
Price: $3.00
Sarande, Hotel Butrinti
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20501010
Price: $3.00
Shkodra, Eine gehende Flachsspinnmaschine
From long ago, and even though we don’t speak German, we can make out what this means. Unused card from Ndrek Kaculini of Shkodra. Grade: 2

Code: 20501011
Price: $11.00
Shashica – Pamje nga skel’e Vlones vhe moli
Do you speak Albanian? We entered this text into Google Translate, and it came back as: “View from the dock vhe Vlones skel’e”, as though the translator gave up halfway. Unused and very old sepia card. Grade: 1

Code: 20501012
Price: $9.00
Winter in Tirana
Unused, contemporary card. Grade: 1

Code: 20501013
Price: $4.00
View from Vlora
Unused, contemporary card. Grade: 1

Code: 20501014
Price: $4.00
Dajti Mountain National Park
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20501016
Price: $4.00
The Best of Albania – folio
The scan shows you three facings of the accordion-style fold-out folio of 20 pictures of modern Albania. They seem not to have been designed as postcards but could be used that way if you were to cut them one by one. We don’t recommend doing that, though. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20501018
Price: $19.00
Loto ticket (not a postcard)
This is not a postcard, but an unused lottery ticket. We have a few. If you want to buy it, it’s US$10. But if you buy three or more Albanian postcards from us, and if you mention that you would like one piece of either 20501019A or B, we’ll happily give you one for free. (Limit one per customer, please.)

Code: 20501019A
Price: $10.00
Tele Bingo ticket (not a postcard)
This is not a postcard, but an unused lottery ticket. We have a few. If you want to buy it, it’s US$10. But if you buy three or more Albanian postcards from us, and if you mention that you would like one piece of either 20501019A or B, we’ll happily give you one for free. (Limit one per customer, please.)

Code: 20501019B
Price: $10.00
Ancient Cities
Having visited all four of these cities, we agree they’re “ancient” but Durrës in particular seems ready to shake all that off. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20501020
Price: $4.00
Albanian Castles
Unused Arba card 498. Grade: 1

Code: 20501021
Price: $4.00
Man’s Suit, Big Highland (Rrugova)
Rrugova (Albanian alphabet has “RR” and “LL” as individual letters) is more associated with Kosovo, but this is an Albanian card, Arba 138, unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20501022
Price: $4.00
South Albania, Shepherd’s Traditional Costume
Unused Arba card 205. Grade: 1

Code: 20501023
Price: $4.00
Tropoje, Regional Women’s Dresses
Unused Arba card 136. Grade: 1

Code: 20501024
Price: $4.00
Permeti Highlands, The Distillation of Raki
It is not possible to go anywhere in Albania without being very close to–and urged to try–raki. Let us know what you think. Unused Arba card 141. Grade: 1

Code: 20501025
Price: $4.00
View of the Northern Highlands
Older (1989) card from the emergent period. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20501028
Price: $4.00
The Bunkers of the Communist Regime
When we were (much) younger, Albania to our perception was hermetically sealed from the rest of the world. These bunkers–and many survive–are a legacy of that era. You might be surprised what’s happening with them now! Unused Arba card 831. Grade: 1

Code: 20501029
Price: $9.00
Berat, Muzeu Onufri
The Onufri National Iconographic Museum is inside the Berat Castle, which means a short walk or a long drive to get up there. It has quite a few nice displays, which they might want to start protecting soon against all manner of possible situations. Unused card, with detailed captions in Albanian and English explaining the views. Grade: 1

Code: 20501033
Price: $4.00
Berat, Muzeu Etnografik
Ethnographic museums are scattered all around Albania, as well they should be, with such a rich and varied history. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20501034
Price: $4.00
Berat, Xhamia e Beqarëve (Bachelors’ Mosque)
The Bachelors’ Mosque is a Cultural Monument of Albania, located in Berat. It became a Cultural Monument in 1961 though it dates from 1828. The mosque is located in the lower Mangalem neighborhood. It has two floors and arcades on three sides of it. Unused postcard, captioned in Albanian. Grade: 1

Code: 20501035
Price: $4.00
Berat, Epitaphe de Gllavenice
Looks like just another ancient artwork but when we go to Wikipedia (slightly abridged version): “The Epitaph of Gllavenica is a 14th-century epitaph, written on a shroud made of silk, linen and gold, symboliz(ing) the burial cloth of Christ, used in Orthodox Good Friday’s processions. The Epitaph represents the dead Christ lying on a linen, Saint Mary, John, other Four Evangelists, prophets and angels with spread wings. It was commissioned by the Albanian ruler Gjergj Arianiti in 1373.In 1994, the shroud was stolen from the National Historical Museum of Albania in Tirana. In 2005 an international symposium assessed that the shroud should be restaured for the amount of 25-50k Euros because it risks to be irreparably deteriorated and damaged from the lights of the Albanian National Museum.” So it was stolen and then found? In any event, this is an older card predating that “theft”. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20501036
Price: $3.00
Berati, Mangalem Quarter by Night
Throughout the Albania section, and other theme categories, you will see variations on city name spelling. We tend to follow what the card uses. (Ref: Venezia, or Venice, in Italy.) This is unused Arba card 902. Grade: 1

Code: 20501037
Price: $4.00
Berati, View from Mangalem Quarter
Unused Arba card 791. Grade: 1

Code: 20501038
Price: $4.00
Berati, View from Mangalem Quarter
Our hotel was up in here, a restored old structure, and it was just wonderful–the kind of place you settle in and don’t want to leave–except of course that you want to see the city, too. Unused Arba card 783. Grade: 1

Code: 20501040
Price: $4.00
Berati, Gorice Quarter
Unused Arba card 116. Grade: 1

Code: 20501041
Price: $4.00
The Ancient City of Berati
Older, unused Klea Kolor card 96/1393, heavily handled over the years. Grade: 3

Code: 20501042
Price: $3.00
Berati, Fortified court of the castle
An older card, captioned in Albanian and English, unused, and smudged from handling over many years. Grade: 2

Code: 20501043
Price: $4.00
Berat, The Osumi Canyons
Unused Arba card 818. Grade: 1

Code: 20501044
Price: $3.00
The Best of Berati (folio, 20 photos)
We’re assuming this item is similar to our entry 20501018, but it’s still sealed in its original cellowrap so we can’t say for certain if these are postcards or what. Maybe the individual (connected) photos could be used that way, but we don’t know. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20501045
Price: $22.00
Butrinti, “View from the Ancient Town of Butrinty”
Ancient, indeed. Julius Caesar helped build it. A UNESCO site since 1992, sadly none of the Butrinti cards refer to this designation. In some ways, Butrint (we use the international spelling now) is reminiscent of the area surrounding Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Different religions, of course. Unused Arba card 212, but heavily handled over time. Grade: 3

Code: 20501046
Price: $2.00
Butrinti, Baptistery
Dating from the 4th – 3rd centuries BC, and one of the focal points of a walk through this very large archaeological site. Unused Arba card 550. Grade: 1

Code: 20501047
Price: $4.00
Greetings from Albania, Butrinti
Unused Arba card 96. Grade: 1

Code: 20501049
Price: $6.00
The Ancient City of Butrinti (cen. IV-III BC)
Unused Arba card 295. Grade: 1

Code: 20501050
Price: $5.00
Butrinti, View from the Ancient City
Unused Arba card 428. Grade: 1

Code: 20501051
Price: $4.00
Butrinti, The Amphitheater of Butrinti, Saranda
Unused Arba card 545. Grade: 1

Code: 20501052
Price: $4.00

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