Showing 121–160 of 290 postcards

  • Tirana, The castle of Petrela

    Unused 1988 card, bilingual Albanian/English captions, from the transitional period.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501144

    Price: $9.00

    Tirana, The castle of Petrela
  • Tirana, night view with fountains

    Unused Aeditions card 456.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501145

    Price: $3.00

    Tirana, night view with fountains
  • Tirana, Skanderbeg statue and square

    Unused Aeditions card 867.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501147

    Price: $4.00

    Tirana, Skanderbeg statue and square
  • Tirana, overview, park

    Unused Aeditions card 706.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501148

    Price: $4.00

    Tirana, overview, park
  • Tirana, The Park of the Youth

    Unused card from 1989, the country’s transition period.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501149

    Price: $6.00

    Tirana, The Park of the Youth
  • Tirana, Museum of National History

    This 1983 card shows a general view of the hall of the National Renaissance.  It has most of the 1984 postmark.  That’s the good news.  The bad news is that the stamp is gone and the card has been very heavily handled over the years.  To be honest, if you just want a space-filling card from Albania’s Communist era, this would be it.  Grade: 5

    Code: 20501150

    Price: $3.00

    Tirana, Museum of National History
  • In the Great Park of Tirana

    Unused card from 1988, what we are calling the transitional period.  We look at the photo, and the people, and wonder:  what were they thinking about?  Two cards are available.  One is unmarked (Grade: 1, $6) and the other has a 1988 message on the back (Grade: 3, $3).

    Code: 20501151

    Price: $6.00

    In the Great Park of Tirana
  • View of Tirana

    Unused 1988 card, now a historical relic.  Grade: 1. 

    Code: 20501152

    Price: $8.00

    View of Tirana
  • Tirana, snow

    Looks like our item 20501013–same photo, different type font–but here it is again, Winter in Tirana on unused Arba card 338.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501154

    Price: $4.00

    Tirana, snow
  • Tirana, central

    Unused Aeditions card 753.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501155

    Price: $5.00

    Tirana, central
  • Tirana, overview 748

    Aeditions card 748, mailed from Tirana in 2016 with two stamps, blue bilingual Me Aeroplan label, and postmark.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501157

    Price: $8.00

    Tirana, overview 748
  • Tirana, Twin Towers

    Once again, the postcard’s captions told us nothing, but a quick online search took care of that.  One source writes: “The Twin Towers, located in the center of Tirana, are considered the most luxurious buildings in the city. These two 15-story glass buildings are situated close to one other and have the same design and colors, which is the reason they are called “twins’.”  Well, yes, we can understand that.   As a bonus, the towers flank one of the brightly coloured buildings for which Tirana is also famous.  Unused Aeditions card 570.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501158

    Price: $3.00

    Tirana, Twin Towers
  • Valbona Valley, National Park

    Oh the clean air … Unused Aeditions card 820.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501159

    Price: $3.00

    Valbona Valley, National Park
  • Vlora beach

    This is one of our favourite Vlora postcards, only because they managed to make this look like one of the least accessible beaches in the world.  Who knows, it may be, because we didn’t get to see it.  Unused Arba card 436.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501161

    Price: $3.00

    Vlora beach
  • Vlora, view from seaside

    Less the seaside and more the colourful buildings on it.  Unused Aeditions card 441.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501162

    Price: $3.00

    Vlora, view from seaside
  • Vlora, beach umbrellas

    We probably shouldn’t judge the popularity of Albanian tourist atractions by the number of people appearing in the postcards.  On this brilliant day, only two people?  Remember the axiom:  “if you build it, they will come”.  Unused Aeditions card 861.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501164

    Price: $3.00

    Vlora, beach umbrellas
  • Vlora by night

    Unused Aeditions card 884.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501165

    Price: $3.00

    Vlora by night
  • Vlora, resort view

    Unused Aeditions card 883.  Some aging.  Grade: 2

    Code: 20501166

    Price: $2.00

    Vlora, resort view
  • Vlora, flag in city

    Unused, somewhat aging Aeditions card 882.  Grade: 2

    Code: 20501167

    Price: $3.00

    Vlora, flag in city
  • Vlora, main road, aerial view 395

    Unused Aeditions card 395.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501168

    Price: $4.00

    Vlora, main road, aerial view 395
  • Panoramic view of Vlora

    This unused Vlora postcard (Aeditions #813) inadvertently gives you a snapshot in time of an area undergoing rapid development.  If you’re so inclined, check back a few years from now to see what the same place looks like.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501169

    Price: $4.00

    Panoramic view of Vlora
  • Vlora Beach

    What we like most about this unused Aeditions card 613 are the captions, whose English does really say “Vlora Beach”.  Then again, look hard enough, and you’ll see it.  There even seems to be a blue beach umbrella, and if you wonder why we tell you this, you need to have seen our now-discontinued Blog.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501170

    Price: $4.00

    Vlora Beach
  • The Churches of Voskopoja (cen 17-18)

    Unused Aeditions card 733.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501171

    Price: $3.00

    The Churches of Voskopoja (cen 17-18)
  • Vuno, multiple views

    The exact location in the bilingual caption is Vunoi-Vlore.  Unused Klea Kolor card 96/4283.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501172

    Price: $4.00

    Vuno, multiple views
  • Swans

    We have two of these unused, slightly aging 1988 cards.  No special caption, though the manufacturer’s name and “Tirane” are on the reverse.  Let’s guess this scene is a park in Tirana.  Grades: 1

    Code: 20501173

    Price: $2.00

    Swans
  • Gëzuar Uitin e Ri! (Happy New Year)

    Older (1989) postcard from Tirana, cheerily promising better things to come.  Unused.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501174

    Price: $8.00

    Gëzuar Uitin e Ri!  (Happy New Year)
  • Shote Galica, People’s Heroine (Kristaq Rama)

    Kristaq Rama was the sculptor of this statue/monument to Shote Galica, a Kachak of the Albanian insurgent national liberation.  Unused card from Tirana dated 1982.  Some smudging on the reverse.  Grade: 2

    Code: 20501175

    Price: $7.00

    Shote Galica, People’s Heroine (Kristaq Rama)
  • The Light of Knowledge (Arben Basha)

    Unused 1982 card from Tirana, very heavily aged.  Grade: 2

    Code: 20501176

    Price: $5.00

    The Light of Knowledge (Arben Basha)
  • Stop … Hap Krahun …

    Happily the card has captions in Albanian and English (“Stop … Pull Over …”).  Unused, Klea Kolor 96/3496.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501178

    Price: $4.00

    Stop … Hap Krahun …
  • Tirana, Albanian Nature, night

    Unused Arba card 473, 4-1/8″ x 7-7/8″.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501179

    Price: $4.00

    Tirana, Albanian Nature, night
  • The Albanian Castles

    Mostly in Europe, we understand items like this are (often) classified as “postcards” but Global Postcard Sales doesn’t normally list them since they are meant to be folded and somehow sealed together.  The unfolded item is as you see in the scan, though we deleted some commercial information.  If you were to flip that over, the reverse looks like the back of a normal postcard.  Arba Editions 503, measuring 6-1/4″ x 8-3/4″ unfolded.   Grade: 1

    Code: 20501180

    Price: $6.00

    The Albanian Castles
  • Shkodra, nje gytet per t’u zbuluar

    This is actually an ad card–from whom, we don’t know but it looks like a local initiative–and much of the message area is taken up with a caption in Albanian only.  The legend in the header translates as “a city to be discovered”.  We agree.  Two of these unused cards are available.  Grades: 1 

    Code: 20501181

    Price: $3.00

    Shkodra, nje gytet per t’u zbuluar
  • Shkodra, The Castle of Rozafa

    Unused Aeditions card 264.  This is one of the few in which the publisher actually identifies the scene.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501183

    Price: $3.00

    Shkodra, The Castle of Rozafa
  • Shkodra, The Castle of Rozafa

    This unused Aeditions postcard 1087 is one of our contemporary Albanian favourites because the design makes it look like it’s a 3D perspective, even though it is firmly 2D,  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501184

    Price: $4.00

    Shkodra, The Castle of Rozafa
  • Greetings from Shkodra, mu;ltiple views

    Unused Arba Editions card 230.  Captioned in Albanian and English.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501186

    Price: $3.00

    Greetings from Shkodra, mu;ltiple views
  • Shkodra, Pijaca, night view

    Unused Aeditions card 592.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501187

    Price: $3.00

    Shkodra, Pijaca, night view
  • Thethi, maize and lane

    In the middle of a national park, this is one of the remotest places in the country, with breathtaking drives (preferably in 4WD vehicle) if you enter from Shkodra, or a longish trek over a mountain range if you enter from Valbona.  It does attract quite a few folks who want to get away from it all, and wind up getting mostly on top of each other.  But it is beautiful there.  Unused Aeditions card 1033.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501188

    Price: $4.00

    Thethi, maize and lane
  • Thethi, the church

    Thethi is also known as Theth, which is fun to say quickly.  That valley area is not large and one can spend a few days there, relaxing and walking around.  It will be awhile before there’s a Starbucks, though.  Unused Aeditions card 830.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501189

    Price: $4.00

    Thethi, the church
  • Tirana, overhead view

    Unused Aeditions card 874.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501191

    Price: $3.00

    Tirana, overhead view
  • Tirana, night view

    Tirana at night can be lively and bustling, with superb restaurants and coffee shops and so on.  This card just makes it look a bit bleak.  Not so.  Unused Aeditions card 965.  Grade: 1

    Code: 20501192

    Price: $3.00

    Tirana, night view