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Brugge, Grand Square and Statue
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and blue A Prior label affixed. Grade: 2
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Belgian Air Force
It would seem someone important is on board that aircraft. Mailed in 2012 with stamp and postmark. There’s a small postal abrasion that shows as a vertical line below the plane. Grade: 3
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Brussels, multiple views
Mailed in 2012 with two stamps, faint postmark, and blue A Prior label affixed. Grade: 1
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Gent, Cathedral of St. Baaf
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and A Prior label. Grade: 1
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Antwerpen – Museum van Het Steen
An old stone fortress/castle from the Middle Ages, this became a museum of archaeology in 1890 and has expanded to include other areas. As for the card, sepia, with stamp and postmark as you can see here. The back is unwritten, but the printed attribution reads “Ern. Thill, Bruxelles, serie Anvers phototon, no. 12”. Grade: 1
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Map
Mailed in 2012, with stamp and A Prior label, but no postmark. Only because of that, Grade: 4
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Gentlemen prefer …blondes!
Mailed in 2013 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2
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Antwerp, tunnel entrance
Unused Dohmen real-photo card, serrated edges. Grade: 1
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Antwerp, Gasthuiszusters van Antwerpen
Unused B&W card, serrated edges. Further information: St-Camillusgesticht. Grade: 2
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Antwerpen, Indruk (Impression)
Multiple views on a card mailed in 2013 with stamp, faint postmark, and A Prior label. Grade: 2
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Belgisch Zeestrand – Visscherstijpe
Is this not a great character study? Unused, aged card. Grade: 2
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I (heart) Belgian Beers
… and we (heart) this card, too. Mailed in 2013 with a “Belgian chocolate” stamp that smells (and tastes) like chocolate. Indistinct postmark, “A Prior” label, and a very small amount of correctional fluid fixing a mistake in the message. A lot of good character. Grade: 3
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Bruges, Porte d’Ostende
Mailed from Paris in 1949 with French stamp (of course) and full postmark. Significant postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 4
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Leuven, University Library
Mailed in 2013, with stamp, airmail label, and postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2
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I (cycling) Limburg
An ad card promoting nature routes for cycling. Mailed in 2014, with stamp and blue A Prior label affixed. The Hong Kong postmark also made it onto the front. Grade: 4
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Bruxelles, L’Entree du Bois de la Cambre
Not postally used, though back in the day someone pencilled that they were there on 3.9.10. (That’s 1910.) Grade: 3
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Antwerp Olympics poster
Contemporary card of a poster of the 1920 Olympic Games, mailed in 2014 with stamp, faint postmark, and A Prior label. Grade: 1
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Brussels, Chateau de Gaesbeek
Unused old card, not too inspiring, with left perforated edge. Heavily aged. Grade: 2
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Antwerpen, De “Torengebouwen”
Unused old card, serrated edges, of a famous building 87-1/2 m. high. Grade: 1
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Bruxelles, Place de Brouckere
Unused. Grade: 1
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Antwerpen, Aanlegplaats (linker oever) en zicht op de Stad
Unused, serrated edges, and some staining around those. Grade: 3
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Antwerpen, Aanlegplaats en Steen
Unused old card, serrated edges, aging but clean. Grade: 1
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Antwerpen, Meirplaats
Unused old card, serrated edges, aging but clean. Grade: 1
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Bruxelles, Hotel de Ville (Town Hall)
Unused old card, with perforated horizontal edges so it had been part of a set. Heavily aged. Grade: 3
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Bruxelles, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie et Eglise Sainte-Gudule
This card had been mailed, long ago. The stamp is gone, the postmark is missing, and while the photo is “OK,” the card should only be a space-filler. Grade: 5
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Brussels, St-Gudule-church
The partial postmark on this heavily aged card gives the date/time of mailing as “8.54-16” so if you know what that means, you’re ahead of us. The 5F stamp is there, along with a blue Par Avion label, Grade: 2
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Brussels, Statue of George V of Spain
Especially old and faded, unused, undivided back real-photo card. Grade: 4
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Bruxelles, Square Marie-Louise
Not postally used, this aged old card has “Brussels Aug 26” written into the address area. Grade: 3
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Anvers (Antwerpen), Le Monument aux Morts
Somehow we have two of these old, unused cards, identical conditions: aging a bit, especially around the serrated edges. Grades: 1
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Anvers (Antwerpen), Vue sur la Cathedrale et les “Torengebouwen”
Unused Dohmen card 41, serrated edges. Aging but clean. Grade: 1
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Bruxelles, La Bourse
The Place de la Bourse (in French), or Beursplein (Dutch), meaning “Stock Exchange Square”, is a major area in central Brussels. It was created following the covering of the Senne River (1867–1871). The former Brussels Stock Exchange building, of which it takes its name, is there. The unused and very old real-photo postcard is a superb glimpse into the square’s history. Grade: 1
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Anvers, Le Calvaire a l’Eglise St. Paul
Undivided back old, unused postcard — aged appropriately. Grade: 1
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Souvenir du Zoute
As representative of Belgium postcards as you’ll find, mailed in 1953 (or 1958, not sure) with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Anvers, Cathedrale Tete du Christ (Leon. de Vinci)
An unused old card, significantly stained on the front yet surprisingly clean on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Anvers, Place de Meir et “Torengebouw”
The Boerentoren (at the time of this postcard, Torengebouw) is a historic tall building in Antwerp, Built between 1929 and 1932 and originally 87.5 m high, as the card’s caption says, it remained the tallest building and the second tallest structure of any kind in the city until 2019, when the Antwerp Tower surpassed it at 100.7 m. This short history of the building also helps to date the unused postcard. Grade: 1
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Liege, Place St. Lambert
Unused real-photo card (“Veritable Photographie”) with small stain along upper front edge, and small stains and a tape remnant on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Bruxelles, Eglise Sainte Gudule
It will depend on your language of choice, whether this church (and the Saint herself) is Gudule or Gudula or any of several other spellings. Gudule had a placid life after being born in the mid-600s, but her post-mortem time was less so. The sepia-toned card is unused, and clean, though the surface on the reverse is not entirely smooth. Grade: 2
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Brussel, Zavelkerk
If you are wondering why we spell “Brussels” in different ways, it’s because we use one or another of what the cards themselves use. Here is an unused, old, real-photo card. Grade: 1
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Mouscron, Grand Place
Unused, old, sepia card whose reverse surface is slightly crinkled. Grade: 2
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Ypres, St. Martin’s Church
Unused sepia card captioned (on the reverse) “Service des Sites de la Guerre 1914-1918 … Vende au profit des Oeuvres des Invalides et Orphelins de la Guerre”. We believe your French is good enough to know what that means, and who the cards were for. Two opposing perforated edges mean this and similar cards from Ypres were originally part of a linked set. Grade: 1