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London, Lambeth Bridge and Houses of Parliament
Superb and now somewhat older view on this unused Photographic Greeting Card Co. card C8639. Grade: 1

Code: 20516460
Price: $4.00
London, Piccadilly Circus
Another era entirely on a brilliant, unused, Photographic Greeting Card Co. C11803 (183) example. Grade: 1

Code: 20516461
Price: $6.00
London, Tower Bridge
Unused Photographic Greeting Card Co. C12706 (157). Grade: 1

Code: 20516462
Price: $3.00
London, Buckingham Palace
Unused Photographic Greeting Card Co. C13923 (1304). Grade: 1

Code: 20516463
Price: $2.00
London, Trafalgar Square & Nelson’s Column
Unused Photographic Greeting Card Co. C21513 (1310). Grade: 1

Code: 20516464
Price: $4.00
London, Houses of Parliament with Big Ben and Westminster Bridge
Unused Kardorama Ltd. product KLV 11. Grade: 1

Code: 20516465
Price: $4.00
London, Nelson’s Column and Trafalgar Square
Unused Fry’s card 77. Grade: 1

Code: 20516466
Price: $3.00
Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
Unused Cotman-Color Series card SP 147. Grade: 1

Code: 20516467
Price: $2.00
Gloucester Cathedral
Unused, sepia-tinted, Photochrom real-photo card 6341 with bits of staining across the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 20516468
Price: $3.00
Exeter, Elizabethan Gallery (Mol’s Coffee House)
If you Google this, you will be left wondering whether any place called Mol’s is still near there and still serving coffee, though there’s no doubt the building in this photo exists. Located in Cathedral Close, dated 1596, the building was named after Thomas Mol, Italian, at a time when coffee had perhaps not even been introduced into England. Sir Francis Drake is said to have used Mol’s as a meeting place and it may have been during such meetings that Drake planned how to foil the Spanish Armada. The building may now be used as a map and stationery shop. Inside the building, a frieze bears 46 coats of arms, and it is said to be the only building in Europe with a unique star-shaped ceiling. Not one of the 230 panes of glass is perfectly square. Unused Overland Views real-photo card. Grade: 1

Code: 20516469
Price: $4.00
Maidstone, Leeds Castle
Unused card, though the white area in the water below the left side of the castle is an abrasion on the card. Grade: 5

Code: 20516470
Price: $0.50
Clifford’s Tower, York Castle
Clifford’s Tower is the largest remaining part of York Castle, once the centre of government for the north of England. The 11th-century timber tower on top of the earth mound burned down in 1190, after York’s Jewish community, some 150 strong, was besieged here by a mob and committed mass suicide. The present 13th-century stone tower was probably used as a treasury and later as a prison. The unused card looks (almost as) old. Grade: 1

Code: 20516471
Price: $3.00
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and family in Canada
Captioned but undated visit on this unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20516472
Price: $7.00
H.M. King Charles III
Only because we’re honourable people over here in Hong Kong, you’ll need to trust us when we say this was one of the very first postcards of the new king issued in England following the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. We know this to be true because a good friend happened to be there at the exact time these new cards went into the rack. And they were gone in a flash. But we can’t show you the image just yet, for reasons we could explain if you ask us. King Charles III is seated, in formal garb, with his arm draped on the back of his chair. Ask if you want to see the image, and we will e-mail it outside the structure of the website. We also have a card with the same photo but this one has a white border, with “HM King Charles III” named at bottom front. Grades: 1

Code: 20516473
Price: $4.00
Windermere, The Windermere Hydro
What fun it was trying to figure this out from Google. As far as we can tell, the Hydro was refurbished and renamed as “The Ro Hotel Windermere” but please don’t hold us to that in case it’s wrong. We’re just confused because Agoda still lists it as Hydro. Life’s like that. Unused postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 20516474
Price: $3.00
Coventry Cathedral, The Bishop’s Throne
Unused Cotman-Color Series card 19340. Grade: 1

Code: 20516475
Price: $2.00
Coventry Cathedral, Chapel of Christ the Servant
Unused Cotman-Color card 19335, with this location described as the “centre for the cathedral’s work in industry.” Grade: 1

Code: 20516476
Price: $2.00
Coventry Cathedral, Epstein’s Statue
To be precise, Epstein’s bronze statue of St. Michael and the Devil — on Cotman-Color card 19334, unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20516477
Price: $2.00
Coventry Cathedral, The Baptistry Window
Unused Jarrold & Sons card KCC 8 . Grade: 1

Code: 20516478
Price: $2.00
Warwick Castle and River Avon
Former home of the Earl of Warwick, whose ancestors “vitally influenced the country’s history”. Unused John Hinde card 250A 1. Grade: 1

Code: 20516479
Price: $2.00
Warwick Castle: Clarence and Bear Towers
A serene photo on this unused John Hinde card 2WK 14. Actually the older Guy’s Tower is there too, in the background. Bear Tower holds an ancient bear baiting pit. All you need to know … Grade: 1

Code: 20516480
Price: $3.00
Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
The view on this unused Jarrold card KSA 177 is from the orchard. Grade: 1

Code: 20516481
Price: $2.00
Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
Another view from the orchard, on unused Cotman-Color Series card SP 229. Grade: 1

Code: 20516482
Price: $2.00
Beefeater
Unused Colourmaster postcard PLX9907. Grade: 1

Code: 20516483
Price: $1.00
Bath, Roman Baths Museum
We could never improve on the caption printed on this unused card’s reverse: “Romano Celtic Head of Medusa or Gorgon from Pediment of Temple of Sulis Minerva”. (Or, something like what we see in our mirror each morning.) Grade: 1

Code: 20516484
Price: $2.00
Bath, Avon – Roman Baths, multiple view
Unused John Hinde card 2DC 1116 on the back of which these specific scenes are identified. Grade: 1

Code: 20516485
Price: $3.00
Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
A nice B&W rendering of an empty street. Mailed in 1985, with two stamps and most of the postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20516486T
Price: $2.00
London, multiple views
Can’t get much more touristy than this, can we? Mailed in 1983, with stamp, blue bilingual airmail sticker, and blurry postmark, this card does have the advantage of identifying each of those views in the caption on the back. But then there’s the disadvantage of a really inconspicuous thumbtack hole. Grade: 4

Code: 20516487T
Price: $1.00
Guernsey, C.I., multiple views
We will place this card — mailed from Sark in 1984 with a Guernsey stamp and readable postmark — in along with English cards. Those three sites are identified in the caption on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 20516488T
Price: $6.00
Lakeland Passes
This postcard was mailed in 1982 from Edinburgh, with stamp/air mail sticker and postmark. About the passes: these were originally used by people in one valley traveling to another nearby without having to go around a steep ridge of intervening hills. Historically, in the Lake District of northwest England, tracks across the ridges were created, taking the easiest route over passes – often, but not always, via a col. Since Roman times long-distance travel had tended to be along ridges. From the 19th century these passes and ridge routes were brought back into use when recreational hill walking become popular. Of roughly 40 hill passes within the Lake District National Park, this card identifies three: Honister, Kirkstone, and Hard Knott. Grade: 1

Code: 20516489T
Price: $3.00
Hartland Village, N. Devon
Mailed probably in the 1980s (indistinct postmark), with two different stamps and a thumbtack hole. Grade: 5

Code: 20516490T
Price: $0.50
Polperro, The Harbour
A busy, alluring J. Salmon card 1-46-04-04, mailed with stamp and airmail sticker but no readable postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20516491T
Price: $3.00
Winchcombe, multiple views
Mailed in the 1980s (we think; the postmark’s not clear) with an airmail sticker and a barely noticeable thumbtack hole. The scenes, including High Street, are identified in the caption. Grade: 4

Code: 20516492T
Price: $1.00
The Lake District
Mailed in 1978, with stamp, airmail sticker, clear postmark, and thumbtack hole. Grade: 4

Code: 20516493T
Price: $0.50
Portloe, Roseland, Cornwall
Forgive us if we don’t have those place names in the correct order. A fairly old postcard, year undetermined, with its stamp and airmail sticker. Grade: 1

Code: 20516494T
Price: $3.00
Torquay, Oddicombe Beach
Abrasions on both sides of this card mailed in (we think) 1960 make it little better than a space filler. Two stamps and the postmark are the card’s saving grace. Grade: 5 But now we will do something we do only once per 10,000 cards, more or less: we are going to enter a lot of relevant terms suitable for search engines. You can safely skip this part — it’s purely mechanical, nothing more. Here goes: old postcards, collectible postcards, antique postcards, used postcards, odd postcards, quirky postcards, novelty postcards, rare postcards, ancient postcards, theme postcards, geographic postcards, fancy postcards, unusual postcards, common postcards, valuable postcards, pretty postcards, beautiful postcards, worldwide postcards, and of course global postcards. That will do for now!

Code: 20516495T
Price: $0.30
Hampshire, Elvetham Hall
Elvetham Hall is now a hotel, a High Victorian Gothic Revival English country house and a Grade II* listed building. The house was built in 1859–62 for Frederick Gough, 4th Baron Calthorpe, with tall brick chimneys and an entrance front dominated by a tall tower. The interior is notable for its fireplaces. The house has a porte-cochère added in 1901 and a dining room added in 1911, while this postcard was also mailed a long time ago — with stamp, almost full postmark, airmail sticker, and some tape remnant on the reverse. Grade: 3.

Code: 20516496T
Price: $3.00
Cape Cornwall, near Lands End
It’s “Lands End” twice on the card, and “Land’s End” in Wikipedia, so … the real-photo postcard itself was mailed in 1962, with stamp and postmark and a bit of smudging on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 20516497T
Price: $4.00
Mouth of the Dart
The mouth of the river separates the communities of Dartmouth and Kingswear. Proposals to bridge the river here have come to nothing. Instead the two places are linked by, in order going upstream, the Lower Ferry, Passenger Ferry and Higher Ferry. The Lower and Higher ferries both carry vehicles, the Higher one linking the A379 road. Our real-photo postcard was mailed decades ago and has its two stamps, but the postmark and part of the message are marred by an abrasion where tape was removed. Grade: 4

Code: 20516498T
Price: $3.00
Sutton-on-Sea, multiple views
Once in awhile we run across an old postcard that has everything an old postcard should be: good condition, stamp, postmark, and all scenes identified clearly. This real-photo Valentine’s (the company, not the holiday) greeting was mailed in 1961 and it could have been yesterday. Grade: 1

Code: 20516499T
Price: $7.00

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