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St. Dunstan’s, Ovingdean, Brighton
Making the facility look vaguely like a nuclear power plant, this unused real-photo card shows what is now Blind Veterans UK, a charity providing support and services to vision-impaired ex-Armed Forces and National Service personnel (we thank Wikipedia for that). The card says “Greetings from Brighton and Hove” on the back. Grade: 2

Code: 20516251
Price: $3.00
Rough Sea, Folkestone
The designers of this card had a point to make, and they made it. Mailed in 1913, the stamp and postmark are still there; the pencilled message is fading over time, but after all it was 101 years ago. Grade: 1

Code: 20516252
Price: $4.00
London, Piccadilly Circus
We are the first to acknowledge that postcards of Piccadilly Circus are not in short supply. But this is a nice example, a busy picture on a Tuck’s Post Card (no number that we can see), mailed from Guernsey in 1951 with stamp and clear postmark. Abrasions around the edges. Grade: 3

Code: 20516253
Price: $3.00
Piccadilly Circus, London
Another in a long line of Piccadilly Circus postcards, this one from Valentine’s and mailed in what looks like 1953 (not 100% certain of that) with stamp and most of the London postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 20516254
Price: $3.00
Litherland, The Council Grounds
In 1910, Sallie wrote a long message to her brother Robert on the back of this card, not mailing it with a stamp but probably in an envelope. It’s an interesting polemic about religion. Grade: 4

Code: 20516255
Price: $2.00
Stratford-on-Avon, Swan’s Nest Hotel
As with many things British, the hotel is still there — slight change in the name (now Macdonald Swan’s Nest) and with quite mixed reviews. As for the vintage postcard, unused, clean. Grade: 1

Code: 20516256
Price: $2.00
Port Sunlight, The Lady Lever Art Gallery
Unused, old, real-photo card with a message pencilled on the back. Grade: 3

Code: 20516257
Price: $2.00
Newgate Gap, Margate
We thought of this as a routine entry until we Googled to read the history. Interesting! Despite the age of this card (mailed in 1920, stamp and most of the postmark are there), this was not the first bridge, and several stories surround this. Grade: 1

Code: 20516258
Price: $5.00
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Tyne Bridge
Mailed in 1949, with stamp and postmark, this card is significantly aged but otherwise undamaged. Postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 20516259
Price: $3.00
London, Kingswood, Dulwich, Massey-Harris Convalescent Home
And what does this convalescent home have in common with tractors? It was founded by the agricultural and implement company Massey-Harris (now Massey-Ferguson) in 1916 and treated wounded Canadian soldiers, but closed in 1919. A short history on an old unused Grano Series card, heavily aged. Grade: 2

Code: 20516260
Price: $3.00
Cheapside, London, The Crypt, St. Mary Le-Bow Church
From Wikipedia: Considered the second most important church in the City of London after St Paul’s Cathedral, St-Mary-le-Bow was one of the first churches to be rebuilt by Christopher Wren. The current building was built to the designs of Wren between 1671 and 1673; the 223-foot (68 m) steeple was completed in 1680. In 1914, a stone from the crypt of St Mary-le-Bow church was placed in Trinity Church, New York. This unused London Stereoscopic Company card, heavily aged and as atmospheric as its subject, shows the centre transept of the Norman crypt, A.D. 1090. Grade: 2

Code: 20516261
Price: $4.00
Cheapside, London, The Crypt, St. Mary Le-Bow Church (horizontal view)
See description for 20516261. Grade: 2

Code: 20516262
Price: $4.00
Knutsford, Cheshire, Tabley Old Hall
Wikipedia tells us: “The ruin of Tabley Old Hall (more properly known as Nether Tabley Old Hall) is located on an island surrounded by a moat in the civil parish of Tabley Inferior, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the west of Knutsford, Cheshire, England. The ruin is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building, and the moated site on which it stands is a scheduled monument.” This is a card from the Palatine Pictorial “Old Halls” series, mailed in 1905 and the stamp and postmark are there. Old in every way. Grade: 3

Code: 20516263
Price: $5.00
Paignton, Hotel Redcliffe
Not really surprisingly for England, the hotel is still there and gets good reviews. We wish we could go and stay there for a couple of days and give them this card as a tip for good service! Mailed in 1913, stamp and postmark are there. Grade: 2

Code: 20516264
Price: $6.00
Worthing Old House at Tarring
We went to Google to look this up and discovered there are plenty of old houses connected to Worthing (and Tarring). The card was mailed in 1919, with stamp and postmark, and a faded pencilled message. Help us know which old house this is? Grade: 3

Code: 20516265
Price: $4.00
Midhurst, “The Varlet,” Spread Eagle Hotel A.D. 1650
We’ll make two assumptions about this unused old sepia card: (1) the hotel dates from 1650, not the card; and (2) it is, somehow, the same hotel now shown in search engines as the Spread Eagle Hotel and Spa. The online photos look nothing like this card, but after so many years that should not be a big surprise. Grade: 1

Code: 20516266
Price: $3.00
Midhurst, Cowdray Castle Ruins
More from Wikipedia: “The original fortified manor house was built between 1273 and 1284 by Sir John Bohun across the river from the town of Midhurst. He named it Coudreye, the Norman word for the nearby hazel woods.” It was largely destroyed by fire in 1793, but still there for visitors. Unused sepia card from Frith & Co. Grade: 1

Code: 20516267
Price: $3.00
Isle of Wight, Carisbrooke Castle
Again, from Wikipedia, “Carisbrooke Castle is a historic motte-and-bailey castle located in the village of Carisbrooke, near Newport, Isle of Wight, England. Charles I was imprisoned at the castle in the months prior to his trial.” It, or a predecessor, was built as early as 544 A.D. and something was opened in roughly 1100. When our estimates must vary by centuries, you know it’s an old castle. So too the unused card, though not quite as far back as that. Grade: 2

Code: 20516268
Price: $4.00
Lancashire, Rivington Lake
Mailed in 1930, with stamp, postmark, and part of another postal chop. As they say here, “full marks” to the postman for being able to decipher this. Grade: 2

Code: 20516269
Price: $3.00
Stratford-on-Avon, Henley Street, Shakespeare’s House
… mailed, however, from Paris to USA in 1930. Stamp and two postmarks are there. Grade: 3

Code: 20516270
Price: $3.00
Knaresborough (North Yorkshire), Wishing Well and Dropping Well
Mailed in 1958, two different stamps and postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 20516271
Price: $2.00
Elland Road, Leeds
Unused card produced in 1995 or 1996, with an extensive caption explaining everything. Grade: 1

Code: 20516272
Price: $2.00
Bolton, Burnden Park
Unused card with an extensive historical caption. Grade: 1

Code: 20516273
Price: $2.00
Bourton-on-the-Water
Bourton-on-the-Water is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England that lies on a wide flat vale within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Unused Salmon Series card 1896c. Grade: 2

Code: 20516274
Price: $1.00
Lower Slaughter
Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. And quite near Bourton-on-the-Water. Unused Salmon Series card 1902c. Grade: 1

Code: 20516275
Price: $1.00
Chester, The Cross
The card is indeed British but was mailed from Maine (USA) to California in 1951 with stamp, postmark, and an extra date written in the address area. Grade: 4

Code: 20516276
Price: $1.00
London, Westminster Abbey, Cradle Tomb
Unused old sepia card. Aged. (Somehow, that fits.) Grade: 1

Code: 20516279
Price: $1.00
Tower of London, The Byward Tower
One online source says the Byward Tower is one of 21 that comprise the entire Tower of London complex. We’ve no reason yet to disagree. Unused old Harrison & Sons card 86. Grade: 1

Code: 20516280
Price: $2.00
Stoke Poges Church, Gray’s Pew in corner
Unused antique postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 20516281
Price: $2.00
Westminster Abbey, South Side Henry VII Chapel
Unused antique postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 20516282
Price: $2.00
Windsor Castle from Home Park
Unused Frith’s Series postcard 25613. Grade: 1

Code: 20516283
Price: $3.00
Tower of London, St. John’s Chapel in the White Tower
Somehow we have two of these unused Gale & Polden cards #1856 available. Both are heavily aged, with various abrasions on both sides. Grades: 3

Code: 20516285
Price: $2.00
Tower of London, In the Beauchamp Tower
This is Gale & Polden card 1857. We have two of them, from completely different print runs. The one we show in the scan is the worse of the two on the front (abrasions) but the back is clean and the text colour is dark brown, with no logo in the stamp area (Grade: 2, $2). The other has no abrasions on the front, but someone has written the date of Jan. 9, 1924 in the message area on the reverse. The manufacturer’s logo is in the stamp area and the print colour is a lighter brown (Grade: 3, $2).

Code: 20516286
Price: $2.00
Tower of London, Chapel of St. Peter
As the caption of this unused Gale & Polden card 1859 tells us, “Beneath the altar of the Chapel of St. Peter-ad-Vincula lie the remains of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Lady Jane Grey, and the Duke of Monmouth.” Grade: 2

Code: 20516287
Price: $2.00
Tower of London, Gateway of Bloody Tower
Unused Gale & Polden card 1848, though it has the date “Jan 9, 1924” written on the back and is stained around the edges. The caption could have said so many things, but instead writes “Above the Gateway of the Bloody Tower is seen the portcullis, the only one in England now in working order; probably it is the only working portcullis in the world.” Well, we have Google, and Wikipedia, which tells us: “In England, working portcullises survive at the Tower of London, Monk Bar in York, Amberley Castle, and Hever Castle.” Grade: 4

Code: 20516288
Price: $2.00
Tower of London, View along the Outer Ward looking towards the Byward Tower
Unused Gale & Polden card 1850, with the date Jan. 9, 1924 written into the message area. Grade: 3

Code: 20516289
Price: $2.00
Tower of London, Bloody Tower
The colourful history all encapsulated in the caption of this Gale & Polden card 1368. Did you know this was once called the Garden Tower? Things happened. Unused card but for the Jan. 9, 1924 date written into the message area. Grade: 3

Code: 20516290
Price: $3.00
Bournemouth, Durley Chine
If you come from there, you should have this J. Salmon card, mailed in 1913 with stamp and postmark. Small postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 20516291
Price: $4.00
Lynton, Castle Rock
Undivided back, unused, Valentine’s Series card. About the scene, one online source tells us that “On the opposite side of the valley to Castle Rock is the ‘Devil’s Cheese Ring’, home of the White Lady herself, white witch Mother Meldrum in R D Blackmore’s novel, Lorna Doone.” We’re on our way … Grade: 2

Code: 20516292
Price: $3.00
Warwick Castle, From the Bridge
Online reviews for this old place (opened in 1068) are dauntingly mixed. We’re certain it wasn’t like this when the undivided back postcard was mailed in 1904 (one of our earliest) with two stamps and two postmarks. The whole card’s a bit messy but it just adds to the character. Grade: 4

Code: 20516293
Price: $9.00

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