Estonia – Global Postcard Sales

Total: 31 postcards

Harjumaa
From 2010, with stamp, postmark, and blue prioritaire sticker affixed. Grade: 2

Code: 20517001
Price: $3.00
Tallinn, overview
Card mailed in 2010 with three stamps, all of which are fine but one of which might frighten small children. (If you come from Estonia, you might know which one we mean.) Blue bilingual Prioritaire sticker affixed. Nice card. Grade: 1

Code: 20517002
Price: $4.00
Multiple views
Mailed in 2010 with blue Prioritaire sticker affixed, and a bright yellow stamp fully and readably postmarked. Grade: 1

Code: 20517003
Price: $2.00
Tungos tiivistyy kohtaamiseksi
Perhaps one needs to be from Estonia to appreciate this card fully. Mailed in 2011, with stamp, postmark, blue affixed Prioritaire sticker, and the message also stuck on. Grade: 4

Code: 20517004
Price: $3.00
The towns of Estonia
Six towns, a map, a windmill … all on one card mailed in 2011with stamp, blue bilingual Prioritaire sticker, full postmark, and one little bonus sticker of a seahorse. Grade: 3

Code: 20517005
Price: $5.00
Castles
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 20517006
Price: $5.00
Haapsalu, Bishop’s Castle
Unused card with perforated edges top and bottom from having been in sequence in a folio. Grade: 1

Code: 20517007
Price: $3.00
Kasmu Boulders
Unused card with perforated edge at the bottom from having been in sequence in a folio. The text in the scan tells you this. But it’s just one card. Grade: 1

Code: 20517008
Price: $2.00
Parnu, Kuninga Street and Pier
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20517010
Price: $6.00
Parnu, multiple views
That sure looks like a popular beach. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20517011
Price: $5.00
Parnu, multiple views
Unused card. On the lower left is Parnu’s concert hall. Grade: 1

Code: 20517014
Price: $5.00
Parnu, St. Elizabeth’s Church
Unused card with perforated edges on top and bottom. Grade: 2

Code: 20517015
Price: $3.00
Tallinn, mutiple views
Mailed in 2011 with one huge and one smaller stamp, blue Prioritaire, and postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 20517016
Price: $6.00
Tartu, statue
Mailed in 2011 with one stamp and full postmark, the reverse also has a blue bilingual Prioritaire label affixed along with four small stickers of flowers and bugs. Grade: 4

Code: 20517017
Price: $2.00
Tallinn, multiple views
This Tallinn postcard was mailed in 2011 with two stamps (one, really very large), postmark, and blue bilingual Prioritaire label affixed. Grade: 2

Code: 20517018
Price: $2.00
Tallinn, Viru Gate
Tallinn’s Old Town is a UNESCO Heritage Site. This gate leads to it. Card mailed in 2011 with three stamps, and Prioritaire and address labels affixed. Grade: 3

Code: 20517019
Price: $1.00
Greetings from Tallinn!
A message on the reverse, but no stamp or postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 20517020
Price: $1.00
Tartu, multiple views
Nice Estonian postcard, mailed in 2011 with two different stamps and blue bilingual Prioritaire label. Full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20517021
Price: $4.00
Multiple views
The front of this Estonia postcard is great but the reverse is loaded up with little stickers, address label, Prioritaire sticker, but then also a large stamp and postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 20517022
Price: $1.00
Smile, You are in Estonia
Actually, we’re not in Estonia, but the unused card was. Grade: 1

Code: 20517023
Price: $4.00
Alternativ
This seems to be an ad card, but even if we spoke Estonian we probably wouldn’t be certain what it is advertising. Mailed in 2012, with Olympics stamp and full postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 20517024
Price: $2.00
Perega Teatrisse!
In Estonian, this means “Family Theatre” and while it is unused and the right size to be a postcard, there is nothing printed or written on the reverse. We’ll be generous this time, and call it a postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 20517025
Tuppa tungib …
You may enjoy this as much as we did. We put the Estonian text on the front into Google Translate, and we got this back: Penetrates inside the gingerbread flavor and soul of anticipation. Sweet Christmas and a Happy New Year! Honestly, we couldn’t say it better ourselves. Mailed in 2012 with stamp and bilingual Prioritaire label. Grade: 1

Code: 20517027
Price: $2.00
Vingele Sõbrale
Google Translate falls down with this one, coming up only with “Vingelis Friend,” which isn’t too helpful but we’re sure it’s something nice. Mailed in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and Prioritaire label. Grade: 3

Code: 20517028
Price: $2.00
Pärnu, Mole Lighthouse
Mailed in 2013 with two stamps, full postmark, and bilingual Prioritaire label. Some smudging happened in transit. Grade: 2

Code: 20517029
Price: $4.00
Tallinn Town Hall (Maximum Card)
This card is making us work. First, we are listing it geographically twice: once under Estonia, where it is now; and once under USSR, where it once was. Google gives us plenty of information about Tallinna Raekoda (in Estonian), describing it as “the only intact gothic style town hall in the Northern Europe.” We have no reason to dispute that. The front of the card is OK. The reverse is not. It is unwritten, but there had been some kind of stamp that was removed, and the right side looks like it had been pasted into a book or album. Because the front is fine, we give this Grade: 4

Code: 20517030
Price: $6.00
Tallinn, view from the tower of St. Olaf’s Church
Brilliant card, mailed in 2014 with three different stamps, airmail label, and two full, special red postmarks from Ermi Postimuuseum Tartu. For contemporary Estonia postcards, you can’t do better. Grade: 1

Code: 20517031
Price: $4.00
Eestimaa (Estonia), multiple views
Not postally used, but with a message written on the back. Grade: 4

Code: 20517032
Price: $1.00
Kristina Šmigun (Maximum Card)
Unused maximum card issued in 2006 of Kristina Šmigun-Vähi (born 23 February 1977 in Tartu), a former and so far most successful Estonian female cross-country skier. It’s official card No. 51. Grade: 1

Code: 20517033
Price: $5.00
Andrus Veerpalu (Maximum Card)
Unused maximum card No. 52 from 30th March 2006. Veerpalu himself was later the subject of some controversy, for which any search engine tells you what you need to know. Grade: 1

Code: 20517034
Price: $5.00
Theodor Gehlhaar
Larger (5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″) B&W card of this engraving by Gehlhaar, mailed from Tallinn in 2024 with two different stamps and postmark. It survived the journey well. Grade: 1

Code: 20517035
Price: $2.00

Total: 31 postcards