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Dijon Album Special Edition for Our Allies (folio of 20)
We’re showing you the front cover of a small folio of 20 B&W cards with an extra postcard-sized table of contents bound in at the beginning. Attribution on the back cover to Louys Bauer (publisher), and long ago someone wrote the date, Feb. 9 – 1919, on the outside back cover. The cards are separated by tissue paper. This is a genuine World War I souvenir indeed. We will assign Grade: 2
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Souvenir de Cannes: 24 cartes postales (folio)
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, this nearly 100-year-old unused set of 24 detachable cards costs about the same as a drink in a decent bar in Cannes now. There’s tissue paper between the B&W (or sepia, it’s hard to tell) cards, and while the set has been handled over many years, it’s all there. If any question, please ask us. Grade: 2
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Chateau-Thierry (Aisne), Monument of the Memory of the dead Heroes of the 3rd Division U.S.A,
The caption on this unused, blue-tinted World War I vintage card would seem to say it all. Grade: 2
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Antibes, Le Fort et Vue Panoramique sur les Alpes
Unused, old, embossed (in the white area) vintage postcard. Grade: 1
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Blois, Le Chateau
Unused card but with tape from an album on all four corners. Grade: 5
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I (heart) Colmar
Unused. Grade: 1
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Grenoble, multiple views
All those places are identified in the reverse caption. Mailed in 2014, with stamp, postmark, and orange postal barcoding. Grade: 1
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Marseille, Vue generale vers les iles du Frioul
Unused YVON real-photo card 1527. Grade: 1
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Alsace, Marché de Noël
Mailed in 2014, with stamp and illegible postmark. Grade: 2
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Sassenage (Isere)
Unused, heavily handled real-photo card. Serrated edges. Grade: 2
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Bretagne, Maisons de Pecheurs
Mailed in 2014 with stamp, postmark, and some orange postal barcoding. If you don’t read French, these are fishermen’s houses. Grade: 1
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Amitram, Tramways de Neuchatel
The tram may be Swiss but the card itself is definitely French, with stamp and two postmarks. Grade: 1
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Lourdes, La Benediction des Malades
Unused, highly aged card 52 from Edition Palais du Rosaire (Lourdes). Might this be a pope? We don’t know how the system works. Grade: 1
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Bordeaux, Ete 2013
Nice summery promotional card mailed in 2013 with stamp and postmark and a tiny touch of correctional fluid on the back. Grade: 3
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Paris, L’Arc-de-Triomphe de l’Etoile
A very old, unused and clean card. (No cars!) Grade: 1
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Strasbourg, Marche de Noel, Le sapin
Mailed in 2012 with an impressively long “Sports” stamp and postmark. Orange postal barcoding. Grade: 2
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Paris, Ste. Chapelle – La Crypte
Unused old sepia card. Grade: 1
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Orleans – Pont de Vierzon
Lower right corner missing from this otherwise unused card. Grade: 5
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Herault, Saint-Guilhem-Le-Desert, Le Cloitre
Somewhat grim view on a very old, genuinely vintage unused sepia postcard. Grade: 1
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Metz – Vue generale
Habitez-vous à Metz? Souhaitez-vous pas plaisir à posséder cette carte? Unused, with minor scuffing. Grade: 2
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Metz – La porte Serpenoise
Et celui-ci aussi? Unused Pierre Maas fils card, with Colette’s name pencilled on the front. (We could have erased that, but her name was Colette, after all …) Heavily aged. Grade: 2
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Metz – L’Esplanade
Unused, aged, vintage B&W postcard. Grade: 2
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Le Mont-Dore, Pic du Capucin
Unused card, heavily aged but clean. Grade: 1
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Cathedrale D’Angers
Very old card, unused though someone long ago pencilled “Cathedral of Angers” on the back. You could erase that. Grade: 2
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St-Thégonnec (Finistère) – L’Eglise
A 16th-century church on an early 20th-century postcard, unused. Grade: 1
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Park of Versailles – Apollo’s Thicket
Unused, heavily aged B&W card. Grade: 2
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Palais de Versailles – Facade principale
Unused, heavily aged. Grade: 2
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Parc de Versailles – Le Bassin de Latone
Unused vintage postcard. Grade: 1
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La Plaine Saint-Denis. – Le Square et la Salle des Fetes
Unused and clearly ancient B&W card. Aged but clean. Grade: 1
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Parc de Versailles. – Le Bassin de Neptune
Unused B&W card. Grade: 1
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Lisieux, Chapelle et Chasse de Ste Therese
St. Therese lived at the convent from 9th April 1888, until 30th September 1897, a Carmelite Sister. Some or all of her remains are interred here. The card itself was mailed in 1930, with stamp and double postmark. We could call this postcard a relic in itself, a “must” for devotees. Grade: 1
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Schloss Brimont b. Reims
Unused, old German postcard with perforated upper edge. We checked: the actual location, which you almost certainly know if you are reading this, is in France. Grade: 2
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Colmar, Musee des Unterlinden, La Chapelle
Unused sepia card from Societe Schoengauer. Very old. Grade: 2
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Palais de Fontainebleau, The Chapel
Unused, highly aged old card. Grade: 2
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Aix-les-Bains, The Bourget lake, the steamer “Ville d’Aix” and the Mount “du Chat”
Very old, unused card with some dents that can only be noticed from the reverse. Grade: 3
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Versailles, Palais du Grand-Trianon
Unused, aged, unattributed old card. Grade: 2
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Berru, Total mit Kirche
Unused, heavily aged old postcard whose left perforated edge indicates it had been part of a set. Clean apart from aging. Grade: 1
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Moulinet, Chapelle de Notre-Dame de la Menoura
Dated 1915 (we think), with stamp and postmark as you see, this card is covered in message, front and back. Grade: 3
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Alpes-Maritimes – Vue sur Sospel et le Fort du Barbonnet
Between the postmarks and the message, we think this card was mailed in 1914. Stamp is still there, multiple postmarks, but the view may have changed. Grade: 3
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Amelie-les-Bains, Piscine Gallo-Romaine des Thermes Romains
Probably mailed in 1920. Stamp and postmarks are there. Grade: 2