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Dusseldorf Airport
Mailed in 2011, this card has stamp, postmark, and Priority label, as well as pasted address label, and abrasion on upper right front. Grade: 4
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Industriekultur im Ruhrgebeit
Postal abrasion on bottom edge, the card was mailed in 2011 or 2012 and has a blue Luftpost label but no postmark. Grade: 4
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Bielefeld, multiple views
From 2011, a card with many signatures, stamp, postmark, extra stickers, and lamination peeling off the front. Grade: 4
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Berlin, multiple views
All of these individual views are identified, in English, on the reverse caption. We could fit this card into so many topical categories, but, this time, will give it a rest and just list it once. Mailed in 2011 with two stamps, postmark, and Luftpost sticker. Grade: 1
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Kap Arkona lighthouse
Two cards are available. One was mailed in 2011 with stamp, postmark, and Priority label, the only problem is some postal battering on the lower left corner. The other was mailed in 2012, three stamps, postmark and Priority, similar condition (Grades: 3, $4)
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Deutschland map, chevrons, and multiple views
Three stamps, full 2011 postmark, Luftpost sticker, address label, and altogether Grade: 3
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Aachen, multiple views
Mailed in 2011 or 2012, the two stamps and postmark are there but it’s a dark postmark on a dark stamp. Priority label also. Grade: 1
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Bayreuth, multiple views
… and each of those multiple views is identified. Mailed in 2011 with stamp, postmark, and Luftpost and address labels affixed. Grade: 3
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Deutschland ist schön (Germany is beautiful)
We do very much wish we had ever had the chance to see anyplace in Germany other than Frankfurt Airport. Perhaps the promise on this card is true, after all. Mailed in 2012 with two stamps, orange postal barcoding, and readable postmark. A little bit of postal battering on the edge. Grade: 2
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Wismar, Schöne Grüße
Two stamps, faint postmark, and blue Luftpost sticker. Grade: 1
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Münster in Westfalen, multiple views
Stamp and partial postmark, with Priority label. Grade: 1
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Potsdam, Park Sanssouci (Palace)
Rococo to an extreme, the palace was built by Knobelsdorff between 1745-1747. The card is somewhat newer than that, having been mailed in 2012 with two stamps and full postmark on one of them. Grade: 1
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Leipzig, Auerbachs Keller
From 2012, with three different stamps, illegible postmark, and Priority. Minor postal abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 2
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IFA G 5-2
Here is what you might want to know: “IFA G 5-2 als Werkstattkofferwagen der 2. Generation zum Bulldogtreffen in Burkhardtsdorf,” on 26th of August 2007. The card was mailed in 2011 or 2012 with two stamps but the postmark is black on a black stamp. Grade: 1
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Leipzig, shopping mall and other views
The four views are listed in German in the caption, and in English by the writer. Mailed in 2011 with stamp and Priority label, and postmark. Grade: 1
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Augsburg, 2000 Years
You might notice from the scan that the large caption on the front of the card is almost impossible to read. That’s a design thing. The card was mailed with its stamp, partly legible postmark, and blue Priority label affixed. A bit of postal battering. Grade: 2
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Sonsbecker Ansichten 1 (Sonsbeck Views 1)
Mailed in 2012, with stamp, most of the postmark, and blue Priority label affixed. Orange postal barcoding on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Hamburg, Hansestadt
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and Priority. Grade: 1
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Grusse von Porz am Rhein (Cologne)
Mailed in 2012 with three stamps, postmark, and Luftpost label affixed. Grade: 2
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North Sea lighthouse
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, most of the postmark, Priority label, and orange postal barcoding, this is a somewhat flimsy card that appears to have been ordered online through Deutschepost. Grade: 1
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Plettenberg im Sauerland
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and trilingual Priority label affixed. Grade: 1
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Braunschweig bei Nacht, multiple views
Mailed in 2012 with two stamps, postmark, and two address labels. Grade: 4
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Regensburg an der Donau, Schöne Grüße
Mailed in 2012, stamp, postmark, Priority label, and a small sticker of a chicken coming out of an egg. Grade: 4
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Flensburger Forde, Schöne Grüße
This card from 2012, two stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Gruss aus Germersheim
Mailed in 2012, Luftpost sticker, stamp, and readable postmark. Grade: 1
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Köln, Domstadt am Rhein
Mailed in 2012, with three stamps and postmark. Grade: 1
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Leuchtturme der Nordsee
Great for collectors of lighthouse postcards: all 12 of these are identified. Mailed in 2012 with two stamps and blue trilingual Priority label. Grade: 1
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Waltrop, multiple views
Mailed with one stamp and faint postmark. Grade: 2
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Munich Airport
Mailed in 2012 with two stamps, partly legible postmark, and Priority label. The designers seem to have gone out of the way to obliterate details from that aircraft. Grade: 2
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Berlin Metro
Mailed from Finland (not Berlin!) in 2012 with a large and unusual stamp of a train, full clear postmark, and blue Priority label. Only because the card was mailed outside of Germany, Grade: 3
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Berlin, “Skytrain” at the Technology Museum
Mailed in 2012 with two stamps, postmark, and Luftpost. A little postal abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Dampf-Schnellzuglokomotiven 10 001 + 011061
This card has extensive information about these trains, in German. Issued by Deutschen Dampflokomotiv-Museums (DDM), it was mailed in 2012 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Diesel-Streckenlokomotive 232 001-8
This card has extensive information about this train, in German, but it was mailed from Finland in 2012 with stamp, faint postmark, and Priority label. Grade: 3
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Koln am Rhein
Contemporary card, mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and Priority label. We are just beginning to see European cards with Chinese captions like this. There will be many more. Grade: 2
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Zeichensprache (Road signs)
Comic translations. The internet card was mailed in 2012 with stamp and Hamburg postmark; as it was wrongly sent to Indonesia first, it also has a rubber stamp “Misent (sic) to Jakarta MPC”. Grade: 1
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Munich Metro map
Mailed from the Netherlands (not Germany!) in 2012, with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 3
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Berlin, Rotes Rathaus
Mailed, with stamp, partial postmark, and address label affixed. Grade: 4
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Gruss vom Airport Frankfurt
An older card, and while we might have thought they would show a Lufthansa flight and not Aerolineas Argentinas, it’s fine with us. This was mailed in 2012 from Ukraine (not Germany!) with four stamps and Kiev postmark. Some postal handling is evident, but this is about as international as any postcard can get. Grade: 3
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Viele Grüße vom der Mosel
Mailed with two stamps, postmark, and blue trilingual Priority label. Grade: 1
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Grüße aus der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
Mailed in 2012, with stamp, postmark, and Priority and address labels affixed. The card suffered during mailing and the lower edge is torn. Grade: 5