Greece – Global Postcard Sales

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Santorin, St. Nikolas
Very hard to know the exact age of this B&W card. It was mailed and has two stamps, with almost-legible postmark, a caption that either reads “1999” or “1939,” and reference to Joakimides Thira. It has been pinned to a bulletin board several times at top but the holes are well hidden on front. Serrated edges. Grade: 4

Code: 20523001
Price: $4.00
Meteora, monastery
Vintage B&W card, heavily aged, small pencilled notation on reverse–but unmailed. Edge and corner abrasions. Grade: 4

Code: 20523002
Price: $3.50
Santorin, windmill
One could imagine the film “Foreign Correspondent” being shot here, but it wasn’t. The Joakimides Thira card dates from 1939, is unmailed, has serrated edges, and is highly aged on reverse but exotic, atmospheric and beautiful in its way. Grade: 2

Code: 20523003
Price: $5.00
Athens, Constitution Square and Acropolis
Unused card from the 1960s, as-new. And we want to say from the card you can see how powerful and all-inclusive the Acropolis is over the city of Athens. Grade: 1

Code: 20523006
Price: $5.00
Athens, Olympiein (Nord-Ouest)
In 1916, a French person wrote a message to his parents on the back of this card, but it wasn’t mailed. The edges are battered and creased a bit, while the front of the card is glossy and embossed. Grade: 4

Code: 20523007
Price: $11.00
Athens, University
This undated real photo card with serrated edges looks like it’s from the 1950s, and has captions in French and Greek stating that this is The University. (Seems quite modest for the world’s seat of learning.) A message is written in Greek on the reverse, though the card was never mailed. Grade: 4

Code: 20523008
Price: $10.50
Theatre d’Epidaure
Not sure when this Perla Athens real photo was taken, but in 1949 a message was written on the back. There is no commercial printing on the reverse, and at one point this card had been folded in half. Grade: 4

Code: 20523009
Price: $9.50
Mykonos
Either sepia to start, or B&W turned sepia through fading, but either way the card is now real-photo sepia, unused, and first obtained in the 1960s. Grade: 3

Code: 20523010
Price: $7.00
Athens, general view of Acropolis
Not a very distinguished card–you could almost call it “domestic”–but it was mailed in 1969, has the stamp and most of the postmark, and some postmark smudging on the front. Quite authentic! Grade: 3

Code: 20523011
Price: $3.00
Athens, Omonia (Concord) Square
Except that the buildings must have changed since this unused card was picked up in 1969, it could be sold as-new now. Grade: 1

Code: 20523012
Price: $3.50
Athens, the Cariatides
Almost as if they were posing … the card was mailed in 1969 with one stamp but the postmarks are not legible and the writing on the reverse is smudged a little. Grade: 3

Code: 20523013
Price: $3.00
Papos
The hyper-efficient US postal system stuck a white strip on the front so they could further deface the card with an orange bar code. So, sorry, we don’t really know if this is Papos or Paros but it looks like a nice place to visit. The card itself was mailed from the USA to Hong Kong in 2002, with a 70-cent US stamp, and yet more barcodes on the reverse, so all in all this is just a space filler. Grade: 5

Code: 20523014
Price: $1.00
Athens, Temple of Aphaea
Mailed in 1973, two stamps, and readable postmark. We wonder if similar cards before or after show these stones to have moved. Grade: 1

Code: 20523015
Price: $5.50
Poros, port
Cards, like people, travel all over. This one was mailed from Malaysia in 1986. It has two Malaysian stamps and most of a postmark, and the card has begun to age noticeably on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 20523016
Price: $3.50
Mykonos
The card was mailed in the mid-1990s, and has its stamp and a series of partial postmarks. It really makes Mykonos look like a very pleasant place. Grade: 1

Code: 20523017
Price: $3.00
Delfi
However you choose to spell the Oracle’s home, this card was mailed in 1999 and has stamp and Delfi postmark, though the writer had some trouble with her pens. Card is still in excellent shape. Grade: 1

Code: 20523018
Price: $3.00
Kos
Kos calls itself “The best island,” and that would be a tough decision. The card was mailed in 1999 and has its stamp but no legible postmark. The address is on an affixed sticker. Grade: 3

Code: 20523019
Price: $3.00
Skopelos, Aegean Sea
Another of these cards that may or may not have begun life in sepia but have turned that way now. Unused, bought in mid-1960s, aging–particularly around the edges. Grade: 3

Code: 20523020
Price: $5.50
Poros, partial view
This card was mailed in Malaysia (not Greece!) in 1986, with two Malaysian stamps and mostly readable postmark. Significant abrasion on upper front edge. Grade: 4

Code: 20523021
Price: $3.50
Rhodes, Knights Street
Heavily aging card first mailed in about 1974, with stamp and a couple of mostly legible postmarks. Grade: 4

Code: 20523022
Price: $3.00
Athens, Guards at Royal Palace
Unused card, old and getting older but hanging in there. Grade: 3

Code: 20523023
Price: $14.00
Athens, Acropolis
Lovely old card, mailed in 1909 with the stamp on the front and a fullly legible postmark. The reverse has a brief message from the writer to his correspondent in France. Aged, but beautiful. Grade: 2

Code: 20523024
Price: $65.00
Corfu
Unused real photo card, and the only printing on the reverse are three rubber-stamped words “Platane Gastouri Corfou.” Grade: 1

Code: 20523025
Price: $9.50
1913 battle
Google is surprisingly unhelpful about the background to this event, or we just don’t understand. Probably the latter. Presume the unused card was printed after 1913–but not much later. Heavily aged on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 20523026
Price: $16.00
Salonica, Tower of Kouchakli-Kouli and Byzantine wall
Looks like this card was produced in Paris. An extensive message was written, probably in 1917, in French on the reverse but the card was not postally mailed. This is the second part of the message; the first part is on card 20523028. If both are still available, you can have them together for $20. Grade: 4

Code: 20523027
Price: $15.00
Salonica, Oriental hairdressing
B&W card definitely no later than 1917 as it contains the first part of a long message in French that continues on Greece card 027. We wonder whether anyone spots the irony in the card’s caption. Grade: 4

Code: 20523028
Price: $14.00
Mistras, The Palace
Unused but aging B&W real photo card was bought in 1969 though definitely looks a lot older. Grade: 3

Code: 20523029
Price: $4.00
Santorini, road to Phira
Unused but aging B&W real photo card was bought in 1969 though definitely looks older. Grade: 3

Code: 20523030
Price: $5.00
Athens, Erechtee
In April, 1907, a gentleman wrote a message to “Petite Suzette Cherie” in Paris about his thoughts, which don’t seem to have much to do with Greece but are interesting nonetheless. This card was not postally mailed, and may not be as old as the Erechtee, but almost looks like it. Grade: 4

Code: 20523031
Price: $9.00
Athens, Theatre of Bacchus
Unused card of a certain age. We wonder if they allowed wine to be sold? Grade: 2

Code: 20523032
Price: $8.00
Rhodes, general view
This antique postcard was not postally mailed but has messages, in French, on the front and back, rightfully describing Rhodes as a land of windmills. One hopes Mlle. Louise was able to receive the card. Grade: 4

Code: 20523033
Price: $18.50
Salonica, folio
Very hard to price this but if you’re a Salonica specialist, you’d want it. Let’s start at the beginning. Twelve old (early 1900s) cards remain from what may have been a set of 13 or 14, printed in Paris, all attached through perforations and a staple along the top edge. A small rubber stamp on the outer binding (not on the front card itself) names a book shop in Sydney. The cards however were bought in Tokyo in 1980. So they’ve been around. And they have further to go. The price is for the set, not per car

Code: 20523034
Price: $22.00
Athens, Plaka
Unused and unattributed card from 1969. Grade: 1

Code: 20523038
Price: $3.50
Athens, The Parthenon at night
Unused and unattributed card from 1969. Grade: 1

Code: 20523039
Price: $3.00
Monuments
The caption on the front is in Greek so we’re not certain what these monuments are. The card has an extensive message, and address, written in French in 1921. A stamp may or may not have been there, but it’s not there now; and there is most of a postmark. Grade: 4

Code: 20523043
Price: $8.00
Athens, The Parthenon
In the days of photos developed on paper, imagine working in the kiosk near here and printing the same picture day after day, hour after hour … hooray for digital! Unused and unattributed card from 1969. Grade: 1

Code: 20523044
Price: $3.00
Delphi, The Tholos of Marmaria
Unused and unattributed card from 1969, but aging a bit more than usual on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 20523045
Price: $3.00
Athens, multiple views
Individually, maybe not too exciting; but collectively, and with the caption in Greek, a nicer unused and unatttributed card from 1969. Grade: 1

Code: 20523046
Price: $3.50
House
Looking eerily like a painting, this photo by Georges Meis is on a 4.75″ x 6.7″ card mailed from England in 1984 with stamp and full Kensington postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 20523047
Price: $2.50
Patmos
Contemporary, mailed card with stamp and faint largely unreadable postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20523048
Price: $2.00

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