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Sao Paulo, Carnaval – Sambodromo
This flashy, oversized (4″ x 8-5/8″) card has English and Portuguese captions, and is unused. Minor creasing from handling. Grade: 2
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Santa Cruz Cabralia – BA – Memorial da Primeira Missa
Unused card. Grade: 1
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First Flight Lufthansa LH 6597 Salvador – Recife – Frankfurt
This is a specialty item about which we can say no more than what you see in the scan. Except: the reverse is blank but for a rubber-stamped “chop” mark with a sender’s German address. Grade: 2
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Rio de Janeiro, Dengue Fever
No, that title is not a mistake. On the front, and by size, this looks like an ordinary postcard. On the back, it’s a bilingual (Portuguese and English) advisory from the Brazilian Government on how to avoid contracting Dengue (Breakbone Fever). Unused. Grade: 1
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Rio de Janeiro, Panoramic view of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon
Unused but aging Editora Litoarte Ltda. card RJ-019. Grade: 2
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Rio de Janeiro, Sugar Loaf from Botafogo Beach
Unused, aging Editora Litoarte card RJ-005. Grade: 1
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Rio de Janeiro, Nautical Sports of Barra da Tijuca
Unused, older Brazil postcard of a less congested era. The front is OK; the reverse is aging and has some smudges but otherwise unmarked with handwriting. Grade: 3
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Rio de Janeiro, Highway with Sao Conrado District in background
Unused Editora Litoarte card RJ-039. Somewhat aging. Grade: 1
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Rio de Janeiro, “Paris Place” Waterfront Drive
Unused, gently aging Mathews Post Card Service item, no reference number. Made in U.S.A., with all wording in English, we went to Google to try to learn if this card had ever been for sale in Brazil. The answer to that is not clear. Mathews distributed postcards of many countries, which are easily scouted out in those respective countries online, but we’ve run out of time and energy to ask. Grade: 1
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Rio de Janeiro
On this very old, unused, real-photo card, we have what might qualify as an optical illusion. Just looking at the card in your hand, along the lower left, there is obviously some kind of caption but it’s unreadable. However when we scan the card, and enlarge the result, that caption springs into view and identifies the scene as Rio. Even a magnifying glass doesn’t quite achieve that. The reverse has some staining along the right edge. Grade: 3
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Rio de Janeiro, Pao de Acucar e Urca a Noite
In English, the header translates from Portuguese as “Sugarloaf and Urca at Night,” and if you hold the real-photo postcard at a slight angle, you can indeed make out some detail. In 1957, Helen wrote a nice long message to the Chamberlains but, by Helen’s written admission later, she forgot to mail it. What a shame … so the card becomes Grade: 4
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Rio de Janeiro, Urca District
Mailed from Argentina in 1980, the card’s stamp and indistinct postmark are there, as well as a genuinely inconspicuous thumbtack hole near the top edge. The sender wanted to make maximum use of the message space, and sure did that. Grade: 4
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Indios do Brasil: Kamayura
There’s an informative caption, only in Portuguese, on this unused card showing activity in the Xingu National Park of Mato Grosso. Unwritten with any message, but four significant tape remnants on each reverse corner; printed text is still readable, though. Grade: 3
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Indios do Brasil: Kamayura, flautas chamadas
Unused card captioned in Portuguese showing these musical instruments. Tape remnants on all four corners of the reverse abraded a small section of the caption but most of it is readable (and informative). Grade: 4
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Indios do Brasil: Kavante
Unused card, captioned in Portuguese, English, and German, of this group from East Mato Grosso. Four-corners tape remnants on the reverse, not too severe. Grade: 3
