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VII Jogos da Primavera 1955 (Maximum Card)
Unused official maximum card where everything is on the front; the reverse is blank. Minor foxing on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Yamaricuma ritual dance
Worthy of National Geographic, an unused card captioned in Portuguese and English. Further information: Yamaricuma ritual dance by “Suia” and “Trumai” women in the native reserve of Xingu. The card’s reverse is heavily browned with age. Grade: 3
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Iaualapiti young girls on the Tuatuari River
Unused card, showing its age. Grade: 2
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Suia Indian Girl, Xingu reserve
Unused card, significantly browning with age but otherwise unmarked. Grade: 3
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Young Marubo girl from the Itui River
Unused card, browning with age but otherwise unmarked. Grade: 2
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Araçatuba – SP – Estadio Municipal Adhemar de Barros
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Arapiraca – AL – Estadio Municipal
Unused, aging card. Grade: 3
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Andirá – PR – Estádio João Hermógenes de Andrade
Unused card, browning somewhat with age. The caption misspells part of the stadium’s name as “Hermógnes”. (It’s amazing how we discover these things.) Grade: 2
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Andrelândia – MG – Estádio José Gustavo Alves
Unused card with small round brown stains on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Araraquara – SP – sports facilities
Best that we just repeat the caption (sorry, not including unique alphabetical elements): “Ginasio de Sport ‘Castelo Branco’, Piscina e Estadio da Associacao Ferroviara de Sport”. The card was not postally used but has writing and rubber-stamp chop marks taking up most of the message area. Grade: 4
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Arcoverde – PE – Estadio Souto Maior
Unused card with two small round spots on reverse corners. Grade: 3
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Bandeirantes – PR – Estadio Comendador Luiz Meneghel
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Sao Francisco Church and Stadium Minas Gerais
Unmailed card that has a person’s name and address rubber-stamped on the back. Grade: 4
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Tourist points and city center
The front is good if you want much of Belo Horizonte on one card. The back of the unmailed card is full of writing and rubber-stamp marks from 1981. Grade: 4
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Estadio Magalhaes Pinto
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Host City World Cup 2014
Unused card captioned in Portuguese and English. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Vista noturna, Igreja de Sao Francisco; Mineirao
Unused card, beginning to show its age. Grade: 2
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Mineirao – Pampulha 63
Unused card. The “63” refers to the card’s own reference number. Compare this with our item #20203058, identical but for the border. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Pampulha, Mineirao e Mineirinho
Unused card with two small brown spots on opposing reverse corners. Grade: 2
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Mineirao – Pampulha 16
Unused card, with “16” being its own reference number. Grade: 2
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Mineirao Soccer Stadium
Unused card with two noticeable spots on opposite corners of the reverse. Grade: 3
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Igreja Sao Francisco de Assis; Mineirao; Mineirinho
As uninspiring as the photo is on this unused card, it’s one of the few to give the full names of these facilities, even with some background information. Two stadiums, one church. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Estadio Magalhaes Pinto 041
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card, aging and roughly handled over the years. Grade: 3
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Vista da Represa Pampulha, Estadio Minas Gerais
Not postally mailed, but with a very long message in tiny print covering the entire reverse. Grade: 4
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Estadio Independencia
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Igreja de Sao Francisco; Mineirao; Mineirinho
Not postally mailed, this card has a name and address taking up half of the message area. The bilingual caption–unusually for this series of cards–identifies Igreja de Sao Francisco as “Oscar Niemeyer’s Church” and the two stadiums as “Soccer Stadium” and “Sports Stadium.” It’s all there in Portuguese, though. Grade: 4
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Mineirao Ano XII
Unused card, aging, “Vista aerea do Estadio Minas Gerais,” and sponsored by Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Vista aerea do Mineirao
Not postally mailed, and with a name/address rubber-stamped on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Campina Grande – PB – Estádio Amigão
Unused, aging card with brown spots on two reverse corners. Holding 35,000 people, the stadium’s formal name is Estádio Governador Ernani Sátyro. Grade: 3
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Campo Grande – MS – Pedro Pedrossian Stadium
Pedrossian was governor of Mato Grosso state from 1966 to 1971, before the state was divided. As for the card, it’s aging and has two round brown spots on opposite corners of the reverse. Grade: 3
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Curitiba – PR – Vista aerea da Sede Esportiva Presidente Jeronymo Benoni
The stadium for Sociedade Uniao Juventus, on an older card heavily aged and with a large name/address rubber-stamped on the back. Grade: 4
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Florianopolis – SC – Aerial View
Not postally used but the card has a long message completely filling the left side. Grade: 4
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Garanhuns – PE – Gerson Emery Stadium
If you Google “Gerson Emery,” you get many entries for the stadium but none (in English, at least) telling you who Gerson Emery was. The stadium, however, opened in 1930. The unused card is somewhat later than that. Grade: 2
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Cataratas do Iguaçu – PR – National Park
Nice unused card with a bold Portuguese caption identifying this site as “Patrimonio Natural da Humanidade” and “Parque Nacional do Iguaçu”. Given that the falls span across to Argentina, there’s also the Spanish name, Cataratas del Iguazu. Grade: 1
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Irati – PR – Estadio Cel. Emilio Gomes
One of Brazil’s smaller stadiums, with a capacity (at that time) of 5,500 persons. Unused card, somewhat aging and with a very small notation on the back. Grade: 3
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Itabaiana – SE – Estadio Pres. Medici
The highly aged, unmailed card is not in great condition but how many cards are you going to find of this stadium? A person’s name and address are rubber-stamped on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Itaperuna – RJ – Vista parcial da cidade e Rio Muriae
Not postally used, but with a written notation (on the reverse) of the name of the stadium. Grade: 4
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João Pessoa – PB – Almeidao Stadium
Here’s a bit of Wikipedia information for you: “João Pessoa is the capital of Paraíba, a state in the northeast region of Brazil and home to 19th and 20th century Brazilian poets and writers … It took its current name in 1930 in homage to state president (governor) João Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, who was assassinated on 26 July of that year. It is the state’s largest city.” Unused but significantly aged postcard. Grade: 3
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Juiz de Fora – MG – Panoramic view
Unused card with tape marks and spotting after having been removed from an album. Grade: 4