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Belo Horizonte – MG – Parque Mangabeiras
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Praca da Liberdade
Unused card. Shows some handling, but still: Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Nocturnal aerial sight of the center
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Mirante do Mangabeiras
A little part of us wants to say that the card’s producers didn’t do as much as they might have done with the setting, but it is what it is. Unused. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Oscar Niemeyer Building, Square of the Liberty
Wikipedia tells us: “Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, known as Oscar Niemeyer, was a Brazilian architect who is considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture”. He lived an extraordinarily long and prolific life. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Sete de Setembro square, Monument Pirulito
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Pampulha
Captioned in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, this unused card has a charming English translation: “For of the sun in the spillway of the lagoon of the Pampulha”. That will do. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Source of the Three Graces – Liberty Square
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Museu Abilio Barreto
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Praca da Liberdade, gazebo
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Praca da Liberdade
Oddly, these Belo Horizonte cards have no reference numbers of their own, and not-all-that-complete captions, so we can’t tell you exactly what this building is. We could spend lots of time looking it up on Google, or we could move on, so we choose the latter. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Praca da Liberdade 35
This card does have its own number (35). Unused. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Palacio da Liberdade
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Praca do Papa
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Parque Mangabeiras 123
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Parque Municipal
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Cidade Administrativa
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Casa do Baile
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Viaduto Santa Tereza
Did they just pay people to stay off the road while they took the picture? Unused card but has been handled quite a bit. Grade: 2
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Praça da Estação
Unused card, beginning to age. Grade: 1
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Bento Gonçalves – RS – Vindima (Vintage)
Unused, heavily aged card from “A Capital Brasileira do Vinho”. Grade: 3
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Brasilia – DF – Aspecto do Congresso
Mailed in 1978, this card is aging heavily but otherwise clean, with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 1
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Brasilia – DF – Foreign Relations Office and Ministry of Justice
Mailed in 1980, very much aged but with early orange postal barcoding, two full postmarks, and two stamps. Something for everyone. Grade: 2
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Brasilia – DF – Tres Poderes Square
Highly aged card, mailed in 1986, with two stamps and two full postmarks. Grade: 2
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Brasilia – DF – Multiple views
The views include the Ministry of Justice, night view of Eixo Monumental, and Alvorada Palace, on this card mailed in 1980 with three stamps, two large and full postmarks, and orange postal barcoding on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Brasilia – DF – Palace of the Itamarati
Mailed in 1975, with a typed message from a bored employee travelling through this “mas solitaria” city and sending a big hug to his aunt. What intrigues us is that he typed the card. Stamp, and full jumbo postmark. Grade: 2
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Brasilia – DF – Partial view of the South Lake
In Brazil, at least on postcards, all views are partial. Bilingual Portuguese/English captions. Unused. Aging somewhat. Grade: 1
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Chui – RS – Arroio do Chui
Putting the long Portuguese-only caption into Google Translate, we learn this is the northernmost point of Brazil. But as it’s the border with Uruguay, someone goofed — Uruguay is at the south. We’re not going to pursue this, but it is, somehow, a strange photo. The card was mailed in 1983, with stamp and all or part of two postmarks. Grade: 1
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Curitiba – PR – Churrascaria Pinheirão
Mailed in 1974 with stamp and parts of two postmarks. The card is aged and a bit scuffed on the back. Grade: 3
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Curitiba – PR – Luiz Xavier Avenue – Badly Mouth
Mailed in 2005, with a long stamp and partial postmark. The card has become heavily aged fairly quickly. By the way, the caption is in Portuguese and English, and the English part is as you see in the header. Grade: 1
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Curitiba – PR – Estrada de Ferro
Highly aging card, not postally used but with a name and address rubber-stamped into the address area. Grade: 4
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Curitiba – PR – Railroad Curitiba, Great Touristic Attraction
Unused card, beginning to show its age. Grade: 1
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Fortaleza – CE – Mucuripe Beach
Mailed in 1976 with stamp and all or part of two postmarks. Heavily aged. (It’s the paper stock they used.) Grade: 2
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Fortaleza – CE – Rafts on Iracema Beach
Mailed in 1984 with two stamps, two full postmarks — but no message. Grade: 2
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Iguacu – PR – Partial view of the falls
Mailed in what might be the mid-1970s, with partial stamp and partial postmark. Heavily aged. Grade: 4
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Joao Pessoa – PB – Tambau Beach with Tambau Hotel
If the name of this hotel is now Tropical Tambau (we think so), online reviews recently beg management to speed up the renovations. People love the location. (We can’t say.) The aging card was mailed in 1999 with two different stamps and two faint postmarks. Grade: 2
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Limoeiro do Norte – CE – Ano 100, multiple views
Three views and the logo are identified (in Portuguese) on the reverse of this card, mailed with two different stamps and large but illegible postmark. Grade: 1
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Londrina, Moderna Estacao Rodoviaria
The front of this card is nice, showing the bus station. The reverse, not so much. It was mailed some years ago. One of the two stamps and most of the postmark are gone, and the card itself is heavily aged and mottled. Grade: 4
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Maceio/Alagoas, Hotel Jatiúca
Mailed several years ago with two stamps and large but indistinct postmark, along with an Airmail label and the sender’s name and address on a sticker. Aging. Grade: 3
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Ouro Preto/Mariana – MG – Trem da Vale
Unused. Grade: 1