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Cayenne, Rue du General de Gaulle
Not postally used, but with a message (in French) taking up the entire reverse. Grade: 4
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Cayenne, Palmistes Square
Not postally used, but with a message taking up much of the reverse. Grade: 4
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Haut Itany, Jeune Indienne Wayana (110)
Unused, authentic vintage “Editions des Caraibes” postcard 110, showing some age. Grade: 2
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Haut Itany, Jeune Indienne Wayana (121)
Unused, authentic vintage “Editions des Caraibes” postcard 121 from Cayenne. Grade: 2
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Regina, sur le fleuve …
Mailed in what might be 2002 with (French) stamp, partial postmark, and orange postal barcoding. Some postmark smudging on the front. Grade: 3
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Haut Itany, Jeune Indienne Wayana (19)
Mailed in 1988, with stamp, postmark, orange postal barcoding on the back, and postal creasing on the lower right corner. Grade: 3
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Indiens du Haut-Oyapock et de la region du Tumuc-Humac
Unused, unnumbered Mercator card. Aging. Grade: 2
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Indiens de l’Amazone et de Guyane
Unused, vintage Mercator card. Grade: 2
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Indiens du Haut-Oyapock et de la region du Tumuc-Humac (M3012)
Unused Mercator card M 3012. Grade: 1
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Wayana Indian (90)
Editions G. Delabergerie card 90, not postally used but with a message taking up the reverse. Bilingual French and English captions. Grade: 4
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Fillette indienne (515)
Productions Pierre Dubois card 515, not postally used but with a message from 1988 taking up all of the reverse. Grade: 4
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Indiens Wayana, Haut Itany (2160)
Desireable ethnic card, Editions des Caraibes 2160, mailed in 1973 with stamp and full Cayenne postmark. If we didn’t already have it, we would want it. Slight staining on the reverse (Grade: 3, $14). And, we have another card with the same picture and reference number, but different publisher (G. Delabergerie). This one is not postally used but an extensive message takes up all of the reverse (Grade: 4, $7).
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Haut Itany, Indien Wayana (17)
Not postally used, but with a long message taking up the entire reverse. Grade: 4
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A young indian girl
Iris/Mexichrome card 7751, not postally used but with a long message taking up all of the reverse. Grade: 4
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Ecoliers indiens
Unused Hoa-Qui/Mexichrome card 5052. Handled quite a bit over the years. Grade: 3
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Petite Hmong a Cacao
Until we saw this card, we had associated the Hmong people exclusively with Asia. The things we learn. Unless this one has a different meaning. Unused, G. Delabergerie 626. Grade: 2
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Indiens du Haut-Oyapock et de la region du Tumuc-Humac (M3009)
Unused Mercator card M 3009. Grade: 2
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Indian
Brilliant B&W real-photo card mailed from Kourou in 1970 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Le lanceur EUROPA II
Mailed from Cayenne in 1972 with stamp and full postmark. This card alone is almost enough to convince us to open a new “Outer Space” theme category. We’ll see … Grade: 2
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Indien coupant des pousses de canne a sucre
Unused P. Dubois card No. 514. Grade: 1
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Cayenne, Place des Palmistes (G1)
This looks like but isn’t the same as our entry 20207002. In this case, Editions des Caraibes card G1, mailed from Cayenne in 1974 with stamp and great postmark. Grade: 2
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Saint-Laurent, coat of arms
The French caption explains everything, on a card mailed in 1974 with stamp and full Kourou postmark. Grade: 1
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Cayenne, L’hotel de ville
Not postally used, but with a long message taking up the entire reverse. There is also an abrasion extending across the front of the card. Grade: 5
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Kourou, L’Hotel des Roches
Recent online reviews make this sound like a hotel, and place, we would love to visit. The card is vintage “Editions des Caraibes” 167, not postally used but with a long message taking up all of the back. Grade: 4
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La Guyane, multiple views
Mailed from Cayenne in 1985, with stamp and fully legible postmark. Grade: 1
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Ancien bagnard
Bagnard = Convict, on this unused P. Dubois card No. 535, somewhat aging (like the bagnard). Grade: 1
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Rura, aerial view
Unused P. Dubois card No. 519. Grade: 2
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Cayenne, Le marche central
Unused P. Dubois card 335. Grade: 1
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Iles du Salut: Auberge de l’Ile Royale
Unused P. Dubois card 507. Go to the search engines and see the most interesting things written about this place, and this establishment. Grade: 2
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Iles du Salut, Guardians churchyard in St. Joseph Island
We have a few cards from Iles du Salut (Islands of Salvation), which include this one–St. Joseph–as well as Ile Royale and Ile du Diable (Devil’s Island), made famous long ago in real life and in cinema. St. Joseph is the second-largest of the three, at 20 hectares. We could go on, but if one can get past the cruel history, the place is without doubt exotic. Unused G. Delabergerie card 69, captioned in both French and English. Very atmospheric. Grade: 2
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Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, entrance of the old Penitentiary
Unused G. Delabergerie card 87. Grade: 1
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Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, “Chinatown” on the Maroni River
The card has aged since it was mailed in 1983, but it has a commemorative (French, of course) stamp and two large Cayenne postmarks. Just more special than most, and not what one would normally expect from a “Chinatown” postcard. Grade: 3
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Orpailleurs – Passage du Saut Vata
Orpailleurs = Miners, on this Clic-Clap card from Kourou, mailed in 1997 with stamp and two postmarks. Grade: 1
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Vue aerienne des Iles du Salut
All three of The Salvation islands, including Devil’s Island, on this G. Delabergerie card 141 mailed from Kourou in 1971 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2
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Wayana Indian hunting with bows
This unused card from G. Delabergerie (#18) is captioned in French and English, and is one of the few we have that places the Wayana group (Haut Itany) in both French and Dutch Guiana. Grade: 1
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Saint Laurent du Maroni, The Church’s Square
Delabergerie card 86, not postally used but with a message all over the smudged reverse. Note that some cards put hyphens in the name of this town, while others don’t. This one doesn’t. The captions are in French and English. Grade: 4
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Roura Village
This card was not postally used, has captions in French and English, and message(s) taking up all of the reverse. Grade: 4
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Visages de Guyane
Lots to see in this unused card. Grade: 1
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Vue aerienne de Cayenne
Unused Editions Caraibes card 140. If you only want one card of Cayenne … Grade: 1
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Cayenne, Ecole Maternelle (Nursery School)
Unused, vintage, B&W view, unattributed. Serrated edges. Grade: 2