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Mallard ducks (Minnesota)
One can never have too many postcards of ducks. This one was mailed from St. Paul in 1992, with two stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Llamas (Ecuador)
You’re thinking, what makes a card of llamas worth $4.50? Well, three colourful overlapping stamps, a couple of very large maroon and partly legible postmarks, a date stamped by the local post office, and good condition! Grade: 1
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Witchetty Grub (Australia)
To the Pitjantatjara people, a delicacy. To us, an unused postcard. Grade: 1
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Crocodile (Australia)
Unused and quintessentially Australian card. Grade: 1
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Crocodiles (Australia)
G’Day From Crocodile Country. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Crocodile (Australia)
Three unused and slightly aging cards are available, with the now-familiar slogan: G’Day from Crocodile Country. Grades: 2
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Crocodile (Australia)
Yes indeedy, these things happen. Unused card from the 1990s. Grade: 1
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Crocodile and Greetings (Australia)
Also with a Greetings logo gold-stamped on the front, this unused card dates from the 1990s. Grade: 1
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Wisconsin State Bird, Mosquito (Aedes vexans)
Mailed in 2012 with $1.05 stamp, partly legible postmark, and address and other labels taped on. Grade: 4
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Crocodile (Kakadu, Australia)
Gold stamp overlaid from Kakadu Holiday Village in Kakadu National Park. Unused card rom the 1990s. Grade: 1
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Bullock and cart, Malacca (Malaysia)
Not a whole lot of these on the roads any more, certainly not in the middle of Malacca city, where they would quickly become hamburger. S.W. Singapore card M264 was mailed in 1986 with stamp but only partial postmark. Grade: 2
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Alaskan Sea Lions
Actually it’s a closeup of Stellar Sea Lions at Cape Chiniak, Kodiak Island. The card is aged, battered, and torn a bit on the bottom edge. It was mailed in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1967 with two stamps and full postmark. Grade: 4
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Jill the deer, Shawnee Inn (Pennsylvania, USA)
Mailed in 1958 with full postmark and 2-cent stamp. Some creasing from lots of handling over the years. Grade: 3
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Bull Moose (Canada)
Unused Plastichrome card P72132 with stain in address area. Grade: 4
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The desert roadrunner (USA)
Two unused Petley cards B14491 are available. One is Grade: 3 ($1) and the other is Grade: 1 ($1.50).
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Diamond-back rattlesnake
Unused Petley card 865016. Grade: 1
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Legend of the Sand Dollar (USA)
Three unused Plastichrome cards are available. One has a 13-cent stamp on it (Grade: 3). The others are unmarked (Grades: 1).
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A Camel – Line
Mailed from Iran decades ago, with two stamps. The postmark is indistinct and the card is frankly in terrible condition on both sides. Space-filler only. Grade:
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Wildlife of the Desert
Unused 5″ x 7″ Petley FantastiColor Print card K-999-CA captioned “Wild life in the Southwestern Desert.” Copyright date is 1958. Grade: 1
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Flamingos (USA)
Unused Ward Beckett card T-8-B. Grade: 2
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Whistling swans (USA)
Two of these unused Ward Beckett cards (T-32) are available. Grades: 2
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Parrots (Florida)
Unused Ward Beckett card T-11-a. Grade: 2
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Amish Country Animals
Unused card doesn’t specifically say these scenes are in Pennsylvania, but that’s where we got it. Grade: 1
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Ocelot
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Ocelot mother
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Legend of the Sand Dollar
We don’t always think of sand dollars as animals, but so they are. Unused, somewhat aging Curteichcolor card D-17507, with serrated edges. Grade: 2
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Rocky Mountain Mule Deer (USA)
Card has a perforated edge (so was once part of a set), and was mailed in 1973 with 6-cent stamp and full postmark. A little bit of postmark transfr on the front. Grade: 3
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Sea Horse (USA)
We suppose this card pops up all over the world with different printed locations, but this one happens to say it cpomes from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The sea horse should be happy to live there. Over here in Hong Kong, any of these poor little creatures would be snagged and immediately boiled up. Grade: 2
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Buffalo (bison) (Canada)
Unused card with a small tear on top edge. Grade: 3
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Kea (New Zealand)
Caption on this unused contemporary card calls this a “rather mischievous native bird.” We’ve no reason to disbelieve. Grade: 1
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Puma (Guatemala)
Unused but aging black and white card issued by Jaguar Inn (not our irony, we promise) of Santa Elena. Grade: 2
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Ocean Park Amazing Asian Animals, Hong Kong (set of seven)
Two of these unused sets are available, from 2010, each set wrapped in the original pre-printed cellophane as officially issued by Hong Kong Post. Each card has the stamp (with corresponding animal) pre-printed, good for mailing anywhere in the world–if you’re in Hong Kong, that is. Ocean Park is one of Hong Kong’s two iconic amusement parks. Grades: 1
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Pohjoisen lintuja, the common crane (Finland)
“Pohjoisen lintuja” in Finnish means “northern birds” (we think, thanks to Google) but we know this is a crane, and that the card was mailed in 2010 with a brilliant stamp, full postmark from Kuopio, and the address on an affixed label. Grade: 2
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Alas Kedaton Monkey Forest, Bali (Indonesia)
Four of these unused cards are available. We’ve been to this park. Yes, there are plenty of monkeys. More than enough. Grades: 1
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Cow (Netherlands)
A face that more than a mother could love. Mailed from Netherlands in 2010, with stamp and postmark. Some orange postal barcoding on bottom reverse. Grade: 1
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Ducks (Asia)
We say “Asia” because the card was mailed from PR China (stamp, full postmark) but we are not certain whether the card itself was made in Japan. Note abrasion at front top. Either way, it’s ducks. Grade: 3
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Bull Moose (New Hampshire)
Irregularly shaped card mailed in 2011 with 98-cent stamp and some of the postmark. USPS bar code on bottom reverse. Grade: 2
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Three trained porpoises, Marineland of Florida
Unused. Grade: 1
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Miami Seaquarium, Flippy bowling
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC 4572 (65451), aging. Grade: 2
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Singing porpoises (Florida)
Two unused cards are available, aged just enough so that we need to call them Grades: 2