Art – Page 6 – Global Postcard Sales

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Swimming figures
Mailed from Finland in 2011. Creases on upper right and lower left. Grade: 4

Code: 30400201
Price: $0.50
Caravaggio, The Beheading of St. John (Malta)
Unused Proud Publications Ltd. card S-3. Grade: 2

Code: 30400202
Price: $8.00
Nederlanse Spoorwegen 1956
Photo from 1956 of this railway car, but the card is dated 1994 and was mailed in 2011 with three stamps and indistinct postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30400203
Price: $2.00
Shel, drawing
This card measures 2-5/8″ x 7-1/8″ and was mailed from PR China in 2011 with two stamps and two full postmarks. What’s the right name for the style of this art? Maybe you could let us know? Grade: 2

Code: 30400204
Price: $3.00
Esmeralda, Musee Wiertz (Brussels)
Unused old Ern. Thill sepia card no. 15. Grade: 1

Code: 30400205
Price: $2.00
Girls, well, and goats
Now we know we should have taken a course in art appreciation in school, because we have no idea whose painting this is. Unused Photochromie card Serie 251, #3994. Some staining on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 30400206
Price: $0.50
Redhead
Unused, unattributed, unnumbered, unknown card. Grade: 2

Code: 30400207
Price: $1.00
Angel, beckoning
Not postally used, but Dorothy wished Grandma Carrie a Merry Christmas with this card. Grade: 4

Code: 30400208
Price: $0.50
1906, American Journal-Examiner
Not just another pretty picture, this unused card has a tiny caption on bottom front stating “Copyright, 1906 American Journal-Examiner” and on the reverse it says “Compliments of Hearst’s Boston Sunday American”. Heavily aged. Grade: 3

Code: 30400209
Price: $2.00
Windmill and boat
Unused card, unattributed but for the legend “Series No. 330.” That’s what we know. Grade: 2

Code: 30400210
Price: $1.00
Boats on canal
Unused card, unattributed but for the legend “Series No. 330.” That’s what we know, except that other cards also have the same number. Grade: 3

Code: 30400211
Price: $1.00
Warrior Attendant Plaque, Nigeria (Cleveland)
Unused card showing this 17th century bronze, from Benin, then on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Grade: 2

Code: 30400212
Price: $1.00
The Last Supper
Unused card. Grade: 3

Code: 30400213
Price: $0.50
Statements Gallery, Napier (New Zealand)
This 3-3/4″ x 7″ card was mailed in 2010 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 30400214
Price: $4.00
Russian Folk Kind Characters
Mailed in 2011 with two different (Russian) stamps, full postmark, and a happy face sticker on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 30400215
Price: $3.00
Batman comic book cover art, December 1943
So there is no misunderstanding, this is a postcard of the cover, not the cover or the comic itself. Mailed from Singapore in 2011 with stamp and fully legible postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30400216
Price: $3.00
If it hurts, I’ll hit it harder (David Choe)
Mailed from the US in 2011 with three different stamps, and postmark. Very minor postal battering. Grade: 2

Code: 30400217
Price: $3.00
S.K. Rusakov (Russia)
At first glance, this looked like the dark side of Disney, but no, of course not. Card was mailed from Russia in 2011 with three of the same stamp, and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30400218
Price: $4.00
Kerry Vesper, Espiral
Another piece from our good friend Kerry, who goes from strength to strength in his sculpting. He did not pay us to say this, and for that matter doesn’t know we are writing it, but if you want an investment more solid than housing or the stock market, consider his work. This card was mailed in 2011 with five stamps (three uncancelled). Minor abrasion on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 30400219
Price: $3.00
Blue Thread, Will Barnet (USA)
The painting dates from 1984, the postcard from 2005, mailed in 2011 from the US with three different stamps (including Garfield, to match the front!) and readable modern postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30400220
Price: $4.00
Happy sauna (Anna Rinne, Finland)
Two of these nice sauna postcards are available. One was mailed from Helsinki in 2011, with stamp, postmark, and blue Priority label affixed (Grade: 1, $4) and the other from Turku in 2012 with three small stamps and in similar condition (Grade: 1, $4).

Code: 30400221
Price: $4.00
Knossos, Cup-bearers, from the procession fresco (Greece)
One of a series of unused cards in great condition, given that they all have what looks like a pink postage meter imprint on the reverse for zero Euros. Someone will tell us why this is, but right now we don’t know. They were bought this way, so we call them Grade: 1

Code: 30400222
Price: $2.00
Crete, Heraklion Museum, The Ladies in blue (Greece)
One of a series of unused cards in great condition, given that they all have what looks like a pink postage meter imprint on the reverse for zero Euros. Someone will tell us why this is, but right now we don’t know. They were bought this way, so we call them Grade: 1

Code: 30400223
Price: $2.00
Crete, Heraklion Museum, Adorant from the peak sanctuary of Petsofas (Greece)
One of a series of unused cards in great condition, given that they all have what looks like a pink postage meter imprint on the reverse for zero Euros. Someone will tell us why this is, but right now we don’t know. They were bought this way, so we call them Grade: 1

Code: 30400224
Price: $2.00
Crete, Heraklion Museum, Prince or King-Priest from Knossos (Greece)
Unused card with 0.4 Euro postage meter imprint. Grade: 1

Code: 30400225
Price: $2.00
Crete, Heraklion Museum, Sarcophagus from Haghia Triada (1400 B.C.) (Greece)
One of a series of unused cards in great condition, given that they all have what looks like a pink postage meter imprint on the reverse for zero Euros. Someone will tell us why this is, but right now we don’t know. They were bought this way, so we call them Grade: 1

Code: 30400226
Price: $2.00
Greece in the 1950s – art studio
Unused B&W card, unattributed, on heavy stock. Grade: 1 (We must verify availability.)

Code: 30400227
Price: $3.00
colours of asia (Hong Kong)
Two unused 5″ x 7″ cards are available, promoting this 2011 exhibition. Grades: 1

Code: 30400228
Price: $2.00
Ukiyoe: Hokusai (set) – front (Japan)
Cardboard-wrapped set of five cards plus the set’s cover, of which this scan shows the front. See 30400229B for the reverse. For those unfamiliar with Ukiyo-e, we give full credit to Wikipedia for what we repeat here:

Ukiyo-e (浮世絵, literally “pictures of the floating world”^?) is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters. It is the main artistic genre of woodblock printing in Japan.

Hokusai was a famous artist (1760-1849). Unused cards. Grade: 1

Code: 30400229A
Price: $16.00
Ukiyoe: Hokusai (set) – reverse (Japan)
See 30400229A for details. This reverse scan shows the five primary cards.

Code: 30400229B
Price: $16.00
Ukiyoe: Sharaku & Kunisada (set) – front (Japan)
See 30400229A for basic details. Sharaku and Kunisada were two other famous artists who overlapped with Kunisada. Five unused cards plus cover, of which this is the front. Grades: 1

Code: 30400230A
Price: $16.00
Ukiyoe: Sharaku & Kunisada (set) – reverse (Japan)
See 30400229A for basic details. Sharaku and Kunisada were two other famous artists who overlapped with Kunisada. Five unused cards plus cover, of which this is the reverse. Grades: 1

Code: 30400230B
Price: $16.00
The Herd of Wild Animals (Fomin) (Russia)
Five stamps and two large postmarks on this card mailed from Karelia (Russia) in 2011. Grade: 2

Code: 30400231
Price: $4.00
La Liseuse de romans (Wiertz)
Translated as “The Reader of Novels,” Antoine Wiertz painted this in 1853. The card, not quite as old, has aged but is unused and otherwise in good condition. Grade: 3

Code: 30400232
Price: $5.00
Aix-en-Provence, Montagne-Sainte-Victoire / Cezanne (France)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30400233
Price: $1.00
La Montagne Saint-Victoire au grand pin (Paul Cezanne)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30400234
Price: $2.00
Zhurka drawing (Russia)
The caption for this mailed card is extensive and only in Russian. It has two large stamps, full and brilliant Moscow postmark, and address label. Grade: 3

Code: 30400235
Price: $2.00
M.C. Escher, Bond of union (1956)
Painting: 1956. Card: 1995. Mailed: 2011, from Netherlands, with three stamps but the faint postmark missed two of them. Grade: 2

Code: 30400236
Price: $2.00
World and Planet Distance (Rolf Unger)
Art Unlimited card from the Netherlands and mailed from there in 2011 with stamp and faint postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 30400237
Price: $1.00
Carolina Parakeet, James Audubon (USA)
Mailed from USA, two stamps and address label affixed. Perforated edges as though the card had been part of a greater sheet. Grade: 4

Code: 30400238
Price: $0.50

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