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Exposition “Odilon Redon, Prince du Reve”
Artwork from France on a card mailed from France with a Chinese message. Stamp and postmark. Orange postal barcoding. Grade: 2
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Pulkovo Airport is closed (Dmitry Shorin) (Russia)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and full Saint-Petersburg postmark. Grade: 1
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Tisk Severografia (Czech Republic)
This is one of those cards where we don’t know which way is up. The way we see it, we have a 25% chance of getting it right. Mailed from Prague in 2012 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Soldier with Boy (N. Silivanovich) (Belarus)
In the National Art Museum of Belarus in Minsk, this painting. Mailed from Minsk in 2012 with a hedgehog stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Captain Upton’s House (E. Hopper) (USA)
Internet card mailed from Netherlands in 2012, and the stamp is there but it was not cancelled. Address label affixed. Grade: 4
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Stylized Mao Tse-tung
Bear with us, here. This unused “Chiang’s Talk” card was made in Taiwan, but Chairman Mao definitely wasn’t. Grade: 1
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Ice cream cones (Taiwan)
Unused card, made in Taiwan. Grade: 1
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The Art of Instructional Design (Taiwan) (set)
This is a set of six unused cards, all linked together with perforations. The photo you see is two of the six cards–one of the B&W graphic, and another of the worker. The other four are different content but similar graphic style. If you want to see, just ask us. Made in Taiwan. Grade: 1
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Les Premices (Edouard Darviot) (France)
The painting is in Musee des Beaux-Arts in Beaune, France. The unused card is with us. Grade: 1
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Allmoge från Småland (Folk art from Småland)
1954 card mailed from Sweden in 2012, but instead of a postmark over the two different stamps, we have orange postal barcoding. Blue Prioritaire label. Grade: 3
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Mr. Brainwash horses (USA)
Mailed from the USA in 2012, with $1.05 stamp and smudged but readable postmark, along with multiple abrasions and barcoding on the front and back as well. Grade: 4
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Dorset, Cerne Abbas Giant (England)
It took us forever to get a card mailed from here. People seem reluctant to send. We wonder why? Mailed in 2012 with four stamps and air mail label, but no postmark. Some orange postal barcoding does however run through one of the lesser stamps. Grade: 2
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Silantyev painting, Gorskyi poem (Ukraine)
The poem appears on the reverse in Ukranian and English. Mailed in 2012 with four stamps and strong but hard-to-read postmark. Grade: 1
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Bacilev art, 1872 (Russia)
This vintage postcard was made in Moscow in 1982 and mailed from Voronezh in 2012 with six small stamps and three brilliantly large, clear postmarks. Grade: 1
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“Small Angel,” Anastasia Kichigina
Captioned in Russian and English, the card was mailed in 2012 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Hijo del Santo (Nancy Almazan) (Mexico)
Larger (5-1/4″ x 8-1/4″) card mailed in 2012 with two stamps and impressively large postmark. Despite some creasing, the card survived the journey well. Grade: 3
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Altas Montanhas e Quedas de Agua (Macau) (set)
This is a set of five unused cards, contemporary Chinese paintings by Sun Jiang Tao, as issued by Correos de Macau in 2012. The sturdy, high-quality paper cover wrap explains everything–in Chinese and Portuguese only–and one of the five cards is the same as this cover shot. Grade: 1
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“New York Movie” (Edward Hopper)
Mailed from USA in 2012 with stamp and mostly readable postmark. Grade: 1
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“The Flagellation of Christ” (Tintoretto)
Jacopo Robusti (Tintoretto) lived from 1518 – 1594. This card is from somewhat later than that, and is not really a postcard but could be used as one if one was so inclined. It measures 5-1/8″ x 7-1/8″ and the reverse is almost entirely taken up with extensive captions in five languages. We do not know where the card was published. No (human) writing on it, so not postally used. Grade: 1
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Pentagram of Death
An unusual Zombie postcard of the Bennet Sisters’ Pentagram of Death. Just what people enjoy receiving in the morning mail. Mailed from USA in 2012 with four stamps and partly legible postmark. Grade: 2
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His Brief Case
Australian art on a card mailed from China in 2012 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 3
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Wysoki Zamek II
The derivation of the art is Polish and the card looks like it was made in Poland but was mailed from Japan (two stamps, postmark), and we’ve no clear idea what it’s all about. Grade: 3
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Ohyamazaki Cottage map (Japan)
Beautiful regional map artwork. Mailed in 2012 with two different stamps and postmark. Grade: 1
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Re-entry of the Vostok Spacecraft, 1973 (Leonov) (Russia)
A painting by Alexey Leonov from 1973, on a card mailed in 2012 with five stamps and two Samara postmarks. Grade: 2
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Ostriches
American art on a card mailed in 2012 with five different stamps totalling $1.03, none of them cancelled; also a small black sticker on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Ancient Chinese Paintings … Syzygy of the Sun … (set of 6) (Maximum Cards) (Taiwan)
First, you might compare this with our entry 20325409, which was in effect Part One of this series from 2020. This latest version was issued on 19 May 2021, and bears the exact title: “Maximum Cards of Ancient Chinese Paintings Postage Stamps: ‘Syzygy of the Sun, Moon, and the Five Planets’ by Xu Yang, Qing Dynasty (II)”. Our scan shows the cardboard cover and two of the six cards in the set. Grade: 1
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Affe (Durer)
Albrecht Durer painted this picture in 1520. The writer of the card in 2012 finds it “creepy.” We wouldn’t go that far, but there is a certain oddness to it. Mailed from Germany with stamp, Priority label, and postmark. Grade: 2
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Nagoya, Tokugawa Art Museum, Set of Armour (Gusoku) (Japan)
Unused contemporary card of this 17th-century armour. Grade: 1
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Nagoya, Tokugawa Art Museum, Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu (Japan)
Unused contemporary card of this 17th-century portrait. Grade: 1
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National Museum of Korea, Lotus Flower
Unused 4-7/8″ x 6-7/8″ card, bilingually captioned in Korean and English, of this 19th-century Sin Myeong-yeon (Lotus Flower) art. Grade: 1
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Sky with Tulips (L. Voronova)
Oil painting on canvas, on postcard mailed from Russia in 2012 with stamp and partial postmark. Residue of a small sticker material on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Willkommen (Michael Sowa)
The card originated in Germany but was mailed from Netherlands in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and blue Priority label. Grade: 3
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Asian winter art
Of course there should be a more accurate description than this, but the card was made in Russia, captioned entirely in Russian (and we are lazy to translate), and mailed from there in 2012 with three stamps and full Krasnoyarsk postmark. Grade: 2
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Der arme Poet, 1837 (C. Spitzweg)
A painting in the German National Museum, on a card mailed in 2012 from Germany with two stamps and indistinct postmark. One of those stamps is of this painting, though this is not strictly speaking a maximum card. Grade: 1
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Flengel (B. Garcia Lopez)
German postcard mailed from there in 2012 with stamp and Priority label. Grade: 2
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New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum – Metallic Frost (Taiwan)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum – Stair (Taiwan)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum – Edmond Crucible (Taiwan)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Yingge Ceramics Museum – Pao-tsai Su (Taiwan)
Unused card. Grade: 1