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Aquaduck Cruise Tours, Mirror Lake Dam, Wisconsin Dells (USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Valdivia, Rio Calle, multiple views (Chile)
Unused, contemporary card with a very large colour photo on the reverse as well. Grade: 1
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Port Arthur (Tasmania), M.V. Marana and the Penitentiary (Australia)
The vessel was launched in 2002 and it seems the highlight of any cruise on it is seeing this penitentiary. The card is unused. Grade: 1
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Istanbul, View of the harbour
Unused card, clean and unmarked but handled a few times. Grade: 2
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Chubut – Parque Nacional Los Alerces – Lago Puelo (Argentina)
This 4″ x 8-1/4″ card is unused and was produced in Argentina for Brazil’s Direção Nacional do Turismo, almost certainly for the Brazilian market. The extended caption is in Portuguese. Unlike most others in this series, this card is very heavily mottled (foxing) on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Intern. Boat Race in the Tigre Delta (Argentina)
Unused, aging, atmospheric, very old card. Captioned in English and Spanish. Grade: 2
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Buenos Aires, Tigre, Navegando en Catamaran (Argentina)
Unused 4″x 7-1/8″ card. Slight handling marks on the back, not so serious. Grade: 2
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Pcia. de Bs. As. (Buenos Aires), Vista del Tigre (Argentina)
Unused 4″ x 7-1/8″ card, beginning to age. Grade: 2
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Sea view at Aberdeen (Hong Kong)
Unused, older, Yat Sun Printing Co. card No. 330. Grade: 1
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Buenos Aires, Fragata Libertad, Complejo edilicio Catalinas norte, Hotel Sheraton
Unused Doble A card 3058 (4-1/8″ x 7-1/8″). Grade: 3
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Ushuaia (Tierra del Fuego), Vista invernal del muelle (Argentina)
Mailed in 1973 with two stamps and faint postmark, this 4-1/8″ x 7-1/4″ card is clearly aging but age-appropriately. By the way, if your Spanish is not fluent, muelle = dock. Grade: 2
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Ushuaia, La bahia de la ciudad (Argentina)
No additional notations on this unused Grafica postcard 160 (4″ x 7″), “The friendship post card”. Aging gently but stridently. In Spanish, bahia = bay. Grade: 2
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Valparaiso, Caleta Portales (Portale’s Cove) (Chile)
Unused, heavily aged vintage postcard. Grade: 4
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Valparaiso, Vista de la Bahia (Chile)
Unmailed, aging card with an inked notation from 1979 in the address area. Grade: 4
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Laguna de Tesoro (Cuba)
Unused card with two patches of tape along the upper reverse edge. Grade: 3
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Matanzas, “Guama” Tourist Center
Unused, aging card with two faint tape bits on the top reverse. Grade: 3
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Matanzas, Varadero Beach, Inner Harbors (Cuba)
Not postally mailed, with a long message on the reverse, and tape on the edge. Grade: 4
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Lelystad geeft lucht (Netherlands)
If you don’t read Dutch, the card says: “Our parking problem … Lelystad provides air”. Nice ad for the town, mailed in 2014 with five stamps, three of which have the postmark on them. Grade: 1
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Dock in old part of Panama City (Panama)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Xinjiang, Boating on the Karakury Lake (PR China)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Port of Kaohsiung (Taiwan)
Unused 2011 card produced by the Kaohsiung City Government. Grade: 1
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Rowboat (Finland)
From the Taneli Eskola collection. The card was mailed in 2014, but as often happens with contemporary Finnish postcards, the stamp wasn’t cancelled. (We should bundle them all up and send them back so someone can try again?) Grade: 4
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Sailing into History (Maximum Card) (Australia)
Issued in 2013, and mailed in 2014, with the pre-paid postage on the reverse. There’s a postmark, and the address label is pasted on. Grade: 4
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Anaheim, Disneyland, Congo Queen (California)
Mailed in 1956 with two stamps and Culver City postmark, along with significant postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Venezia, St. Marco Wharf – The Dawn (Italy)
Unused. Grade: 1
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Ponce, Yacht Club (Puerto Rico)
Mailed from San Juan to Brazil with two stamps and most of the postmark. Significantly aging. Grade: 2
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Buenos Aires, Partial view of port
Unused, older card 252. Grade: 1
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Fragata Libertad – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
On Rio de La Plata. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Mar del Plata, Fishingboat harbour (Argentina)
Unused card MP-11. Grade: 1
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Mar del Plata, boat and sea lions (Argentina)
Unused card MP-12. Grade: 1
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International Boat Race in the Tigre Islands (Argentina)
Unused vintage postcard 261. Grade: 1
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Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego – multiple views (Argentina)
Unused card whose views include the city, Faro Les Eclaireurs – Canal de Beagle, and Tren del Fin del Mundo. Grade: 1
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Bariloche, Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi, Flota Mercante (Argentina)
Unused vintage postcard, artwork. Grade: 3
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Floating Village (Hong Kong)
Unused, mid-century card. Such scenes might still exist, but far less common than before. Grade: 1
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Port of Kaohsiung – boats on river (Taiwan)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Fortaleza – CE – Rafts on Iracema Beach (Brazil)
Mailed in 1984 with two stamps, two full postmarks — but no message. Grade: 2
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Natal – RN – Jangada na praia de Ponta Negra (Brazil)
Mailed in 1999 with two different stamps and two partial postmarks. Minor postal creasing. Grade: 2
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Travessia Rio-Niteroi – Decada de 50 (Brazil)
An older photo on an unused, contemporary card. Grade: 1
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Serie 150 Anos da Ligacao Maritima e Empresarial Rio/Niteroi: Urca – 1981 (Maximum Card) (Brazil)
Unused, official maximum card issued by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos in 1985. The card is aging significantly, and has serial number 022095. Grade: 2
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Serie 150 Anos da Ligacao Maritima e Empresarial Rio/Niteroi: Especuladora – 1835 (Maximum Card) (Brazil)
Unused, official maximum card issued by Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos in 1985. The card is aging, and has serial number 012638. Grade: 2