Border areas – Page 2 – Global Postcard Sales

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Rivera, Plaza Rio Branco (Uruguay)
Beginning a short series of unused, clearly very old real-photo B&W cards of this border city with Brazil. All cards are significantly aged but otherwise clean. Grade: 1

Code: 37600047
Price: $6.00
Rivera, Linea Divesoria (Uruguay)
Continuing a short series of unused, clearly very old real-photo B&W cards of this border city with Brazil. All cards are significantly aged but otherwise clean. Grade: 1-

Code: 37600048
Price: $6.00
Rivera, Calle Sarandi (Uruguay)
Continuing a short series of unused, clearly very old real-photo B&W cards of this border city with Brazil. All cards are significantly aged but otherwise clean. Grade: 1

Code: 37600049
Price: $6.00
Rivera, Hotel Casino (Uruguay)
Continuing a short series of unused, clearly very old real-photo B&W cards of this border city with Brazil. All cards are significantly aged but otherwise clean. This structure is still there, now called Rivera Casino and Resort, and surrounded by far more modern buildings. It gets very good online reviews, so go … but first, buy this card and bring it to them. They might give you a free spin of the wheel? Grade: 1

Code: 37600050
Price: $6.00
Rivera, Club Uruguay (Uruguay)
Ending a short series of unused, clearly very old real-photo B&W cards of this border city with Brazil. All cards are significantly aged but otherwise clean. Grade: 2

Code: 37600051
Price: $5.00
Southern Railway Train Along the French Broad River (USA)
The scene is near the Tennessee – North Carolina state line. The card is aged and unused. Grade: 2

Code: 37600052
Price: $2.00
Rock City Gardens, Lookout Mountain (Georgia, USA)
It’s funny about postcards from here. They are all quite cagey about which state this attraction is in. Even Google is not much help, calling it “Chattanooga’s Iconic Tourist Attraction” (Tennessee) yet giving the address as Georgia. We sort of understand why this is, and will randomly assign whatever cards we get to whichever state comes to mind first. This is unused “ShiniColor” card SK3904. Grade: 1

Code: 37600053
Price: $1.00
Ciudad Pte. Stroessner, Ciudad Jardin, El Puente de la Amistad y Aduana (Paraguay)
Unused older card, aging evenly. Grade: 1

Code: 37600054
Price: $6.00
South of the Border (South Carolina, USA)
We know all about tourist stops like this, but had never been here, so we did–what else?–we Googled. Seems to be somewhat past its prime, but here’s an unmailed card anyway. Two initials are written over the caption area. And if you’re wondering, this is on the border with North Carolina. Grade: 3

Code: 37600056
Price: $1.00
Suspension Bridge Connecting Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, KY
A quaint and succinct message on this card mailed in 1930 with stamp (a bit abraded) and full postmark. The card too has three other corner abrasions, likely from an album. Grade: 4

Code: 37600058
Price: $1.00
Pennsylvania Turnpike, Ohio “Gateway” (USA)
Not a lot on this unused 1960s Mike Roberts card C5519 to indicate one state vs. the other, but we’ll take their word for it. Grade: 2

Code: 37600059
Price: $1.00
Bedford, from Lookout Point Grand View (Pennsylvania, USA)
Unused, heavily aged Curteich-Chicago linen card 7A-H3934 (PA-4) showing “the most wonderful view in Pennsylvania”. Grade: 2

Code: 37600060
Price: $2.00
Looking South from White Top Mountain (Virginia, USA)
Unused linen-style card 42126. It says the mountain’s altitude is 5678 feet. Wikipedia says “5520+” feet. We suppose that’s what the “+” is for. Grade: 2

Code: 37600061
Price: $2.00
Nogales, Avenue of Flags, and Immigration Station (Mexico/USA)
Unused Petley card 79798, marred by three thumbtack holes through the middle and an abrasion (the scan doesn’t show it) on the upper right front. Grade: 5

Code: 37600063
Price: $0.50
Cataratas del Iguazu (Argentina)
Not postally used, but with a 2014 message written on the reverse. The photo shows Devil’s Throat – Upper and lower balconies. Grade: 4

Code: 37600064
Price: $1.00
Hamer, South of the Border (South Carolina, USA)
Unused Hannau-Robinson card 91752. “Largest free-standing sign East of the Mississippi!” And interesting online reviews, too. Grade: 1

Code: 37600065
Price: $2.00
Route 66 (Arizona, USA)
Yet another among Route 66 postcards, unused. Our index number is purely coincidental. Grade: 1

Code: 37600066
Price: $1.00
Shenzhen (PR China), multiple attractions (set of four)
Kindly get your coffee and relax because this description may take awhile. It’s a set of four unused cards, each measuring 4″ x 11-5/8″, so they are well oversized. The red paper wrap identifies this China Post product, from 2018, and our scan shows the front of one card (the other three are similar but with different places) and the reverse of another. All cards have pre-printed, coloured postage and a kind of “shadow” graphic further identifying most of what’s on the front. Clearly these cards fit many of our categories–in fact, they set the record–because Shenzhen is a city of about 15 million people and has everything, including a jumbo shopping complex called (variously) Lo Wu, right on the border with Hong Kong. So, if you have any questions aboout these Shenzhen postcards, please ask us. Grades: 1

Code: 37600067
Price: $14.00
Greetings from Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
A card for many categories, this one is aging somewhat, and unused. HTT-505 from Baxter Lane. Grade: 1.

Code: 37600069
Price: $3.00
Monument Valley (Arizona-Utah)
Unused card whose caption places Monument Valley on the Arizona-Utah border. Grade: 1

Code: 37600071
Price: $1.00
Scenes in Juarez, Mexico, Opposite El Paso, Texas
Showing “Scenes along the Sunset Route”, this old, sepia, Albertype card evokes memories of … a kinder time? Unused, Grade: 1

Code: 37600072
Price: $3.00
The Delaware Water Gap Vista (Pennsylvania, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 20215-C (7-272) of this view from the Vista on Mount Minsi, overlooking New Jersey as well. Grade: 1

Code: 37600073
Price: $2.00
Menton, Frontiere Franco-Italienne. Pont St. Louis. La Douane Italienne (France)
This card was mailed in 1952 from Menton and has two types of interesting postmark, but the stamp is gone and the card is heavily stained on both sides. Yet it’s a specialised and desirable scene. Grade: 4

Code: 37600074
Price: $3.00
Border City, Alaska Highway (USA/Canada)
Mailed, with U.S. 3-cent stamp and postmark but no clear date. Judy shared a secret with her Grandma, and we hope Judy’s mom got over her pique. Grade: 1

Code: 37600075
Price: $4.00
Harpers Ferry (West Virginia), and others (USA)
We’ve always had a secret fondness for cards like this showing multiple locations as opposed to multiple views. So here it is, unused, for you to enjoy, too. Grade: 1

Code: 37600076
Price: $6.00
Barrier Gate (Macau)
Marking the border between Macau and Mainland China. You should see this now. Wow. Unused, early-20th-century real-photo postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 37600077T
Price: $39.00
Lake Tahoe (USA)
“One of the largest and most picturesque lakes in the world” spans California and Nevada, and this card doesn’t nail that down. Mailed in 1988 (from California) with three stamps and an address sticker. Grade: 3

Code: 37600078T
Price: $0.50
Lake Superior (USA/Canada)
“The largest freshwater lake in the world”, says the caption, and we assume it still is — bordering Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan in the USA, and Canada. The card was mailed from USA in 1988 with two stamps and an airmail sticker. Most of a clear postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 37600079T
Price: $1.00
Kangchendzonga (sic) from Darjeeling (Sikkim)
We struggled a bit in deciding where to place this card, but were guided by Wikipedia: “Kangchenjunga, also spelled Kanchenjunga, Kanchanjanghā and Khangchendzonga, is the third-highest mountain in the world. Its summit lies at 8,586 m (28,169 ft) in a section of the Himalayas bounded in the west by the Tamur River, in the north by the Lhonak River and Jongsang La, and in the east by the Teesta River. It lies in the border region between Nepal and Sikkim state of India, with three of the five peaks, namely Main, Central and South, directly on the border and the peaks West and Kangbachen in Nepal’s Taplejung District. Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was assumed to be the highest mountain in the world, but calculations and measurements by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in 1849 showed that Mt. Everest, known as Peak XV at the time, is higher and it was officially announced in 1856 that Kangchenjunga was third-highest. The Kangchenjunga is a sacred mountain in Sikkim and was first climbed on 25 May 1955.” All that for an unmailed card that has an address written anyway, and while it could look like the bottom edge had been trimmed, we do not think that’s the case. Grade: 3

Code: 37600080T
Price: $2.00
The Rock from Frontier Gates (Gibraltar)
Unused old card from Rex Tobacconist. There’s an abrasion along the bottom edge under the word “Rock”, and a small tear along the top edge at the upper right. Grade: 4

Code: 37600081
Price: $3.00

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