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Milwaukee, Entrance to Lake Park, Light House and Lion Bridge (Wisconsin, USA)
Not postally used, but with name and message written on the back. Grade: 4
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Firenze, Ponte Vecchio (Italy)
Unused 4-5/8″ x 8-3/8″ card, with some age mottling on the back, of Florence’s oldest bridge. Grade: 2
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Taiwan
The card was mailed in 2012, with two different stamps, full postmark, and small airmail sticker. Postmark ink transfer on the front. Do you know what bridge this is? Probably in Pingtung County. Grade: 4
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Brooklyn Bridge, New York City
Unused Dexter Press/Gray Line card DT-91349-C with perforated right edge, indicating that it had been part of a set. Did you know that when the bridge was completed in 1883, it charged one penny toll to cross? Deflation! Grade: 2
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Alum. Chine Suspension Bridge, Bournemouth (England)
A gentleman mailed this card to a lady at Brown’s Hotel in 1906. The stamp is there. The London postmark is there. And the London hotel’s imprint of receipt is there too. Of note, the Post Office time of dispatch was 6 PM and the hotel confirmed receipt at 8:13 PM. Not bad! Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Entree de la ville par le Pont du Chateau (Luxembourg)
Unused old, highly aged and heavily handled “Maison de gros P. Houstraas” card No. 56. Grade: 3
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Valo on Jyväskylässä – City of Light (Finland)
This is actually a 5-7/8″ x 8-3/8″ ad card for the city of Jyväskylä, promoting “City of Light, Finland’s only event dedicated to urban lighting.” Apparently it’s to compensate for the dark autumn season. (Side comment, nothing to do with this postcard: for urban lighting 24/7, come to Hong Kong …) Mailed from Finland in 2013 with stamp, faint postmark, and Priority label. Minor postal creasing for a card of this size. Grade: 3
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Prague, Vitava River, Charles Bridge and Prague Castle
Unused card, small mottling on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver (Canada)
We have three of these unused Plastichrome cards P6977, a view from Brockton Point. One is Grade: 2 ($1); one is actually Grade 1 but slightly misregistered during printing ($1); and one is just Grade 1 ($3).
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Mt. Rushmore Memorial from Spiral Bridge (South Dakota, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card OB-H1845 with the most florid of captions. The designers were being generous to claim Mt. Rushmore as the focus of this card. Grade: 1
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The Dean Bridge, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Mailed in 1906, the stamp and Edinburgh postmark are there, along with all that message on the front. Valentine’s Series card. Grade: 4
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The Seven Mile Bridge Between Miami and Key West
Mailed in 1954 with two postmarks, but the stamp is gone. Grade: 4
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Greetings from Wichita Kansas – Douglas Avenue Bridge
This E.C. Kropp large letter card was mailed in what looks like 1946 (partly obscured postmark; stamp is there), and all of the attractions are identified in the caption on the back. Grade: 1
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Greetings from North Dakota (USA) – Liberty Memorial Bridge
Unmailed large letter card with an inked message on the reverse. The caption identifies each of the scenes in DAKOTA. The bridge is over the Missouri River. Aged, and heavily handled and loved over the years. Grade: 4
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Tsing Ma Bridge (Hong Kong)
Hong Kong’s most famous bridge, connecting the city with the airport. Unused 5-1/8″ x 7″ card. Grade: 1
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Estaing, dans la Vallee du Lot (France)
From the city of the former President of France, this card, many bridges, mailed in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and several postal processing abrasions on the back. Grade: 3
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Sydney, Harbour Bridge
This 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card was mailed in 2013 with three different stamps, postmark, and address label glued on. Grade: 4
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Moskovskyi Bridge, Kyiv (Ukraine)
This photoFabrique card was mailed in 2013 with five different stamps (two showing trains) and faint postmark. Grade: 1
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Edinburgh, Dean Bridge (Scotland)
A very old card, somehow looking younger than it is, but the proof is there: mailed in 1907 with stamp and postmark and some very nice handwriting. Grade: 2
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At the Hanging Bridge, Royal Gorge (Colorado, USA)
An unusually long caption on the back of this unused vintage postcard tells how and why the bridge is there, and why you see all those people. Grade: 1
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Mackinac Bridge, multiple views (Michigan, USA)
Mailed in 2013 with two stamps and postmark, the card looks like someone maybe sat on it, and the writing on the back is bleeding from high humidity or something. Grade: 4
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Tsing Ma Bridge (Hong Kong) (3D)
Unused 3D postcard of this bridge leading to Hong Kong Airport. No motion effect on this card (single photo). Grade: 1
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Nong Khai, Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge (Thailand) (Maximum Card)
Exceptionally from that period, this is not a set but a single unused maximum card, issued in April 1994 (Thai: 2537). Though the card itself is captioned only in Thai, you can get the locational information of this bridge spanning the Mekong River from both the stamp and the postmark. Grade: 1
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The Mackinac Bridge (USA)
Unused, but with “speckles” on the front from having been stuck to another card earlier. Grade: 5
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Interstate Bridge (Oregon/Washington, USA)
Specifically, ovr the Columbia River between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Not postally used, but with much of the message area taken up with a notation. Dexter Press DT-58457-C, dated 1969. Grade: 4
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Rock City Gardens, Swing Along Bridge (Tennessee, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 9B-H1356, abrasion on lower front left. We can imagine a few people found this more thrilling than others did. Grade: 2
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Drewsteignton, Fingle Bridge (England)
Per Wikipedia, Fingle Bridge is a 17th-century stone arch bridge carrying an unclassified road over the River Teign, within Dartmoor National Park in Devon. Only the name of the bridge appears on the unused card. Grade: 1
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Skinny Bridge, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
The bridge dates from 1840, and the card from 2013 with two stamps and a postmark. Grade: 1
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The Bridge, Deerings Oaks, Portland (Maine, USA)
Still a public park in Portland, ranked #41 of 64 attractions by Tripadvisor. Are there really 40 better ways to spend your time? We don’t know, we’ve not been to either the park or the city. But the card is in good shape for its age: mailed in 1915 with stamp, postmark, and the most minor edge abrasions. It seems hardly aged, and after some consideration: Grade: 1
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Greetings from Missouri, Eads Bridge
Everything you could want on a large-letter postcard by E.C. Kropp (27942N), mailed in 1941 with stamp and postmark. The sights in the letters are all identified in the reverse caption, including the Eads Bridge in St. Louis (the second “S”). Grade: 2
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Aerial View of Highway Bridge Spanning Connecticut River between Middletown and Portland (Maine, USA)
Unused B&W card from The Collotype Co. Aged but clean. Grade: 1
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San Francisco, Golden Gate With Crabs
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Did You Know? Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco)
Two of these are available from the popular “Did You Know” postcards series. Unused. Grades: 1
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San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge E-369
Golden Gate Bridge postcards. Could there be anything scarcer? Sure. Nice, clean, unused card. Grade: 1
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The Golden Gate Bridge – Full Moon and Fog (USA)
Unused. Grade: 1
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San Francisco, Golden Gate Fisheye Reflection
Unused card with an unusual perspective. Grade: 1
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CUENCA. – San Pablo (Spain)
Old (and looks it) B&W unused card with perforated left edge, so it came from a set. This is St. Paul’s Bridge. Grade: 3
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Saint Petersburg, Malaya Neva River, Birzhevoi Bridge (Russia)
Mailed in 2013, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 4
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Tower Bridge on map of Sacramento, California
Something for everyone on this unused Colorscope card S-5072. Grade: 1
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Sacramento, River and Tower Bridge (California)
Unused Smith Novelty card S-080. Grade: 1