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Fireworks over Tower Bridge, Sacramento (California)
Unused Smith Novelty card S-054. Grade: 1
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Sacramento, aerial view from Tower Bridge down Capitol Avenue
Unused Smith Novelty card S-055. Grade: 1
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Donner Summit, Rainbow Bridge (California)
Unused Colorscope card S-23. The bridge was completed in 1925, and the three-line caption gives a surprising amount of information. Grade: 1
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Orr’s Bridge, Portland (Maine, USA)
Most likely, this card only has “local” appeal, with all that on the front, even though it’s an undivided back card mailed in the early 1900s with stamp and illegible postmark. Grade: 3
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Old North Bridge, Concord (Massachusetts, USA)
Unused, very old “local” card. Grade: 1
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High Level Span of Sunshine Skyway over Tampa Bay (Florida)
Unused linen card, whose caption is in probably the tiniest print we have ever seen. It’s not as though they needed to save space or anything. Aging. Grade: 2
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Suspension Bridge over the Mississippi River (USA)
Specifically, between Marquette, Iowa, and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Unused “local” card, slightly aging. Grade: 1
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Florida’s Sunshine Skyway
The Skyway is “150.5 feet bove (sic) ocean-going Liner Channel,” and there’s more if you need to know. Unused Curteichcolor card 4C-K1671 (FK.61). Grade: 2
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Shawnee Hills, cantilever bridge (Illinois, USA)
Not just A bridge, but “This world’s longest span cantilever bridge” crossing the Ohio River at Old Shawneetown, Illinois. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Sault Ste. Marie, Soo Locks and International Bridge (Michigan, USA)
Unused L.L. Cook card 70846 (1199V), dated 1964. Grade: 1
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New York City skyline with Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges
Unused but heavily aged Dexter Press card DR-4084-C (NY-125). Grade: 3
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Guine Portuguesa, multiple views
Clockwise on this unused vintage postcard: Ponte-Cais, Diogo Gomes, Aspecto parcial da Camara. Grade: 1
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Bissau, Vista da Ponte-Cais (Guinea Bissau)
Unused “FOTO SERRA” vintage postcard 134. Grade: 1
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South Wales map C8545, Devil’s Bridge
Mailed in 1999, with stamp and Welsh postmark. Orange postal barcoding. Grade: 1
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The Sunshine Skyway Twins (Florida, USA)
Unused “local” card of these twin spans over Tampa Bay. Grade: 1
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Rose Covered Bridge, Cherokee Park, Louisville (Kentucky, USA)
Unused card 13775N (V158). Grade: 2
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Pigtail Bridge on Iron Mountain Road (South Dakota, USA)
This old card was stamped (it’s there) and partly addressed, but that’s as far as the writer got. Grade: 4
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Natural Bridge, Virginia (USA)
If we were giving a “Postcard Award of the Year” for “Greatest hyperbole in a caption” it would be this unused Lusterchrome card K-4273, which among other things calls this formation “One of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.” The card is smudged on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Natural Bridge (no people), Virginia (USA)
Similar to but not the same as entry 32600276, unused Lusterchrome card K-4274, heavily handled. Grade: 3
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Natural Bridge, Drama of Creation (Virginia, USA)
Unused Lusterchrome card K-3427 with perforated upper edge, so it was part of a set. Grade: 1
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The Lost River at Natural Bridge (Virginia, USA)
Unused Tichnor linen card 70044, heavily mottled with age on the reverse. According to the caption, “No one knows where this stream comes from or goes to.” We think: some vegetable dye would help solve that mystery. Grade: 3
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Jakarta 95 Day (set of two) (Maximum Cards) (Indonesia)
Two unused Maximum Cards in this set (and we have two sets). One card shows Jakarta’s History Museum at Fatahilah Square, and the other the drawbridge at Kota Intan, also in Jakarta. Grades: 1
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Jiangyin Highway Bridge (Maximum Card) (PR China)
Unused maximum card from 2000 of this bridge over the Yangtze River. Grade: 2
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Huangshi Highway Bridge (Maximum Card) (PR China)
Unused maximum card from 2000 of this bridge over the Yangtze River. Grade: 1
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Rungra Bridge, Pyongyang (DPR Korea) (Maximum Card)
Unused maximum card from 1990. Captions in English and Korean. Grade: 1
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Pyongyang (set of three) (Maximum Cards) (DPR Korea)
Set of three unused maximum cards from 1997. Strangely–though we know we should never say this–two are captioned only in Korean, and the third (Rungra Suspension Bridge) in both Korean and English. Grade: 1
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Monmouth, multiple views (England)
Unused Salmon card 2-32-07-04, with Monnow Bridge, River Wye, Old Corner, and Wye Bridge. Grade: 1
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Beautiful Hereford (England)
Multiple identified views on this unused Salmon card 2-32-03-13: River Wye, Cathedral, Victoria Suspension Bridge, and The Old House. Grade: 1
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Hershey Park Rustic Bridge (Pennsylvania, USA)
Smaller (2-3/4″ x 5-1/2″) unused card, B&W. See also cards 10139102/3, complementing this one. All are clearly quite old. Grade: 1
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The Forth Bridge (Scotland)
Something of a specialty item, this Valentine’s “Phototype” postcard mailed in 1946 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 3
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Menton, Le Pont St. Louis (France)
Unused card. Grade: 2
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Leavenworth, First City of Kansas, multiple views (USA)
The seven views in this unused card include City Hall, the Leavenworth County Court House, Carroll House Museum, Hollywood Theater, Riverfront Community Center, Harvey House, and Centennial Bridge over the Missouri River. Conspicuously missing: a huge prison. Grade: 1
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Cedar Street Bridge, Peoria (Illinois)
Unused E.C. Kropp vintage postcard 23925-8 with ten views identified in the caption. Cedar Street is #6, and the Mississippi River Bridge at Cairo is #8. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Tennessee, The Volunteer State – Hernando de Soto Bridge
Unused, a card for many categories. Grade: 1
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Tijuana, Bridge (Mexico)
Unused old card with significant abrasion on the reverse and some on lower left front corner too. Grade: 4
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Bender Bridge, West Virginia (USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card SC2968 from Glass House Restaurants. Grade: 2
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Legg Bridge, Cullman (Alabama, USA)
The caption on this unused but aging card is quite detailed. The bridge was built in 1906-7 and again in 1922; and, now called the Clarkson-Legg Covered Bridge, the second-longest in Alabama. And yes, we know, this card appears in the wrong category. It’s a covered bridge. But we want to get on with the card entries. Grade: 3
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Hurricane Gulch Bridge (Alaska)
Rarely does a caption pack so many statistics into such a short space. One: the bridge is at Mile 284.2 on the Alaska Railroad. Unused, aging card with a small red smudge near the postage area. Grade: 2
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Newcastle-on-Tyne, Tyne Bridge (England)
Mailed in 1949, with stamp and postmark, this card is significantly aged but otherwise undamaged. Postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Cordoba, Roman Bridge and Cathedral (Spain)
Mailed in 2014, with a very large stamp and a postmark. Grade: 2