Castles – Page 5 – Global Postcard Sales

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The Albanian Castles
Mostly in Europe, we understand items like this are (often) classified as “postcards” but Global Postcard Sales doesn’t normally list them since they are meant to be folded and somehow sealed together. The unfolded item is as you see in the scan, though we deleted some commercial information. If you were to flip that over, the reverse looks like the back of a normal postcard. Arba Editions 503, measuring 6-1/4″ x 8-3/4″ unfolded. Grade: 1

Code: 36000193
Price: $6.00
Istanbul, castle and bridge 34/1391 (Turkey)
Unused Keskin card 34/1391. Captions are in Turkish only. Grade: 1

Code: 36000194
Price: $2.00
London, The Tower of London from Tower Bridge
A very old, unused card and this time the problem is with the card, not the scan: the caption at bottom front is only about 70% visible. Grade: 5

Code: 36000195
Price: $0.50
Cardiff Castle from the Grounds (Wales)
Starting from the beginning, the card was mailed from Cardiff on 23rd September 1904 (stamp and two postmarks show this) to Buffalo, New York, where it arrived on 1 October, with another full postmark placed there. Pattie was the original sender, and this is one of those cards where it was OK to write the message on the reverse for inland postage but not if the card was going abroad. Which it was. See also our entry 20560018. Grade: 3

Code: 36000197
Price: $4.00
Entrance to Banqueting Hall, Kenilworth Castle (England)
Unused, aging Sepia Photo-Art Series No. 1053 from J.J. Ward. Grade: 2

Code: 36000198
Price: $1.00
Meran, Schloss Tirol (Italy)
Apart from what you see on the front of this real-photo card, there’s much more of a message on the back, mailed in 1922 with stamp and heavy postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 36000200
Price: $3.00
Barnard Castle, multiple views (England)
Unused real-photo card 4-478 by Judges’ Ltd Hastings, with each of those four views identified: castle and bridge; market cross; market cross again; and Bowes Museum. Creased through lower right corner. Grade: 3-

Code: 36000201
Price: $2.00
Leeds Castle, Dawn Mist (England)
Not only is this a nice example from among so many castle postcards, it has two (uncancelled) 1ST stamps just missed by the orange postal barcoding. Grade: 4

Code: 36000202
Price: $1.00
Castles of Sussex (England)
All six are identified on the back of this unused card, but for the benefit of search engines–and therefore of us–we’ll list them for you: Herstmonceux, Bodiam, Hastings, Pevensey, Lewes, and Arundel. We would like to see them all. Grade: 1

Code: 36000203
Price: $1.00
Pau (Son Chateau) (book of 20 photos) (France)
Due to the way these unused real-photo postcards are attached to the book, we can’t easily scan individual ones. But this is a detailed tour in and around the exterior and interior of the castle. B&W cards often, but not always, captioned on both front and reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 36000204
Price: $39.00
Okinawa, Shurijo Castle (Japan)
From a series of unused cards, captioned mostly in Japanese and Chinese, but with the key identification also in English (or we should say western letters). The castle itself and the surrounding buildings seem to be reconstructed. Grade: 1

Code: 36000205
Price: $2.00
Okinawa, Ruin of Nakijin Castle (Japan)
From a series of unused cards, captioned (usually) briefly in Chinese, then Japanese, then more of an often-colourful and enjoyable English. Also known as Kitayama Castle. Grade: 1

Code: 36000206
Price: $2.00
Okinawa, Shuri Castle (Japan)
From a series of unused cards, captioned (usually) briefly in Chinese, then Japanese, then more of an often-colourful and enjoyable English. Grade: 1

Code: 36000207
Price: $2.00
Okinawa, Shureinomon (Japan)
From a series of unused cards, captioned (usually) briefly in Chinese, then Japanese, then more of an often-colourful and enjoyable English. Grade: 1

Code: 36000208
Price: $2.00
Okinawa, Ruin of Nakagusuku Castle (Japan)
From a series of unused cards, captioned (usually) briefly in Chinese, then Japanese, then more of an often-colourful and enjoyable English. Grade: 1

Code: 36000209
Price: $2.00
Havana, Entrance to Morro Castle (Cuba)
One of Cuba’s most popular postcard subjects, Morro Castle turns up here in a distinctive view with the bonus of having stamp and 1935 postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 36000210
Price: $6.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, Sleeping Beauty’s Castle and Walt Disney
Official, unused card 0100-10470. Minor crease diagonally through lower left corner. Grade: 2

Code: 36000211
Price: $3.00
Gillette Castle state park (Hadlyme, Connecticut, USA)
Unused. Online reviews make this look like a good place for families to visit, but you need to know about Sherlock Holmes … Grade: 1

Code: 36000212
Price: $1.00
The Castle of Rozafa, Shkodra (Albania)
Unused Aeditions card 264. This is one of the few in which the publisher actually identifies the scene. Grade: 1

Code: 36000213
Price: $3.00
The Castle of Rozafa, Shkodra (Albania)
This unused Aeditions postcard 1087 is one of our contemporary Albanian favourites because the design makes it look like it’s a 3D perspective, even though it is firmly 2D. Caption says the castle dates from the 4th Century. Grade: 1

Code: 36000214
Price: $4.00
Dresden, Elbschlosser (Germany)
All scenes are identified (in German) in the caption on the back of the card. It was mailed in 2018 with two se-tenant stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 36000215
Price: $2.00
The Castle of Berat (Albania)
Walk around up here during cherry season. You won’t regret it. We have four of these unused castle postcards from 1989. Two are smudged on the backs, from handling (Grades: 3, $4) and the other two are cleaner (Grades: 1, $6).

Code: 36000216
Price: $4.00
Ali Pasha’s Castle, Butrint (Albania)
This unused 1984 card’s caption just says (in Albanian and English) “View of Butrint”, but quick research tells us this is Ali Pasha’s Castle, a focal point at this location. Grade: 1

Code: 36000217
Price: $6.00
View of Petrela, Tirana (Albania)
It just depends on the postcard whether this castle is “claimed” by Tirana or not. In this case, yes. Unused 1984 card, very heavily handled over time, but look what it’s been through. If postcards could talk … more than they already do. Grade: 3

Code: 36000218
Price: $7.00
The castle of Petrela, Tirana (Albania)
Unused 1988 card from Shtepia Botuese. Aging appropriately. Grade: 2

Code: 36000219
Price: $7.00
Charles Bridge and Hradcany (Prague, Czech Republic)
Unused card measuring 4-1/8″ x 8-1/4″ and captioned in 12 languages. Sorry if yours is not one of them! Grade: 1

Code: 36000220
Price: $3.00
Mikhailovsky Castle and Monument to Peter the Great, St. Petersburg (Russia)
Russian postcards do often focus on the historical. Here, a contemporary card captioned in six languages and mailed in 2014 with two different stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 36000221
Price: $2.00
Gallery in Gjirokaster’s castle (Albania)
A 1978 card mailed in 1981, with parts of the postmarks there but no stamp. Not in very good condition, but just good enough to be Grade: 4

Code: 36000222
Price: $3.00
Kruje (Albania)
It can, unfortunately, be hard for postcards you mail in Tirana to arrive safely at their destinations. To some countries, as we know through experience, impossible. Not sure why that is, but there are ways around it. We have two of these Kruja cards, unused but stamped and postmarked from Tirana, ready for you to put whatever address and message you want, and send them to someone in your own envelope. Grades: 1

Code: 36000223
Price: $9.00
Ioannina Castle, Its – Kale Acropolis (Greece)
Three cards are available. Two are unused (Grades: 1, $1) and the other was mailed in 2019 with stamp and postmark (Grade: 1, $2).

Code: 36000224
Price: $1.00
Golubac Fortress (Serbia)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 36000225
Price: $2.00
Roumeli Hissar, Constantinople (Turkey)
Rumelihisarı or Boğazkesen Castle is a medieval fortress located in Istanbul on a series of hills on the European banks of the Bosphorus. The fortress also lends its name to the immediate neighborhood around it in the city’s Sarıyer district. And in 1923, someone wrote a long message, with address (we think), in a most florid handwriting — but the card was not postally used. Grade: 4

Code: 36000226
Price: $5.00
Hillerød, Frederiksborg, Baroksal, Baroque Room (Denmark)
Very heavily aged but unused and otherwise clean card. Grade: 3

Code: 36000227
Price: $1.00
Windsor Castle, Henry III and Round Towers (England)
Unused but highly aged and with an abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 36000228
Price: $0.50
Windsor, multiple views (England)
Unused. Scenes are identified in the captions, and there are some minor abrasions on the reverse. Grade 3

Code: 36000229
Price: $1.00
Postcards from Romania by Eugen Mihai (set of 10)
The ten glossy, unused cards in this set produced by Romanian military photographer Eugen Mihai are all shown on its paper cover. Each postcard has a complete and informative bilingual (English/Romanian) caption and represents one or another of a variety of scenes around the country — including a fortress, IAR 99 Standard military jet trainers, TR-85 M1 battle tank, Bucharest’s Palace of Parliament, Castelui Peles (Sinaia), the training ship “Mircea”, night view from Bucharest’s North Railway Station, Horezu Monastery, The Gate of the Kiss, and Hunyadi Castle. This great set came to us via our friend Tatiana, and — given the special circumstances of the cards’ production — if you read this and want to order directly from Mr. Mihai, we’ll tell you how to do that. Or, of course, this set from us. Grade: 1

Code: 36000230
Price: $12.00
Cantacuzino Castle, Busteni (Romania)
Mailed in 2021 with three different stamps and three postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 36000231
Price: $2.00
Schloss Neuschwanstein (Germany)
The caption for this card mailed a few years ago with two stamps and postmark is all in German but we’re thinking you might already know of this castle. What a colourful view! Grade: 1

Code: 36000232
Price: $2.00
Cardiff Castle (Wales)
Unlike 20560017, this card has the stamp and one heavy Cardiff postmark on the back, with the Buffalo postmark on the front. For whatever reason, on the back, Pattie crossed out “Post Card” and wrote “Printed Matter” above it. Strictly following our grading guidelines, Grade: 4

Code: 36000233
Price: $2.00
San Felipe del Morro Fort (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Unused card with bilingual English/Spanish captions. (In Spanish, it’s Castillo San Felipe …) Grade: 1

Code: 36000234
Price: $3.00

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