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Mammoth Cave National Park, historic entrance (Kentucky, USA)
Unused H.S. Crocker card DT-40109-D (NPC-6-D). A name and 1986 date are written at the postage area. Grade: 3

Code: 32900084
Price: $0.50
Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain Caverns, Ruby Falls (Tennessee, USA)
Unused, older card 13762. Grade: 1

Code: 32900085
Price: $1.00
Mammoth Cave National Park, Lake Lethe (Kentucky, USA)
Unused H.S. Crocker card NPC-26. Grade: 1

Code: 32900086
Price: $1.00
Hellertown, The Long Bridge (Pennsylvania, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card K-12185, slight staining on the reverse. If you have any connection with “Lost,” you will appreciate the card’s caption: “The Long Bridge–about 100 ft. in length crosses the Lost Lake and over the Lost River leading into the New Room in Lost River Caverns …” We suppose, not lost any more. Grade: 2

Code: 32900087
Price: $1.00
Blue Mounds, Cave of the Mounds, Rare Black and White Ribbons above Frozen Waterfall (Wisconsin, USA)
Unused, aged, linen Curteich-Chicago card 7B-H111. Forgive us if the scan is pointing in the wrong direction but we’ve no idea which end is up. (Sometimes that applies to life, too.) Grade: 2

Code: 32900088
Price: $1.00
Park City, Park Mammoth Resort, Jesse James Cave (Kentucky, USA)
We looked up the (underlying) resort, and it’s still there, but with decidedly mixed reviews. Presumably nobody will say the caves are in need of renovation! Unused Tichnor Bros. card K-13099. Grade: 1

Code: 32900089
Price: $1.00
Rumney, Polar Caves (New Hampshire, USA)
Actually the caption doesn’t mention Rumney, and just says “near Plymouth”. We looked it up. You can thank us later. (!) Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 32900090
Price: $1.00
Amalfi – Grotta dello Smeraldo (Italy)
Unused real-photo card with a major crease through the upper left corner. Grade: 4

Code: 32900091
Price: $0.50
Multiple views (Pitcairn Island)
… and these views include Big Pool at St Pauls, Down Rope, Christians Cave, and The Landing. Unused official card from 2002. Grade: 1

Code: 32900092
Price: $8.00
Multiple views – Christian’s Cave (Pitcairn Islands)
The three items on this unused, official card from 2007 include Fletcher Christian, Christian’s Cave, and the hibiscus flower. Grade: 1

Code: 32900093
Price: $8.00
Postojnska Jama (Slovenia)
Unused Sidarta card A0171 of a cave that opened for visitors in 1819. Grade: 1

Code: 32900095
Price: $3.00
Santa Cruz Zambales, Sagrada Familia Cave (Philippines)
Busy on Good Friday! Unused 2002 card. Grade: 1

Code: 32900096
Price: $2.00
Okinawa, Cave of Former Japanese Navy Headquarters (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). Grade: 1

Code: 32900098
Price: $2.00
Përshëndetje nga Kosova (Greetings from Kosovo) – Marble Cave
We sometimes observe that one postcard fits many of our theme categories. This is one of those. Bilingual Albanian/English captions identify Kosovo National Park “Sharr Mountains”, Brezna Lake close Koritnik Mountain; Marble Cave (Lipjan); Mirusha Waterfall (Llapusha); Badovc Lake (Prishtina); National Park “Accursed Mountains”; Kucishta Lake; and a Sharr dog in the center. That should keep the search engines busy. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 32900100
Price: $11.00
Kailasa Temple, Ellora Caves (India)
Not postally used, but with a message written on the reverse. A UNESCO site. Grade: 4

Code: 32900101
Price: $1.00
Mulu National Park, King Room, Wind Cave (Sarawak, East Malaysia)
We apologise if this card winds up upside down, but we really can’t tell which way is up. Unused Crystal card CPC-014, 5″ x 7″, Grade: 1

Code: 32900103
Price: $3.00
Gunung Mulu National Park, Wind Cave, King’s Room (Sarawak, East Malaysia)
“Fantastic limestone formations” in the Gunung Mulu National Park. Unused card 741 from the Association for Intellectually Disabled Children’s “Scenes of Sarawak” series. Grade: 1

Code: 32900104
Price: $3.00
Mercer Caverns (Murphys, California)
Unused Mike Roberts cave postcard whose caption tells you more than we could: “Soda straw stalactites located in the Cathedral Room along with the ‘Slab of Bacon'”. Knowing that stalagmites go up and stalactites go down, we think this card is pointing in the right direction. Left serrated edge. Grade: 1

Code: 32900106
Price: $0.50
Mercer Caverns, Simon’s Thumb (Murphys, California)
Unused Mike Roberts card C18457 of “a beautiful stalagmite rising from a projecting white slab of limestone”. Perforated upper edge indicates the card had been part of a set. Flip this card around and it could easily have been labelled as a different part of Simon. Grade: 1

Code: 32900109
Price: $2.00
Salt Petre Cave, natural bridge (Virginia, USA)
This unused Tichnor Bros. Lusterchrome card K-7792 has a sparse caption that only mentions Virginia, so we dug deeper (sorry!) and everything Google turned up was in Kentucky. Adding “Virginia” to the search bar only informed us that Virginia has many such caves — so we can assume that the caption writer, like us, just gave up. Nice card, though. Grade: 1

Code: 32900110
Price: $3.00
Maquoketa Caves State Park, 17 Ton Balanced Rock (Iowa, USA)
Unused but with significant staining on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 32900111
Price: $0.50
Batu Caves, Lord Murugan (Malaysia)
Mailed a few years ago, with large stamp, obscured postmark, and blue bilingual Mel Udara label. Grade: 1

Code: 32900112
Price: $3.00
Parcul Național Munții Rodnei (Romania)
Because everything on both sides of this unused card is only in Romanian, and because it’s quite a “busy” card, we will just venture that this is the national park (Parcul Național Munții Rodnei) and based on the identifying captions on the reverse, the largest view is a cave (Pesterea Izvorul Albastru al Izei, or Iza Blue Spring Cave) inside the park. You can let us know if we’re wrong. But overall this is a superb postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 32900113
Price: $5.00
Cave of the Stone Sepulchre (Belize)
Also known as Actun Tunichil Muknal, on this unused card. Known locally as ATM, it’s a cave in Belize, near San Ignacio, Cayo District, notable as a Maya archaeological site that includes skeletons, ceramics, and stoneware. There are several areas with skeletal remains in the main chamber. Grade: 1

Code: 32900114
Price: $4.00
Peştera Urşilor (Romania)
Peştera Urşilor (Bear’s Cave) is located in the western Apuseni Mountains, on the outskirts of Chișcău village, Bihor County. It was discovered in 1975 by Speodava, a spelaeologist group. Bears’ Cave received its name after the 140 cave bear skeletons which were discovered on the site in 1983. This unused card measures 4″ x 8-1/2″ and is mostly promoting tours in Transylvania. Grade: 1

Code: 32900115
Price: $6.00
St. Michael’s Cave (Gibraltar)
Unused Estoril card 28. Grade: 1

Code: 32900116
Price: $4.00
Kuala Lumpur, Batu Caves (Malaysia)
“Daily visited by sightseers” (a massive understatement, particularly during the Thaipusam festival), Batu Caves may be one of KL’s primary tourist attractions as well as a deeply religious site for Hindus. Unused “Colourful Malaya” card SL-615 (22675) with a bit of age foxing on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 32900117T
Price: $8.00
Cheddar, Cox’s Cave, The Marble Curtain (England)
See our description for 2016548T. This is unused Photochrom card 76552. Grade: 1

Code: 32900118T
Price: $4.00
Cheddar, Cox’s Cave, The Mace (England)
See our description for 2016548T. This is unused Photochrom card 85059. Grade: 2

Code: 32900119T
Price: $4.00
Cheddar, Cox’s Cave, The Third Chamber (England)
See our description for 2016548T (England). This is unused Photochrom card 85056. Grade: 3

Code: 32900120T
Price: $4.00
Cheddar, Cox’s Cave, The Pagoda (England)
See our description for 2016548T (England). This is unused Photochrom card 85057. Grade: 2

Code: 32900121T
Price: $4.00

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