Cemeteries/Tombs/Funerals – Page 4 – Global Postcard Sales

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Tana Toraja, Elaborate funerary rites (Indonesia)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 36100148
Price: $3.00
Greetings from the City of Washington (D.C.), Washington’s Tomb
A bit odd the designer would allow the card to turn out this way, but so it is. Mailed in 1911 with stamp and clear D.C. postmark, this large letter card identifies each of the attractions, giving us the chance to list it in several theme categories also. Grade: 2

Code: 36100149
Price: $12.00
Tana Toraja, Tau Tau ancestral figurines (Indonesia)
Unused card. See if you can spot the difference between this one and 20310289. Grade: 1

Code: 36100151
Price: $4.00
Absolut Graves.
An American ad card, unused. We so wish we had a great supply of all the creative and distinctive Absolut Vodka real and parody cards. But we don’t. Grade: 1

Code: 36100152
Price: $5.00
Buffalo Bill Museum, Lookout Mountain – grave (Colorado, USA)
Unused John Hinde card BB1, beginning to show a bit of age. Grade: 2

Code: 36100153
Price: $2.00
Virginia City, Cemetery (Nevada, USA)
Card 0127, unused, from the “Virginia City Series.” The word “cemeteries” is misspelled in the caption as “cemetaries.” Grade: 1

Code: 36100154
Price: $1.00
Gold Hill, Masonic Cemetary (sic) (Nevada)
Another spelling mistake. Unused V&T R.R. card 20. Grade: 1

Code: 36100155
Price: $2.00
Granada, Collpia Real Tumbas de los Reyes Catolicos (Spain)
Unused “Edicion Knackstedt y Nather” sepia card Serie 555, No. 6, with creasing at the bottom. Grade: 2

Code: 36100156
Price: $3.00
Tomb of kings, Kongmin (DPR Korea)
Unused card, captioned only in French. The tombs were built between 1365 and 1372, if that’s what the card means. Grade: 1

Code: 36100157
Price: $5.00
The Monument to the Renovation of the Tomb of King Tongmyong (DPR Korea)
Unused card, captioned in Korean and English. The Tomb of King Tongmyŏng is a mausoleum located in near Ryongsan-ri, Ryŏkp’o-guyŏk, P’yŏng’yang. (We did that research for you.) Grade: 1

Code: 36100158
Price: $5.00
New York City, Grant’s Tomb
Somewhere out there is someone who only collects postcards of Grant’s Tomb. We know you’re out there, and we hope you’ve found us, and that you don’t already have this particular card. It’s waiting for you, unused, Grade: 1

Code: 36100159
Price: $1.00
Colorado Springs, Helen Hunt’s Grave above Seven Falls (USA)
Helen Hunt Jackson was the author of “Ramona”. Unused Dexter Press card 13310-B (#3648), rounded corners. Two of these are available. One is unmarked (Grade: 1, $1) and the other has a round “Mailed at Seven Falls South Cheyenne Canon” chop on the back, even though it was not mailed. We won’t downgrade the card because of that (Grade: 1, $1).

Code: 36100160
Price: $1.00
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Wee Kirk o’ the Heather, Glendale (California, USA)
Unused linen C.T. Art-Colortone card 4A-H447, with a lot of information in a short caption on the back. Grade: 1

Code: 36100161
Price: $1.00
San Jose, Egyptian Rock Tomb, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (California)
Unused Mike Roberts card SC2596. Aging. Grade: 1

Code: 36100162
Price: $0.50
Springfield, Abraham Lincoln Tomb (Illinois)
Unused Curteichcolor card 7C-K2800. Aging. Grade: 2

Code: 36100163
Price: $1.00
Springfield, The Lincoln Tomb (Illinois)
Unused Curteichcolor card 3C-K1068. The fine-print caption takes up more than half of the message space. Aging. Grade: 2

Code: 36100164
Price: $1.00
Iles du Salut, Guardians churchyard in St. Joseph Island (French Guiana)
We have a few cards from Iles du Salut (Islands of Salvation), which include this one–St. Joseph–as well as Ile Royale and Ile du Diable (Devil’s Island), made famous long ago in real life and in cinema. St. Joseph is the second-largest of the three, at 20 hectares. We could go on, but if one can get past the cruel history, the place is without doubt exotic. Unused G. Delabergerie card 69, captioned in both French and English. Very atmospheric. Grade: 2

Code: 36100168
Price: $9.00
Gilcrease Mausoleum, Tulsa (Oklahoma, USA)
If you’ve forgotten who Thomas Gilcrease was, Google is there for you. This is an unmailed H.S. Crocker card SCC-207, though on the back the original owner has written the date (s)he went there, in 1967. Grade: 3

Code: 36100169
Price: $0.50
Claremore, Rogers Tomb and Memorial Garden (Oklahoma, USA)
Unused “local” card. Aging a bit. Grade: 1

Code: 36100170
Price: $1.00
Mausoleum Tongmyong (set of three) (DPR Korea)
Set of three “domestic” unused cards, with pre-printed postage. Captioned in Korean. Grades: 1

Code: 36100171
Price: $12.00
King Tongmyong (set of five) (Maximum Cards) (DPR Korea)
Set of five unused maximum cards from 1993, of which you can see at least the stamped part of all five in the scan. The caption on one says “King Tongmyong (Ko Ju Mong), the Founder of Koguryo entering the castle (Mural painting)” and the others have a similar idea. Grade: 1

Code: 36100172
Price: $22.00
King Tangun (set of four) (Maximum Cards) (DPR Korea)
Set of four unused maximum cards from 1995, with various aspects of King Tangun’s tomb. Captions in Korean and English. Grade: 1

Code: 36100173
Price: $20.00
Sioux City, Grave of Sioux Indian Chief “War Eagle” (Iowa, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago C.T. American Art card 5757-29-N with several abrasions around the edges of the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 36100174
Price: $2.00
Sioux City, Three State View from War Eagle Grave (Iowa, USA)
Better than a map, the card lets you know exactly where you are, as it did from a soldier to his lady friend in 1943 when he mailed it. The postmark is complete; there is no stamp, but it was not supposed to be there because, as a soldier, he could (and did) send the card for free. Grade: 2

Code: 36100175
Price: $4.00
The Badlands National Monument – Prehistoric Graveyard, Fossil Beds (South Dakota, USA)
An old, unused Albertype “Handcolored” card issued before they thought stock numbers would be necessary. Grade: 2

Code: 36100178
Price: $1.00
Cheapside, London, The Crypt, St. Mary Le-Bow Church
From Wikipedia: Considered the second most important church in the City of London after St Paul’s Cathedral, St-Mary-le-Bow was one of the first churches to be rebuilt by Christopher Wren. The current building was built to the designs of Wren between 1671 and 1673; the 223-foot (68 m) steeple was completed in 1680. In 1914, a stone from the crypt of St Mary-le-Bow church was placed in Trinity Church, New York. This unused London Stereoscopic Company card, heavily aged and as atmospheric as its subject, shows the centre transept of the Norman crypt, A.D. 1090. Grade: 2

Code: 36100179
Price: $4.00
Cheapside, London, The Crypt, St. Mary Le-Bow Church (horizontal view)
See description for 36100179. Grade: 2

Code: 36100180
Price: $4.00
Guayaquil, The cemetery (Ecuador)
Unused near-vintage postcard. The caption is in Spanish and English, which says “The cemetery, among the best of South America”. Presume they did a customer satisfaction study. Slight foxing on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 36100181
Price: $4.00
Salzburg, tomb (Austria)
Apart from having the caption in an Old German script, the card itelf looks absolutely ancient on both sides. The stamp and postmark are there. We’re not certain of the date, but the postmark shows 8.VII.’1-9 (can you translate that for us?). A legend down the middle reverse suggests the postcard dates from 1921. Grade: 2

Code: 36100182
Price: $5.00
Machupicchu, Funeral rock (Peru)
Unused Corbacho card A 0020 from 1980. Aging but otherwise clean. Grade: 1

Code: 36100184
Price: $3.00
Cusco, Inca Mummy (Peru)
Unused, aged Corbacho card 0059 from 1976. Grade: 3

Code: 36100185
Price: $9.00
Kamaiura Indians from the High Xingu (Dance of the Deaths) (Brazil)
Unused, aged and with minor foxing on the reverse. Unusual. Grade: 2

Code: 36100186
Price: $9.00
London, Westminster Abbey, Cradle Tomb
Unused old sepia card. Aged. (Somehow, that fits.) Grade: 1

Code: 36100187
Price: $1.00
Tower of London, Chapel of St. Peter
As the caption of this unused Gale & Polden card 1859 tells us, “Beneath the altar of the Chapel of St. Peter-ad-Vincula lie the remains of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Lady Jane Grey, and the Duke of Monmouth.” Grade: 2

Code: 36100188
Price: $2.00
Paris, Ste. Chapelle – La Crypte
Unused old sepia card. Grade: 1

Code: 36100190
Price: $1.00
Carmel, Carmel Mission, Serra Memorial Sarcophagus (California)
Unused H.S. Crocker postcard CA-145. Grade: 1

Code: 36100191
Price: $0.50
Philadelphia, Christ Church Cemetery, Plaque near Benjamin Franklin’s Grave (USA)
Unused, aging Mike Roberts card PH1-23-PL. Grade: 2

Code: 36100193
Price: $0.50
Roskilde Domkirke, Christian IV’ Kapel (Denmark)
Unused, ancient sepia card. Upper edge is perforated, so it came from a set. Grade: 1

Code: 36100194
Price: $2.00
Stoke Poges, Gray’s Tomb in “The Country Churchyard” (England)
Here’s something from Wikipedia: “(Thomas) Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ is believed to have been written in the churchyard of the Church of England parish church of Saint Giles in Stoke Poges. Other churches have claimed the honor, including Everdon, Northamptonshire. Gray is buried at St Giles. John Penn of Stoke had built a large monument displaying the Elegy nearby.” As for the card, unused, aged, unattributed, unnumbered, and clean. Grade: 1

Code: 36100195
Price: $1.00
Lisieux, Chapelle et Chasse de Ste Therese (France)
St. Therese lived at the convent from 9th April 1888, until 30th September 1897, a Carmelite Sister. Some or all of her remains are interred here. The card itself was mailed in 1930, with stamp and double postmark. We could call this postcard a relic in itself, a “must” for devotees. Grade: 1

Code: 36100196
Price: $5.00

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