Cemeteries/Tombs/Funerals – Page 5 – Global Postcard Sales

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Bayreuth, Villa Wahnfried (Germany)
From Wikipedia: “Wahnfried was the name given by Richard Wagner to his villa in Bayreuth. The name is a German compound of Wahn (delusion, madness) and Fried(e), (peace, freedom). The house was constructed from 1872 to 1874 … The front of the house shows Wagner’s motto “Hier wo mein Wähnen Frieden fand – Wahnfried – sei dieses Haus von mir benannt.” (“Here where my delusions have found peace, let this place be named Wahnfried.”) The grave of Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima lies on the grounds of Wahnfried. The house has been a museum since 1976.” The unused sepia postcard is very heavily aged, but clean. Grade: 2

Code: 36100197
Price: $2.00
Roma – Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore
Unused, sepia, Alterocca card 107. Grade: 1

Code: 36100200
Price: $2.00
Roma – Chiostro di S. Paolo
Unused, sepia, Alterocca card 66. Grade: 1

Code: 36100201
Price: $1.00
Church of the Recessional, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale (California)
Unused C.T. Art-Colortone linen card 3B-H292. Grade: 1

Code: 36100202
Price: $1.00
St. Louis, The Basilica of St. Louis – King of France, Bishop Joseph Rosati (Missouri, USA)
This unused card tells us that Joseph Rosati’s “remains were buried (in 1970) in this crypt under the main altar of the church he constructed.” Not certain that the card shows the crypt, though. Grade: 1

Code: 36100203
Price: $1.00
Bala-Cynwyd, West Laurel Hill Cemetery (Pennsylvania, USA)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 36100204
Price: $0.50
Arlington, Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers (Virginia, USA)
Unused Capsco card K-8126. Probably early 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 36100205
Price: $0.50
Historical Postcard Collections of Hong Kong (set of 32)
We’re supposing this set was produced in the 1980s, from old photos. The cellowrap is gone but all 32 sepia unused cards are still bound in, and span a vast and interesting cross-section of places and themes, military, education, cemetery, ships, construction, waterfronts … so much. We will list this set in several theme categories, though without further explanation, so if it’s in a category you can be certain at least one card (but not all) meets the requirements. You will hardly find this set anywhere else–very scarce now. Because a price sticker lies over the original printed price, we’re assigning Grade: 2.

Code: 36100206
Price: $69.00
Canton, Aerial View of McKinley Memorial and Canton’s Park System (Ohio, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago card 1C78-N. Grade: 1

Code: 36100207
Price: $1.00
Lezha, Castle and Skanderbeg Tomb (Albania)
Unused Arba card 488. Bilingual captions. Grade: 1

Code: 36100208
Price: $4.00
Lezha, The Castle and Skanderbeg’s Tomb (Albania)
Unused Arba card 619. Bilingual captions. Grade: 1

Code: 36100209
Price: $4.00
New Orleans, St. Roch’s Chapel (Louisiana, USA)
Unused E.C. Kropp card 16987, noticeably aging but otherwise clean. Grade: 2

Code: 36100210
Price: $1.00
Concord, Grave of British Soldiers (Massachusetts, USA)
Unused vintage postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 36100211
Price: $1.00
Cemetery Bay (Norfolk Island, Australia)
Unused card issued by Australia Post, with “Postage Pre-paid Australia, for posting in Australia and delivery worldwide” service. Grade: 1

Code: 36100212
Price: $5.00
Ketchikan, Totem pole, Indian cemetery (Alaska, USA)
Mailed in 1911, with stamp and Long Beach postmark, great for collectors of totem pole postcards in particular. Grade: 2

Code: 36100213
Price: $3.00
Graveyard (Pitcairn Island)
Unused card with views of Graveyard, Bicentenary Commemorative Plaque, and Workshops and generator sheds at The Edge. Grade: 1

Code: 36100214
Price: $8.00
Multiple views (Pitcairn Island)
Views on this unused card include the “Bounty” Bible; Polynesian petroglyphs Down Rope; the graves of John Adams, his wife and daughter; and the Bounty anchor outside the Courthouse. All this and more is in the caption. Grade: 1

Code: 36100215
Price: $8.00
Multiple views (Tristan da Cunha)
Not to worry, every view on this unused card is identified in the caption on the back: Sunset and Government Avenue, St. Mary’s School and New Cemetery, William Glass’s grave, and “Rock” Hopper Penguin on the 1961 volcano. Grade: 1

Code: 36100217
Price: $15.00
Thatta, Mukhli Tomb (Pakistan)
The front of this unmailed card looks OK from a distance, though the card itself has a vertical fold and the reverse is full of writing and rubber-stamp marks. Grade: 5

Code: 36100218
Price: $1.00
Cairo, The Mamelouk Tombs and Citadel
Vintage Lehnert & Landrock card, serrated edges, unused, aged. Grade: 2

Code: 36100219
Price: $4.00
Accra, Views from Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s Mausoleum and Memorial Park (Ghana)
Unused card, older and beginning to show its age. Grade: 2

Code: 36100220
Price: $3.00
Petra, The Treasury (Jordan)
Unused card, captioned in Arabic and English. Grade: 2

Code: 36100222
Price: $3.00
Rabat, Mohamed V Mausoleum (Morocco)
Unused card, quite heavily aged. Grade: 3

Code: 36100224
Price: $2.00
Rabat, Le Mausolee Mohammed V (Morocco)
The unused card is exceptionally heavily browned with age on the reverse. Very atmospheric … but Grade: 3

Code: 36100225
Price: $2.00
Rabat, Le Mausolee Mohammed V, Vitraux Interieurs de la Mosquee (Morocco)
Unused Sochepress card 901509, captioned in Arabic and French. Aging. Grade: 1-

Code: 36100226
Price: $2.00
Rabat, Le Mausolee Mohammed V, La Releve de la Garde Royale (Morocco)
Unused Sochepress card 901.515, quite heavily foxed (age-mottled) on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 36100227
Price: $2.00
Rabat, L’entree du Mausolee Mohammed V et la Tour Hassan (Morocco)
Unused Sochepress card 901 033 (S 9.100). Aging but clean. Grade: 1

Code: 36100228
Price: $3.00
Morobe Province, Lae, plaques at the entrance to lae commonwealth cementary (sic) (Papua New Guinea)
Unused, official card from Post PNG in 2014. Grade: 1

Code: 36100230
Price: $6.00
Port Moresby, Bomana War Cemetery (Papua New Guinea)
Unused, official card from Post PNG, with pre-printed “Postage Paid – No additional Postage required” in the stamp area. (Strictly speaking, however, this was not true for at least one postal clerk, who insisted on K6.80 to send the card out of the country.) Grade: 1

Code: 36100231
Price: $6.00
Morobe Province, Mumeng District, Snake River Valley (Papua New Guinea)
Two of these official cards from Post PNG are available, showing “Customary burial ground”. The card has a “Domestic Postage Paid Papua New Guinea – Additional Postage required if sending overseas,” and the postal clerks insisted on full additional postage … OK, lah. One card is unused (Grade: 1, $8) and the other was mailed with two stamps and postmark in 2017 (Grade: 1, $14).

Code: 36100232
Price: $8.00
Manado, Warugas Cemetery (Indonesia)
Being more specific, “Warugas Cemetery, Airmadidi North Sulawesi”. If you do a search for Warugas, you’ll see different variants. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 36100233
Price: $4.00
Lookout Mountain, Grave of Buffalo Bill (Colorado, USA)
Among Buffalo Bill postcards, this one is as close to “fun” as it is possible for any postcard with a grave on it to be. In 1943, Margaret wrote to Helen about her visit (stamp and postmark are there) and strongly suggested how great it would be if they could both live there. (Presume she didn’t mean right at the gravesite.) Linen card, with a pencilled line through the street address. Grade: 2

Code: 36100235
Price: $2.00
Kosova – Land of culture diversity
Unused card whose bilingual caption identifies the Patriarchate of Peja; Mosque of Rahovec; Catholic church of Klina; and Bajraktar’s Tomb in Prishtina. Grade: 1

Code: 36100236
Price: $10.00
Tana Toraja, Lemo, Graves (Indonesia)
Unused Rainbow Postcard ES009. You might want to compare this card with our other Toraja entries. They can look similar, but they’re not the same. Grade: 1

Code: 36100237
Price: $5.00
The Giza Pyramids (Egypt)
The pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus, from c. 2500BC. The postcard is newer than that. Unused, Grade: 1

Code: 36100238
Price: $1.00
The Great Sphinx Guarding the Pyramid of Chephren
In Greek legend, the Sphinx devoured all travelers who could not answer the riddle it posed: “What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?” The hero Oedipus gave the answer, “Man,” causing the Sphinx’s death. Fear not; we have no more riddles for you. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 36100239
Price: $1.00
The Partisan Memorial Cemetery, Mostar (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Unused card, 4-3/8″ x 6-1/4″. Grade: 1

Code: 36100242
Price: $2.00
Objects under UNESCO protection (Bulgaria)
Unused card showing Rila Monastery St. Ivan Rilski; Church of St. Mary, Ivanovo rock monasteries; Thracian Tomb Sveshtari; and Thracian Tomb – Kazanlak. All that and more’s in the bilingual caption. Grade: 1

Code: 36100243
Price: $3.00
The Necropolis, Sofia (Bulgaria)
Unused card. Seems like The Necropolis was in use between the 2nd century B.C. until the 4th century A.D. Grade: 1

Code: 36100244
Price: $2.00
Soull-Tower (sic), arch, Niš (Serbia)
What they meant to print was “Skull Tower”, and it is a small but intense monument. We have two cards available. One is unused (Grade: 1, $4) and the other was mailed from Belgrade in 2019 with stamp and postmark (Grade: 1, $6). Both cards have a sort of purple stamped “chop” placed by the museum itself and showing what might be individual numbers for each card. Unique in that respect.

Code: 36100245
Price: $6.00

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