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So Long!
“A Genuine ‘Elmer Anderson’ Comic Post Card,” No. 88, from Iowa, unused. Grade: 1
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Oh, How I wish you were here!
Card was mailed. Postmark is there. Stamp isn’t. Grade: 4
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Wisconsin Dells, native American cartoon
We sort of would like to say something, but we’ll let it go. The outhouse is a clue. Unused and unattributed card. Grade: 2
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Hillbilly Livin’ in the Ozarks (USA)
Nothing wrong with the card (mailed in 2012, stamps and postmark there) though sometimes we think outhouse cards like this should be barred from leaving their own state. Never mind, we’re not that rigid. Grade: 1
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Stiff Neck (set) – front cover (China)
The title is ours, not a direct translation. The back cover shows individual cards, though very small (30600207B), and quite a few familiar cartoon and real human caricatures appear in this set of 30 unused cards. We assume there are 30, but the original packaging is unopened so we don’t guarantee. There should be. Grade: 1
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Stiff Neck (set) – back cover (China)
See 30600207A.
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How to have sex in public
British Postcard Humour, mailed in 2013 with uncancelled stamp, orange postal barcoding, and Royal Mail’s Air Mail label. Grade: 4
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Keep Smiling
A nice reminder to do just that, on a card mailed from Finland in 2013 with stamp, faint postmark, and blue Priority label affixed. Grade: 1
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Eden Bar
If you own a bar and want something to frame … a German card mailed from Belgium in 2013 with stamp, blue A Prior label, and faint postmark. Grade: 1
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Despite Eric’s best efforts
Well, it’s a postcard 🙂 Measures 4-3/4″ x 7-1/4″. mailed from Netherlands in 2013 with two stamps, postmark, and Priority label affixed. Grade: 2
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I’m in this bunch – Find me (USA)
Embossed, vintage postcard heavily aged, mailed in 1912 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 3
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Only in Alaska!
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Alaskan Moose
It has come to this in the United States, that the printed caption on this unused card has to point out this is a “Composite close-up view of a moose crossing the Seward Highway.” Why, we thought all American wildlife was this size. Grade: 1
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Cartoon airplane (Spain)
Mailed from Spain in 2013, with two stamps the postmark did not reach. Grade: 2
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Moj moz je strasten filatelist! (Slovenia)
Translation: “My husband is a passionate philatelist!” Card was mailed in 2013, with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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He sipped the nectar from her lips
There is a full 1907 postmark from the USA, and no sign a stamp was ever there. Maybe it wasn’t? Probably it was. Grade: 4
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Don’t Worry (USA)
Somehow — don’t ask — we have two of these very old cards. One has stamp and partial postmark (Grade: 3, $1) and the other is in similar condition but the postmark is better so we know it was mailed in 1911 (Grade: 3, $2).
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Sammy the Seagull (England)
We hope someone, somewhere, has written the definitive guide to Humourous British Postcards. If so, this one deserves a place. Mailed in 2013 with uncancelled 88p stamp and Air Mail sticker, but also orange postal barcoding on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Prairie Dog Watching
Mailed from Canada in 2013, with stamp and bilingual airmail label, but no distinct postmark. Grade: 1
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I couldn’t go wrong (England)
British postcard humour at its best on this unused W.B. 336 card. Grade: 3
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Stuck on Canada
If you live in a warm climate, you may not understand this; if not, you definitely will. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Metiers d’antan, Le general d’operette (Switzerland)
Unused card from Switzerland. Grade: 1
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Travaux et saisons
Unused card from Switzerland. Grade: 1
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Charmeur
Unused card from Switzerland. Grade: 1
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L’ouverture de la chasse
Unused card from Switzerland. Grade: 1
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Hi…from California Sun Buns
Unused Colorscope card S-5015. Yes, they have pretty much nailed California. Grade: 1
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Fingerpori (Finland)
We guess you just need to be Finnish … or reach the Finnish line … or something! Mailed in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and Priority label. Grade: 1
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If you can face this place in winters blizzards
“A Genuine Kromekolor Comic Card,” unused, proving once again that an outhouse is not as funny as it seems. Two of these are available. Grades: 1
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Too busy traveling
More from the outhouse genre, and somehow we have two of these linen Curteich-Chicago C.T. Art-Colortone cards 0B-H1809 (C-278). One is unused (Grade: 1, $2). The other was mailed in 1955, aging a lot but the stamp and postmark are there (Grade: 2, $2).
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Better send for another catalog – Mirandy
Unused MWM linen-style card GC409. Outhouses for the whole family. Grade: 2
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Here I stand, Forlorn and gray
Yet another outhouse card. This one, unused linen Curteich-Chicago 0B-H1805, aging gently. And we have two of them. Grades: 1
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This house watches over The fields of clover
Imagine having to spend your whole day writing poems about outhouses. Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 0B-H1808. One source dates this as 1940 and says it is one of 10 cards in the “C.T. Privy Series,” ref. Checklist of Curt Teich Linen Comic Postcards by Thomas O. Garnhart. Two of these are available. Grades: 1
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There are flies upon the corncob
Two of these unused linen Curteich-Chicago outhouse postcards 8A-H2052 are available. Grades: 1
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Busy Persons Correspondence Card (outhouses)
Unused vintage Tichnor outhouse postcard 72536. Grade: 1
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Just another pretty face … (Arkansas, USA)
Captioned “Hogs and Kisses from Arkansas”. Okay … Unused card. Grade: 1
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Wound Up In Kansas (USA)
Be reassured, nobody was hurt during the taking of this photo. According to the caption, “Variations of it show up in fields across the state”. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Kansas … Who needs a beach?
Now there’s a rhetorical question. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Missouri State Bird – The Mosquito (USA)
Not just in Missouri! Unused card. Grade: 1
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“Another Sightseeing Jackass” in Missouri
Trust us, there are times when we really want to make a comment but we just don’t. Unused card. Grade: 1
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You know your from Missouri
…when you spell “you’re” as “your”? Oh well, we might have trouble with “hors d’oeuvres” ourselves, but then again, we did live in Missouri before, too. Unused card. Grade: 1