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Harpoon Whale Gun used in Shooting Whales, Grays Harbor (Washington)
Not now, it isn’t. Unused Pacific Novelty card 2236 in excellent shape for its age. Grade: 1
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Braynard Lake and Arapahoe Peaks (Colorado, USA)
Unused linen Metrocraft card 48987, aging appropriately. Grade: 2
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Sailfish (USA)
Unused card of “The true sporting fish of Florida”. Grade: 2
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Tarpon in Mid-Air, a Thrill to all Florida Fishermen
What a strange-looking linen card. Well, anyway, it was mailed in 1947 with a 1-cent stamp and partial postmark, along with some mottling on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Bull Shoals Lake (Arkansas, USA)
Not the ultimate fishing postcard, but close. Unused Mike Roberts card C25184. Grade: 1
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Pyramid Lake Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (Nevada, USA)
Unused, aging 5-3/8″ x 7-1/2″ card whose message space is taken up almost entirely by a map. Grade: 2
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Crosby Lodge, Sutcliffe (Nevada, USA)
Unused, noticeably aging card, 5-3/8″ x 7″, showing the Lodge, Pyramid Lake, and the Crosby Saloon. Grade: 3
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The BIG one got away … (USA)
Unused Colorscope card S-2089. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Iowa, map (USA)
An iconic tourist map postcard, mailed in 2013 with four stamps, postmark, and the original barcode sticker from point of sale. Grade: 1
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Ei tuu kalaa, mutta ei oo väliä kään (Finland)
Loosely translated, “not getting any fish, but it doesn’t matter.” Mailed in 2013 with stamp and almost no postmark. Grade: 1
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Right Whaling (Anonymous)
Unused card 53478 (MA 1996) from the Hart Nautical Museum at M.I.T. in Massachusetts (USA). Aging. Grade: 2
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Greenland Fishery (T. Baston)
Unused card 53477 (MA 1995) from the Hart Nautical Museum at M.I.T. in Massachusetts (USA). Aging, and with a noticeable smudge on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Rock Creek (Montana, USA)
Look closely–very closely–and you’ll see a fisherman in the photo. Unused Dexter Press card 68265-B, whose caption goes on and on about trout fishing possibilities. Rounded corners. Grade: 1
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Pecheurs du Maroni (France/French Guiana)
Although we are listing this card under French Guiana, which is what the artwork represents, it was in fact mailed within Bussier Dunoise in France in 1903, with stamp and three postmarks. Please therefore note there’s no indication the card was ever in Guiana. It is, however, undeniably about fishing. Grade: 2
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Greetings from Boston, Massachusetts, map
This is one of our favourite types of postcard, something for everyone when you have no idea what to send. Mailed in 2013 with three different stamps and inconspicuous orange postal barcoding on the front. Grade: 2
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Suomi – Finland, multiple views, and fishing
Mailed in 2013, with a dark stamp, a clear postmark, and Priority label. Grade: 1
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Mickey and Donald fishing (Czech/Slovak)
This appears to be an unused, official Disney card (with a bar code in the postage area; also reference numbers 44, and Y 002) jointly made by Czech and Slovak companies. It has a similar but smaller printed cartoon of the boat and characters on the back. Grade: 1
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Jimmy Carter, fishing in Plains, Georgia (USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card C31615 (CL-1) of President Carter fishing in Miss Lillian’s pond in August, 1976. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Washburn, Wisconsin (USA)
Unused vintage B&W card. Grade: 1
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Creel and fish (USA)
Unused, unattributed old linen-style card. Grade: 1
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Puget Sound, loading salmon (Washington, USA)
Mailed in 1947, with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Greetings from The Natural State, Arkansas (USA)
Unused card with typical caption data about bird, tree, flower, motto, and so on. Grade: 1
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Bennett Spring State Park (Lebanon, Missouri, USA)
“Bennett Spring emerges with 71 million gallons of cold, clear water daily, providing a popular trout fishing stream,” according to this unused card’s caption. Grade: 1
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“Just Got One Today” (USA)
Captioned “Fishing’s Great!” Like the card. Unused. Grade: 1
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Åland (Maximum Card) (Finland)
Unused maximum card No. 5, captioned in Finnish and Swedish, and issued on 1st March 1990. Grade: 1
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Lake City, Fishing Below Kentucky Dam (USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P36775. We sometimes think we could open a new category called “The …est” and somehow each postcard would fit inside. Why do we say this here? Because this card’s caption–probably written in the 1950s or early 60s–says the Kentucky Dam is “Forming the largest man made lake in the world.” We Googled. It’s not even in the Top 10 now. Grade: 1
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This is living off the land! (USA)
Unused Scenic Art card C8700F, not written on but just very beat-up. Would anyone see the irony that this isn’t actually “off the land”? Grade: 4
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Mar del Plata, Banquina de Pescadores – Puerto (Argentina)
Unused card with fishing boats. Grade: 1
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Minnesota Fish Houses (USA)
As the caption says, “These villages on ice are the haunts of ‘Grumpy Old Men’.” Unused card. Grade: 1
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Bretagne, Maisons de Pecheurs (France)
Mailed in 2014 with stamp, postmark, and some orange postal barcoding. If you don’t read French, these are fishermen’s houses. Grade: 1
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Finnish Winter activities
Mailed in 2013, with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 1
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Mar del Plata, Fishingboat harbour (Argentina)
Unused card MP-11. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Cambodia, family life (set of 10)
This is an older, unused set of ten cards in a cardboard cover. Our scan shows four of them. The cards are captioned in English, with some French slipping in; and the cover is a little weatherbeaten, but overall this still qualifies as Grade: 1
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Greetings from Cambodia, countryside (set of 10)
Set of ten unused cards in a cardboard folder that could be cut into two more cards if you felt like doing that. That outer cover has been handled a lot, and shows it, but the cards (captioned in Cambodian and English) are fine. Our scan shows a sample of four of the ten cards. Grade: 1
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Crappies (Minnesota, USA)
“Hard-scrapping action for Anglers year ’round in Northern Minnesota” on this unused card. Grade: 1
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Hain’t never seen a man who could fish and worry at the same time
Unused Petley Laff Card C-119. Some sort of streak in the address area. Grade: 2
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Cintas Largas, fishing (Brazil)
Unused, aging card with a Portuguese-language caption describing what these fishermen are doing, and where. Grade: 2
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A typical Maine fishing village (USA)
Unused older Dexter Press card 7677-B (M-1073), with serrated edges all around. Shows some aging. Grade: 1
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Monterey Bay, Fishing boats at anchor (California)
Unused H.S. Crocker card C-186, aging and with a small diagonal crease on the upper left corner. Grade: 3
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Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Fishing Pier (Florida)
Unused, heavily aging Plastichrome card P18744. Grade: 3