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Waldo, Cedar Springs Trout Farm (Wisconsin, USA)
Unused, heavily aged L.L. Cook card 24540. We got a real eyeful (and education) when we Googled this. Grade: 3
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Greetings from Woodruff, Wis., where fish bite … (USA)
Unused E.C. Kropp card 19518-W84. Grade: 1
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Rossport (ON), Home of the world famous Rossport Fish Derby (Canada)
According to one online source, “Started in 1937, this is the longest-running fishing derby in North America.” Unused Dexter Press card DT-85310-B, serrated edges and beginning to age. Grade: 1
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Bermuda Islands map
It’s an iconic postcard map but neither the postmark nor the writer told us what year the card was mailed. Stamp and partial postmark are there. Grade: 2
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The Best of Shkodra (folio, 20 photos) (Albania)
See our description for item 20501045. Same concept, photos that might be able to be used as postcards but everything is still sealed in the original wrap. Unused. Grade: 1
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Lake Ohrid, fishing at sunset (Macedonia)
For more than a few people, their only shot at Macedonia is a couple of hours on a side trip out from Albania and back, to a monastery at this scenic location. Little time for fishing, though. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Multiple views (Tristan da Cunha)
Views include fishing off the Hardies, Tristan Cottage with the 1961 volcano, milking a cow, and playing golf on “the world’s remotest golf course”. Grade: 1
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Dragnet Fishing (Sri Lanka)
Mailed in 1990, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2
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Kebbi State, Argungu Fishing Festival (Nigeria)
There’s absolutely no hiding who issued this unused card. Grade: 1
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Air Seychelles, Flying the Creole Spirit
Unused. Grade: 1
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Fishing Boats, Flying Fish, and Rum Shops (Barbados)
This 4-7/8″ x 6-3/4″ card is unused apart from a name inked into the message area. A barcode sticker was affixed at source. Grade: 3
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Soufriere Bay, Fishermen at Work (St. Lucia)
This 5-1/8″ x 7″ card is unused except for the name inked into the left edge of the message area. Grade: 3
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Gone Fishing (St. Lucia)
This 5-1/8″ x 7″ card is unused except for the name inked into the left edge of the message area. Grade: 3
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Cebu, multiple views (Philippines)
All five views on this unused 4-3/4″ x 7-1/4″ card are identified on the reverse, including the Chinese Taoist Temple, Fort San Pedro, and Osmena Circle in Cebu City. Grade: 1
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Vence – Les Gorges de la Cagne (France)
Vence, like every other commune in far southeastern France, has a long and rich history. Condensing Wikipedia, “Within the medieval walled village, the Peyra Gate was remodelled in 1810. The fountain was rebuilt in 1822 replacing an older one dating from 1578. Nearby is an oak, donated by François I and planted in 1538. The castle is today the Fondation Émile Hugues, a modern and contemporary art museum. The cathedral was built in the 4th century on the site of a Roman temple. The stone of the western façade dates from 239. Another, on the right, was engraved in December 220. Other stones in the external walls represent funerary dedications. A chapel in the cathedral has a mosaic by Marc Chagall, dated 1911. The rue des Portiques is a section of the old Roman road. The town has a small chapel, up above the Cité Historique Chapelle du Rosaire (1948, completed in 1951), decorated with stained glass and other fittings by Henri Matisse, who owned a home in the village towards the end of his life. Vence is famous for its spring water, which can be collected from numerous fountains in the town.” But you knew all this already. The card was written in 1921, with a message filling the reverse, but was not postally used. Is he fishing? Looks like it. Grade: 4
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Greetings from Colourful Nova Scotia (Canada)
Unused, mildly aging Dexter Press card 90558-B. Those five scenes are all identified in the reverse caption, including those fishing boats. Grade: 1
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Okinawa, Sunset of Itoman Fishing Port (Japan)
From a series of unused cards, captioned (usually) briefly in Chinese, then Japanese, then more of an often-colourful and enjoyable English. Like this one: “Itoman is a town of fishermen which hands down Okinawa as ‘Natives of the Sea’. We can suppose it here from the sun baked people.” Grade: 1
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Ta Keo Province, Fishing Village (Cambodia)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Kampong speu Province, fishing net (Cambodia)
Unused card, but noticeably stained on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Greetings from Rhode Island (USA)
Unused card with a few statistics in the caption. The fisherman’s down there in the lower right. Grade: 1
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Kaikoura (New Zealand)
Mailed in 1992, this card extols Kaikoura’s healthy fishing industry. The card has its stamp and fastPost label, and a faint postmark. A strip of aging along the right reverse edge. Grade: 2
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Shrimp and Oyster Industry, Biloxi (Mississippi, USA)
Unused. Aged appropriately. Grade: 1
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Catfish Days, Grand Forks (North Dakota, USA)
Mailed in 2020 with Global Forever round stamp, and postmark. This is the Great Northern Railroad Bridge, over the Red River, though the card’s caption focuses on catfish fishing. Grade: 1
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Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco (USA)
Unused H.S. Crocker card 5:SF-8, with perforated left edge. They want you to visit! Grade: 1
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San Francisco, Fisherman’s Wharf ML-8 (California)
Unused Modern Lithographers card ML-8 (to distinguish this one from the others), showing the Wharf several years ago. Grade: 1
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Fishing in the Snoqualmie (Washington, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P6229, with a scene in the pools below Snoqualmie Falls and Lodge (which, by the way, is now the Salish Lodge and Spa). Grade: 1
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Greetings from Tomahawk, Wisconsin (USA)
Greetings from Tomahawk, Wis. imprinted on the front of this unused, generic card whose caption reads “Fishing in a Likely Spot”. The only trouble is, he doesn’t seem to be fishing. Grade: 2
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Rehoboth, Fishing and Beaching (Delaware, USA)
“Fishing and Beaching”? Not sure we would want to be swimming in exactly the same place where people were casting lines with hooks. But to each their own. Unused Mike Roberts card B7415, serrated edges. Small mark in the stamp area. Grade: 2
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I Luv the Rio Grande Valley (Texas, USA)
An unused card for many categories with a caption as florid as the produce it describes. Grade: 1
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Freeport / Grand Bahama Island (Bahamas)
These map postcards often compel us to place a card in multiple theme categories, and this one is no exception. Unused, it’s more a map of Grand Bahama than just of Freeport but it’s also just the type of card we would like if someone mailed it to us. We went to Nassau once. For four hours. Grade: 1
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Aberdeen, Fishing Centre (Hong Kong)
Far less congested there now, so you can relive the past with this unused mid-20th-century unused Yat Sun Hong Kong postcard. Grade 1
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Aberdeen, Fishing Centre (Hong Kong)
Not to be confused with another card having the same caption … this is Yat Sun Printing No. 338. It’s from mid-20th century and is unused. Grade: 1
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Fishing Scaffolding along the Shore (Macau)
Unused, early 20th-century real-photo card. Even much of the shore is gone now, reclaimed for entertainment and shopping, Grade: 1
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Fishing Boat at Work (Macau)
Unused, very old real-photo card. Grade: 1
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Gifu, Views of Cormorant Fishing (Japan)
There’s a lot of story, culture, and history behind this unused old postcard. Worth Googling if you don’t already know. Grade: 1
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Catching Haggis in Scotland
This J. Arthur Dixon card was mailed in 1986 with two 17p stamps and postmark. And, no, haggis is not a fish. If by some chance you don’t know what it is, fasten your seat belt and Google it. Grade: 1
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The fishing round here
There’s your allusion to Loch Ness on this J. Arthur Dixon card PHU 25643. It was mailed in 1989 and has a 27p commemorative and blue airmail label, but no readable postmark. Grade: 4
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The Devil’s Hole (Bermuda)
A long caption, a large stamp, and a readable 1954 postmark on this card whose message might just be a bit politically or otherwise incorrect these days. Grade: 1
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Marsxlokk, Fishing Village (Malta)
On the front, a nice representation of bucolic Malta. On the reverse, stickers and an unpostmarked stamp. Grade: 4
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Bermuda Lobster
Unused card, explaining that this species of lobster can weigh up to 20 pounds. We will never have that chance. Grade: 1