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New York City, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Unused 5″ x 7″ card. Grade: 1
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Peace
Unused card issued by the United Nations Postal Administration. Grade: 1
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San Francisco’s Chinatown
Unused Dexter Press card 52892-B with a view of Grant Avenue, and a cable car, and a Taiwanese flag that’s probably not there right now–but we’ve not looked, lately. Grade: 1
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Denmark
Mailed in 2013 with three stamps and a green B Economique and address label affixed. Grade: 3
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Boston 3252 (Massachusetts, USA)
Unused card of MBTA car 3252 at Watertown, one of three in Boston 200 Bicentennial dress. The photo was, according to the caption, taken on 17th July 1975. Grade: 2
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Groeten uit Zeeland, Veere (Netherlands)
Mailed in 2013, two stamps and Amsterdam postmark. Grade: 1
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South Africa (3D)
Heavy, lenticular-printing 3D card but mailed from the United Arab Emirates (not South Africa!) in 2013 with two stamps and very faint postmark. Grade: 4
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Český Krumlov (Czech Republic)
On the back, this irregularly shaped card, in Czech, is captioned: South Bohemian Region. Český Krumlov is a UNESCO World Heritage site, though the printed card itself does not say so. Mailed in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and Prioritaire. Grade: 1
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Missouri – The Show Me State
Mailed in 2013 with mostly readable postmark and three different stamps. USPS barcoding on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Kyiv, Olympic National Sports Complex (Ukraine)
In case the scan is not clear enough, the top of this card was made in the shape of the top of the numbers–it’s cut that way. Nice contemporary issue from 2012, mailed in 2013, four stamps, one full postmark, one partial one, and bilingual par Avion label. Grade: 1
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16th Asian Games, Guangzhou 2010 (PR China) (series)
Please read this information together with all scans between this one and 20307542. That should explain almost everything. Then, if you have any question, ask us.
This is a series of 42 unused cards issued by China Post and showing various events and symbols associated with the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou in 2010. Some of these cards are about these specific games, and some are about earlier or related events. All cards are Grade: 1, and the price per card is US$3. The card you see in this scan was #1 in the series, though this specific card has been sold.
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16th Asian Games, Guangzhou 2010 (PR China) (series of 42 – cards #29-32)
For the full explanation of this series, see our entry 20307529 and subsequent. In this scan, one card (Card A) has the PRC flag. The price is for that card only, not the set. Unused card, Grade: 1
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USA
This is a beautiful, clear, high-quality card in great condition, and would easily be Grade 1 except that the round “Global Forever” stamp wasn’t cancelled. There is USPS barcoding at the bottom, but no cancellation = Grade: 4
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The Confederate Flags (USA)
All identified in the caption of this unused card. Grade: 1
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Utah (USA)
Made more special by having been mailed with five different stamps, of which two are commemoratives, in 2013. Faint postmark, some of which also appears on the front. Grade: 2
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The Diplomat Motel, St. Louis (Missouri, USA)
Mailed in 1963, with a 4-cent commemorative and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Ohio (USA)
Mailed in 2013, with round “Global Forever” stamp and blurry postmark. Grade: 1
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Latvia flag design
A stylised flag, and just for the record, the words “Nice place” at the bottom are part of the design. Mailed in 2013 with stamp and full Riga postmark. Grade: 1
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Alaska
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Alaska
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Suomi (Finland)
Mailed in 2013 with large stamp, Tampere postmark, and Priority label. Grade: 2
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The Mackinac Bridge (USA)
Unused, but with “speckles” on the front from having been stuck to another card earlier. Grade: 5
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Miami, Flamingos and Nests at Hialeah Park (Florida)
Curteich-Chicago linen card OB-H218 (D.C. 27), in fact the same picture with two slightly different captions on two cards from two print runs. One was mailed in what looks like 1945, with 1-cent stamp and faint postmark (Grade: 2, $2) and the other is highly aged, but unused (Grade: 3, $1).
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As a lover he bade farewell to his sweetheart
Embossed, German-made card (does ANYONE see the irony in this?) mailed in the USA in 1908, with stamp and Texas postmark. Grade: 2
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Kugler’s Chestnut St. Restaurant, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA)
Kugler’s was famous, and now gone. The unused card is evenly mellow with age and shows the “Cocktail Lounge and Victory Bar – Under the silken parade of the flags of the United Nations.” There’s an abrasion at the left front edge. Grade: 3
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New York City, Times Square
One of several reasons why we like cards like these is that there is so much to see in them, like the city itself. Unused Mike Roberts card C14707 showing the “Crossroads of the World”. Significant aging. Grade: 3
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Nevada, USA
Unused Smith-Southwestern card 7924 with eight different factoids on the back. Postcards can’t seem to agree whether Nevada is the Sagebrush State or the Silver State. Probably both. Grade: 1
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Folsom Rodeo (California)
We don’t have enough rodeo postcards to open a new category, but if we did, this would lead the way. Unused. Grade: 1
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Charleston, Civil War (South Carolina, USA)
Mailed in 2013 with a round Global Forever stamp, postmark, and some postal abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Titanic 1912-2012 (Canada)
An unusual entry among Titanic postcards, issued by Canada Post in 2012 with really a very large stamp of the vessel pre-printed on the reverse. Mailed in 2012 with postmark, and there is faintly visible orange postal barcoding on the front. Grade: 3
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Welcome Our Liberators (France)
The sands of time are beginning to overcome the sands of the Normandy landing beaches. Unused card. Grade: 1
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California the Golden State (California Symbols)
Unused Colorscope card S-2076. Grade: 1
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DPR Korea flag, and soldier
The text says: “People’s army is the nation’s strength!” See also the “North Korea” country category. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Iowa (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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DPR Korea
This alone should prompt us to open a new “Outer Space” theme category but for now we will let this set of eight cards (attached in fold-out accordion style) speak for itself. Our scan shows the front and back cover, each of which is one of the eight cards. Other views include scenes in launch facilities, and rockets in various stages of performance, as you can see on that back cover. Captioned entirely in Korean. Grade: 1
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Nevada
Not postally used, but with a message fully taking up all of the reverse. Grade: 4
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Greetings from Hoover Dam (FS692) (USA)
Unused old card, some sort of shading on part of the reverse. Grade: 3
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Charlestown, The Fort at No. 4 (New Hampshire, USA)
Unused, unattributed card of this scene overlooking the Connecticut River. Grade: 1
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Grand Island, Hello from Fantasy Island (New York)
Mailed in 1963, this card has a 5-cent “Alliance for Progress” commemorative stamp, Buffalo postmark, and is starting to age. Grade: 2
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Portland, Battleship Oregon Memorial (Oregon, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 9C-K1811. Small smudge in stamp area. Grade: 2