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Painted Trillium (USA)
From this unused card, we now know the Latin name: Trillium undulatum. Grade: 1

Code: 30700132
Price: $1.00
Yellow Lady’s-Slipper
Unused card of Cypripedium Calceolus pubescens. Grade: 1

Code: 30700133
Price: $1.00
Fire Pink (USA)
Silene virginica on an unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30700134
Price: $1.00
Peach blossoms
Unused, undistinguished linen card. Grade: 1

Code: 30700135
Price: $0.50
Rhodendron in Full Bloom in the Heart of the Mountains
Unused Tichnor Quality Views linen card 68099 (and 233), distributed in Tennessee, so we’re guessing these are the Smokies. That’s a very solid guess. Grade: 3

Code: 30700136
Price: $0.50
Oranges and Blossoms
Unused and unnumbered Jumbo Card Co. linen card. Grade: 1

Code: 30700137
Price: $0.50
Legend of the Dogwood (USA)
Of many similar cards, this one was mailed in 1959; the postmark is there, but the stamp is gone. Grade: 4

Code: 30700138
Price: $0.50
The Legend of the Dogwood 82574
Three unused linen cards are available. The number refers to Tichnor Quality Views index number. Grades: 1

Code: 30700139
Price: $1.00
The Legend of the Dogwood N-660
Unused and heavily handled Asheville Post Card Co. specimen with that reference number, along with E-6276. Grade: 3

Code: 30700140
Price: $0.50
The Legend of the Dogwood 148
Mailed in 1948, this linen card has no stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 30700141
Price: $0.50
The Legend of the Dogwood, Virginia’s State Flower
Vintage linen card, unused. Grade: 3

Code: 30700142
Price: $2.00
Dogwood (USA)
Unused Dexter Press card DT-67105-B. Grade: 1

Code: 30700143
Price: $0.50
Apple blossoms (Canada)
Heavily aged, unused old card on which someone pencilled in that it came from Nova Scotia. Grade: 4

Code: 30700144
Price: $0.50
Myosotis alpestris
To save you the trouble, we went to Google and now know the common name for this is the Alpine Forget-me-not, Alaska’s state flower. But the card, mailed in 1909, is European and was mailed to Austria. Now it has some of the postmark and none of the stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 30700145
Price: $1.00
Aster alpinus
We took Latin in school so we could tell you the common name of this flower is the Alpine Aster. Surprise! European card, mailed to Austria, without postmark or stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 30700146
Price: $0.50
Mountain Columbines
Unused Dexter Press card 72985 (and 3766), rounded corners. Grade: 2

Code: 30700147
Price: $1.00
Date Gardens on the Desert (USA)
Unused linen C.T. Art-Colortone card 3B-H186 (and 637). Grade: 1

Code: 30700148
Price: $1.00
Legend of the Myrtle Tree
Unused Plastichrome card P62594, aging heavily. Grade: 4

Code: 30700149
Price: $1.00
Traditional rice harvest, Bali (Indonesia)
Unused 4-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ card. Grade: 1

Code: 30700150
Price: $4.00
Chiang Rai, opium field (Thailand)
Two unused cards from 2012 are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30700151
Price: $4.00
Saguaro cactus in winter (Arizona, USA)
Mailed in 2012 with three commemorative stamps, of which one is severely abraded. There is a green official “chop” mark indicating the card was bought in Saguaro National Park. Grade: 3

Code: 30700152
Price: $1.00
Cholla cactus (Arizona, USA)
Mailed in 2012 with three different stamps. Abrasion on front bottom left. Grade: 3

Code: 30700154
Price: $0.50
A Doleib Tree on the Dinder (Sudan)
Sudan Times card No. B 13. Grade: 4

Code: 30700155
Price: $8.00
Red Mangrove
This card PL2 comes from the World Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong (WWF), with a 1990 date written on the back. It wasn’t postally used, and has a note of thanks on the reverse. We appreciate small ironies, since nothing in the photo is red. Grade: 4

Code: 30700156T
Price: $1.00
Bluhende Heide (Flowering Heather)
This is a very old card, unused. Grade: 3

Code: 30700157
Price: $1.00
Trees of Roses (Portland, Oregon, USA)
Unused. Grade: 2

Code: 30700159
Price: $0.50
Yellowstone Park, Aster Machaeranthera bigelovii (USA)
Refer to card 10151043 (Wyoming) for full description of the series. This card has reference numbers 14020 (front) and 91215 (reverse). Grade: 2

Code: 30700160
Price: $2.00
Yellowstone Park, Giant Daisies, Wyethia helianthoides (USA)
Refer to card 10151043 (Wyoming) for full description of the series. This card has reference numbers 17118 (front) and 88286 (reverse). Grade: 2

Code: 30700161
Price: $2.00
Duinen van Goeree, Duinviool (violets) (Netherlands)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and full postmark. Ink transfer and an abrasion on upper front. Grade: 4

Code: 30700162
Price: $1.00
Matanuska Cabbage (Alaska)
Direct from the Matanuska Valley, a 40-pound cabbage and one unused postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 30700163
Price: $1.00
Pine-apple hot-house – St. Michael’s (Azores)
Unused, unattributed, and heavily aged B&W card. Grade: 3

Code: 30700164
Price: $3.00
Nepenthes of Sabah: Nepenthes kinabaluensis (Malaysia)
Don’t confuse this unused 5″ x 7″ card with 30700166. They’re not the same, though both show variants of the carnivorous pitcher plants found on Mount Kinabalu in Sabah. Very nice, high-quality card. Grade: 1

Code: 30700165
Price: $3.00
Nepenthes of Sabah: Nepenthes villosa (Malaysia)
Don’t confuse this unused 5″ x 7″ card with 30700165. They’re not the same, though both show variants of the carnivorous pitcher plants found on Mount Kinabalu in Sabah. Very nice, high-quality card. Grade: 1

Code: 30700166
Price: $3.00
Joshua Tree, Lancaster (California)
Unused card, aging. Grade: 2

Code: 30700167
Price: $1.00
Roses
Made in, and mailed from, Germany in 2012 with a coloured postage meter label and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30700168
Price: $1.00
Nymphaea (Finland)
Nymphaea is the genus of water lilies, of which there are about 50 species, and school is now closed for the day. This card was mailed in 2012 with (uncancelled) stamp and Priority label. The card is extensively captioned, but all in Finnish. Only because there’s no postmark, Grade: 4

Code: 30700169
Price: $1.00
Saguaro cactus (Arizona)
Unused Smith-Southwestern card 0552. Grade: 1

Code: 30700170
Price: $1.00
Mexican gold poppies (Arizona, USA)
This unused Smith-Southwestern card 70013 (4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″) has an embossed effect and chooses to highlight the “abundance of wildflowers”. Grade: 1

Code: 30700171
Price: $2.00
Ocotillo in bloom on the desert (USA)
Deliberately or not, the orange tint on this unused card lends an appropriate atmosphere. Grade: 3

Code: 30700172
Price: $1.00
Yucca in Califorina (sic) (USA)
Very, very heavily aged old card. It does tell us that another name for Yucca is “Spanish Dagger” and that it has a panicle of waxen bells. It goes on to say (quite a chatty caption) that the yucca plant was named “God’s Candle” by early settlers. And more. But you have better things to do. Grade: 4

Code: 30700173
Price: $1.00

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