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The Rose Garden, Bellingrath Gardens & Home, Mobile (Alabama, USA)
Unused mid-90s card. Grade: 1
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Azaleas, Bellingrath Gardens & Home, Mobile (Alabama, USA)
Unused mid-90s card. Grade: 1
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Dogwood and Wisteria (USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P329589. Grade: 1
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Veldheer’s Tulip Gardens (Holland, Michigan, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 32552-C, serrated edges. Grade: 1
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Royal Palms (Bermuda)
Unused old card. Grade: 2
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St. Georges, Oleanders (Bermuda)
Unused Wm. Weiss & Co. card No. 171, slight album markings on reverse corners. Grade: 3
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Winding Trail through Redwoods (California)
This unused Mike Roberts “California Color Card” C446 has some original ink smudge (it came from the print run) on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Fall leaves in the redwoods (USA)
To be honest, the card doesn’t look very autumnal to us, but we weren’t there when they took the photo. We do learn from the caption that a 200′ redwood holds 4,700 gallons of water. Unused Mike Roberts card C448. Grade: 1
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The Story of Spanish Moss (USA)
What is it about Spanish Moss that makes every postcard want to write a poem about it? Unused card, Grade: 2
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Netherlands
Mailed from Netherlands with six stamps (but no postmark) and Priority label. You can turn this card into a profit centre. Grade: 4
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Durians (Malaysia)
Two of these unused, 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″ Sepia Collection cards #SP-001 are available. Grades: 1
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Redwood Burls (USA)
Unused card, whose explanation puzzles us: “Redwood Burls, thought by most authorities to be masses of dormant burds …” Maybe you just need to be a botanist to understand. Grade: 1
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Tulips
Mailed from Netherlands in 2013 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Provence, Lavender (set) – front cover (France)
Imagine, a set of 30 unused postcards of lavender in France, published and sold for domestic use in China. This scan shows the front of the cardboard cover; scan 30700188B shows the back cover, and therefore thumbnails of all the individual cards. Card-for-card, great value. We will advise exact postage. Grade: 1
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Provence, Lavender (set) – back cover (France)
See description for 30700188A.
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Coast Redwoods – Lady Bird Johnson Grove (California)
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card with perforated left edge (so it came from a set) and some corner bumping. Grade: 2
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Coast Redwoods – Riverbank Lupine (California)
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ card with perforated left edge (so it came from a set) and some corner bumping. Grade: 2
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Cypress Gardens, Lake Eloise (Florida)
The focus of course is on the cypress trees. Unused Koppel Color Card 18011 (FG-64). Grade: 1
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Indio, Date Harvest (California)
There was a time–we’re not certain about now–when little stalls selling date shakes and date malts lined the roadway in this area. Wonder if that’s still the case. Those, and frozen chocolate-covered bananas. Yum. Mailed in 1967 with a 4-cent stamp, and full Palm Desert postmark. Grade: 1
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California the Golden State (California Poppy)
Unused Colorscope card S-2076. Grade: 1
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Giant Sequoia, Sierra Nevada Mountains (California)
Unused Colorscope card S-4042. Grade: 1
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Tricholoma terreum (Maximum Card) (DPR Korea)
Tricholoma terreum, commonly known as the grey knight or dirty tricholoma, is a grey-capped edible mushroom. This unused Maximum Card from 2008 is captioned in Korean and Latin (the scientific name) on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Dandelions open on Mt. Paektu (DPR Korea)
For the most part, if you want dandelion postcards, you need to design and make them yourself. Google tells us this. But you’re in luck: this is ready and waiting for you. Unused, from 2000, with colourful pre-printed postage of the wintry mountain range under a glowing orange sky. Grade: 1
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Dogwood in bloom (USA)
Unused Dexter Press card DT-3921-B, aging. Grade: 2
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Two bizarre giants (USA)
Unused H.S. Crocker card HSC-205 showing the “two bizarre giants”: saguaro, and ocotillo (which by the way is a deciduous shrub, and not a cactus). Grade: 1
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Aland, King Bolete (Maximum Card no. 44) (Finland)
Unused Maximum Card issued on 2nd January 2003. Grade: 1
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Bougainvillea and Cactus in a California garden
Not postally used, but with a long pencilled notation on the back. Grade: 5
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Cypress Gardens, poinsettias in full bloom (Florida, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 3DK-1540 (CK.19). Grade: 1
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Rochester, Maplewood Park, a section of rose gardens (New York)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 4A-H1729. Grade: 1
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Legend of the Dogwood (Gatlinburg Court) (Tennessee, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 0C-H115. It was appropriated by a motel called Dogwood Court, who stamped their contact information on the back where a caption would otherwise have been. Grade: 1
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Poem of the Redwoods
Unused Mike Roberts card C4221 with a poem written by Joseph B. Strauss, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge. (It wasn’t enough for him to do that?) Grade: 1
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The Redwoods (USA)
This time, an unused H.S. Crocker card RW-5-9, with the Strauss poem written before mindless vandals entered the forest. Grade: 1
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World’s Largest Rhododendron Garden (USA)
And where might this be? Roan Mountain, North Carolina/Tennessee (USA), with Mt. Mitchell, “the highest peak in Eastern America,” in the distance. Unused card that doesn’t do Mt. Mitchell any special favours. Grade: 2
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National Love Flora and Fauna Day 1996 (Indonesia) (set of 10) (Maximum Cards)
This is a set of ten unused Maximum Cards. The scan shows four of those. Each of the ten cards identifies its respective flora or fauna by Indonesian name, scientific name, and area of Indonesia where it can be found. If you want to know what they all are, please ask and we’ll e-mail the names to you. Grade: 1
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Gerbera hybrida (Maximum Card) (DPR Korea)
Basically, a daisy. Wikipedia says, in substance: Gerbera is widely used as a decorative garden plant or as cut flowers. The domesticated cultivars are mostly a result of a cross between Gerbera jamesonii and another South African species Gerbera viridifolia. The cross is known as Gerbera hybrida. The caption is only in Korean, and translates as “fire mums”. Pyongyang attribution. Grade: 1
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Gift flowers (set of five) (DPR Korea)
This is a set of five unused, domestic cards with pre-printed postage. Four appear in the scan. They are captioned in Korean only, as for example 선물꽃수국 (hydrangea). Grades: 1
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Catalpa ovata (DPR Korea)
Unused card with similar-theme pre-printed postage. Captioned in Korean and with the scientific name. Grade: 1
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Cactus (선인장) (DPR Korea)
Unused 2011 card, Korean and English captions, and pre-printed large postage of cactus, a cactus flower, and a butterfly. Grade: 1
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Floriade 2012 World Horticultural Expo (DPR Korea)
There is a three-character Korean caption on the back that we couldn’t make out, plus what’s written on the front. The flower on the front seems not to be identified but it looks a lot like the hollyhocks we knew when we were young. The pre-printed postage is easier: those are tulips. Grade: 1
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Rose (장미) (DPR Korea)
Unused card from 2012, whose pre-printed postage is round. Short captions in Korean (장미) and English. Grade: 1