Showing 161–200 of 304 postcards

  • The Rose Garden, Bellingrath Gardens & Home, Mobile (Alabama, USA)

    Unused mid-90s card.  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700174

    Price: $0.50

    The Rose Garden, Bellingrath Gardens & Home, Mobile (Alabama, USA)
  • Azaleas, Bellingrath Gardens & Home, Mobile (Alabama, USA)

    Unused mid-90s card.  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700175

    Price: $0.50

    Azaleas, Bellingrath Gardens & Home, Mobile (Alabama, USA)
  • Dogwood and Wisteria (USA)

    Unused Plastichrome card P329589.  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700176

    Price: $0.50

    Dogwood and Wisteria (USA)
  • Veldheer’s Tulip Gardens (Holland, Michigan, USA)

    Unused Dexter Press card 32552-C, serrated edges.  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700177

    Price: $1.00

    Veldheer’s Tulip Gardens (Holland, Michigan, USA)
  • Royal Palms (Bermuda)

    Unused old card.  Grade: 2

    Code: 30700178

    Price: $3.00

    Royal Palms (Bermuda)
  • St. Georges, Oleanders (Bermuda)

    Unused Wm. Weiss & Co. card No. 171, slight album markings on reverse corners.  Grade: 3

    Code: 30700179

    Price: $4.00

    St. Georges, Oleanders (Bermuda)
  • 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

    Code: 30700180

    Price: $1.00

    Winding Trail through Redwoods (California)
  • 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

    Code: 30700181

    Price: $0.50

    Fall leaves in the redwoods (USA)
  • 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

    Code: 30700182

    Price: $0.50

    The Story of Spanish Moss (USA)
  • Netherlands

    Mailed from Netherlands with six stamps (but no postmark) and Priority label.  You can turn this card into a profit centre.  Grade: 4

    Code: 30700183

    Price: $0.50

    Netherlands
  • Durians (Malaysia)

    Two of these unused, 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″ Sepia Collection cards #SP-001 are available.  Grades: 1

    Code: 30700185

    Price: $2.00

    Durians (Malaysia)
  • 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

    Code: 30700186

    Price: $1.00

    Redwood Burls (USA)
  • Tulips

    Mailed from Netherlands in 2013 with stamp and postmark.  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700187

    Price: $1.00

    Tulips
  • 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

    Code: 30700188A

    Price: $12.00

    Provence, Lavender (set) – front cover (France)
  • Provence, Lavender (set) – back cover (France)

    See description for 30700188A.

    Code: 30700188B

    Price: $12.00

    Provence, Lavender (set) – back cover (France)
  • 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

    Code: 30700189

    Price: $0.50

    Coast Redwoods – Lady Bird Johnson Grove (California)
  • 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

    Code: 30700190

    Price: $0.50

    Coast Redwoods – Riverbank Lupine (California)
  • Cypress Gardens, Lake Eloise (Florida)

    The focus of course is on the cypress trees.  Unused Koppel Color Card 18011 (FG-64).  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700191

    Price: $1.00

    Cypress Gardens, Lake Eloise (Florida)
  • 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

    Code: 30700192

    Price: $2.00

    Indio, Date Harvest (California)
  • California the Golden State (California Poppy)

    Unused Colorscope card S-2076.  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700193

    Price: $2.00

    California the Golden State (California Poppy)
  • Giant Sequoia, Sierra Nevada Mountains (California)

    Unused Colorscope card S-4042.  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700194

    Price: $1.00

    Giant Sequoia, Sierra Nevada Mountains (California)
  • 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

    Code: 30700195

    Price: $7.00

    Tricholoma terreum (Maximum Card) (DPR Korea)
  • 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

     

    Code: 30700196

    Price: $5.00

    Dandelions open on Mt. Paektu (DPR Korea)
  • Dogwood in bloom (USA)

    Unused Dexter Press card DT-3921-B, aging.  Grade: 2

    Code: 30700197

    Price: $1.00

    Dogwood in bloom (USA)
  • 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

    Code: 30700198

    Price: $0.50

    Two bizarre giants (USA)
  • Aland, King Bolete (Maximum Card no. 44) (Finland)

    Unused Maximum Card issued on 2nd January 2003.  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700199

    Price: $9.00

    Aland, King Bolete (Maximum Card no. 44) (Finland)
  • Bougainvillea and Cactus in a California garden

    Not postally used, but with a long pencilled notation on the back.  Grade: 5

    Code: 30700200

    Price: $0.50

    Bougainvillea and Cactus in a California garden
  • Cypress Gardens, poinsettias in full bloom (Florida, USA)

    Unused Curteichcolor card 3DK-1540 (CK.19).  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700201

    Price: $0.50

    Cypress Gardens, poinsettias in full bloom (Florida, USA)
  • Rochester, Maplewood Park, a section of rose gardens (New York)

    Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 4A-H1729.  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700202

    Price: $0.50

    Rochester, Maplewood Park, a section of rose gardens (New York)
  • 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

    Code: 30700203

    Price: $1.00

    Legend of the Dogwood (Gatlinburg Court) (Tennessee, USA)
  • 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

    Code: 30700204

    Price: $1.00

    Poem of the Redwoods
  • 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

    Code: 30700205

    Price: $1.00

    The Redwoods (USA)
  • 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

    Code: 30700206

    Price: $1.00

    World’s Largest Rhododendron Garden (USA)
  • 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

    Code: 30700207

    Price: $30.00

    National Love Flora and Fauna Day 1996 (Indonesia) (set of 10) (Maximum Cards)
  • 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

    Code: 30700208

    Price: $5.00

    Gerbera hybrida (Maximum Card) (DPR Korea)
  • 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

     

    Code: 30700209

    Price: $15.00

    Gift flowers (set of five) (DPR Korea)
  • Catalpa ovata (DPR Korea)

    Unused card with similar-theme pre-printed postage.  Captioned in Korean and with the scientific name.  Grade: 1

    Code: 30700210

    Price: $4.00

    Catalpa ovata (DPR Korea)
  • 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

    Code: 30700211

    Price: $5.00

    Cactus (선인장) (DPR Korea)
  • 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

    Code: 30700212

    Price: $4.00

    Floriade 2012 World Horticultural Expo (DPR Korea)
  • Rose (장미) (DPR Korea)

    Unused card from 2012, whose pre-printed postage is round.  Short captions in Korean (장미) and English.   Grade: 1

    Code: 30700213

    Price: $4.00

    Rose (장미) (DPR Korea)