Fountains – Page 4 – Global Postcard Sales

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Berlin, Rolandbrunnen
Unused, old B&W card #64. Grade: 1

Code: 33500133
Price: $1.00
Los Angeles, Griffith Park, Wm. Mulholland Memorial Fountain
If you collect fountain postcards, there’s no doubt this one qualifies. Unused Plastichrome card P10447. Grade: 1

Code: 33500135
Price: $0.50
Longwood Gardens, Fountains at night (Kennett Square and Wilmington, USA)
The funny thing is, this atmospheric, unused old card’s caption on the reverse locates these Gardens near Kennett Square in Pennsylvania, while the caption on the front designates Wilmington. So — with apologies — we go with Wilmington, but were curious. So as we often do, we Googled. The result? Officially, the address (and actual location) are Kennett Square, but the person most responsible for the Gardens’ development, Pierre S. du Pont, is probably more well-known for his association with Delaware. Who knows what the card’s designers were thinking? Too late to ask them. Grade: 1

Code: 33500136
Price: $6.00
Mission San Juan Capistrano (California)
Linen card with serrated edges, mailed in 1961 with abraded stamp, and postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 33500137
Price: $1.00
White House (Washington, DC)
Older B.S. Reynolds card 38684, unused. Grade: 3

Code: 33500138
Price: $2.00
New York City, Greetings from Rockefeller Center
Unused ENCO postcard NY612, showing Plaza Gardens and Prometheus Fountain. Grade: 1

Code: 33500139
Price: $1.00
Cincinnati, Fountain Square at Night (Ohio, USA)
The Tyler-Davidson Fountain on an unmailed Plastichrome card P8658 with “1960s” inked above the address area. Grade: 3

Code: 33500140
Price: $0.50
Philadelphia, Fountain on Parkway showing Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul and City Hall (USA)
It’s the Swan Memorial Fountain, on this unused but aging linen Curteich-Chicago card 3A-H129 (#115). The caption on the reverse explains the fountain in vivid and lengthy detail. Grade: 2

Code: 33500141
Price: $2.00
Providence, Atheneum. Private Library and Drinking Fountain (Rhode Island, USA)
This card is proof that there were postcard clubs in 1912, when it was mailed. Stamp and postmark are there. We very much hope that Louisa enjoyed a long and productive exchange with Lynn. It’s a very nice old card. Grade: 1

Code: 33500142
Price: $5.00
Elbasani Castle (cen. II-III AD), day view (Albania)
Unused Arba card 893. Grade: 1

Code: 33500143
Price: $4.00
Tirana, night view with fountains (Albania)
Unused Aeditions card 456. Grade: 1

Code: 33500144
Price: $3.00
Detroit, Belle Isle Park (Michigan, USA)
The park is on an island in the Detroit River, between the USA and Canada. The card is unused Plastichrome P9727, and this is the “Fountain of Wounded Gazelle”. Grade: 1

Code: 33500147
Price: $1.00
Accra, Views from Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s Mausoleum and Memorial Park (Ghana)
Unused card, older and beginning to show its age. Grade: 2

Code: 33500148
Price: $3.00
Marrakech, Different aspects (Morocco)
Unused Komaroc card No. 45, good on the front, aging but still Grade: 1-

Code: 33500149
Price: $3.00
Sault Ste. Marie, Ore Boat and Fountain in Lower Park (Michigan, USA)
“The ‘Cadillac’ starting its trip down the St. Mary’s River toward Lake Huron”. Unused, Plastichrome card P9601. Grade: 1

Code: 33500150
Price: $1.00
Yakima, Yakima Mall (Washington, USA)
The Mall closed in 2003. Seems like Valley Mall was too much competition. Unused Smith Western card CT-937, serrated edges and with some aging. Grade: 2

Code: 33500151
Price: $4.00
Vence – Post et Vielle Fontaine (France)
Among Vence postcards, an imposing sight, mailed in 1905 (we believe), aged appropriately, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 33500152
Price: $12.00
Fes, Nejjarine Fountain (Morocco)
Unused, somewhat aging card. Grade: 1

Code: 33500153
Price: $3.00
Greater Pittsburgh International Airport main entrance and fountain (USA)
Unused card dated 1986, though the cars in the photo do look a bit older than that. Grade: 1

Code: 33500154
Price: $1.00
We (heart) Macau
Unused card still in its original cellowrap. And a bit unusual, for saying “We” instead of “I”. We want to make it clear that the “Macau” sticker on the upper right is part of the wrapper, not a stamp, and not on the postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 33500155
Price: $4.00
Vlorë, View of Uji i Ftohte (Albania)
Compare the view on this unused card from 1985, with now. Don’t think it was that long ago? Have a look. Aging but otherwise unmarked. Grade: 2

Code: 33500156
Price: $8.00
Rebecca Fountain, Bogota (Colombia)
Along with the San Diego Internacional (sic) Center, and the Tequendama Insurance Company Building. Unused but aging Fotorama card 150. Grade: 2

Code: 33500157
Price: $3.00
Bogota, Quinta de Bolivar (Colombia)
Unused, aging Movifoto card 200-1. Grade: 1

Code: 33500158
Price: $3.00
Monument commemorating centennial legislative council (Paramaribo, Suriname)
Unused, aging Prolasco card SF 5, serrated edges. Captioned in Dutch and English. Grade: 2

Code: 33500159
Price: $4.00
Ganymede with Eagle, fountain fragment, Sofia (Bulgaria)
Unused card with five sites described in the bilingual English/Bulgarian captions. Grade: 1

Code: 33500160
Price: $2.00
Yenidje-Vardar – La Fontaine d’Alexandre le Grand (Greece)
Not postally used, but heavily aged and also heavily handled over many years. Grade: 4

Code: 33500161
Price: $2.00
Corning Fountain, Hartford (Connecticut, USA)
Once in awhile (try and stop us) we’ll tell you about what’s in the picture. In this case, Hartford’s Bushnell Park has its Corning Fountain: “… installed in the park in 1899 by John J. Corning as a tribute to his father, John B. Corning (note: no relation to the Corning Glass company). John B. … owned a dry goods store and auction house on Main Street and, like his father and grandfather, was a church deacon. John J. was a successful broker in New York who retained his love for his hometown of Hartford. The fountain’s location was chosen as part of a grand entranceway to the park and the State Capitol grounds for visitors arriving to Hartford via the train station. The 30-foot-tall fountain is made of marble and stone and is topped with the figure of a stag (or “hart,” for Hartford) and four native maidens surrounded by corn stalks, representing Hartford’s agricultural history.” We thank the Bushnell Park Foundation for that, and now tell you this old card (early 1900s) is unused. Grade: 1

Code: 33500162
Price: $3.00
Auditorium Plaza Park, Kansas City (Missouri, USA)
Unmailed Dexter Press 57844-B, onto which Anna Lee attached her autograph on 15th December, 1962. Grade: 3

Code: 33500163
Price: $1.00
Mexico City, Diana Cazadora

Commonly known as La Diana Cazadora (Diana the Hunter), this 1942 bronze nude sculpture atop a fountain is actually meant to represent the Archer of the North Star. La Diana stands at the center of a major traffic intersection so is hard to approach. The League of Decency under the Ávila Camacho administration had the sculptor add a loincloth to the buxom figure, which the artist cleverly attached with just two pins in hope of easy removal in more enlightened times; it was removed in 1966. There’s your back story for this unused Editorial Mexico postcard 1095, with a couple of small bumps on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 33500164
Price: $3.00
Copenhagen, Tivoli Concert Hall at night (Denmark)
Unmailed card dated 1971 with a short message written across the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 33500165
Price: $2.00
Bucharest Fountains (Romania)
The unused card doesn’t say so, but we think this represents the Bucharest Fountains. If so, we can say that the artesian fountains of Unirii Square, built during the communist period, were restored and Bucharest can now boast the first smart fountains in Europe, designed 100% on a computer, with color, music, and 3D projections on the water. Bucharest holds the Guinness Record for the longest choreographed fountain system in the world: four “water screens” facing the four cardinal points were integrated into the central fountain and are designed to create a huge multimedia platform for videos and laser projections. Grade: 1

Code: 33500166
Price: $4.00
Bern-Zytglockenturm (Switzerland)
This old clock tower’s name has as many different spellings as it does restorations (Wikipedia:) “The Zytglogge (lit. ‘time bell’) is a landmark medieval tower, built in the early 13th century. It has served as guard tower, prison, clock tower, centre of urban life and civic memorial. Despite the many redecorations and renovations it has undergone in its 800 years of existence, the Zytglogge is one of Bern’s most recognisable symbols and the oldest monument of the city, and with its 15th-century astronomical clock it is within a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site.” But of course in this category you’re also seeing the Zahringer Fountain. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 33500167
Price: $3.00
Berne, Marksman-Fountain and clock-tower (Switzerland)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 33500168
Price: $3.00
Johannesburg, multiple views (South Africa)
If you could only have one middle-aged postcard from South Africa, this could be it. Mailed in 1974, with two different stamps and clear postmark, the scenes including Oppenheimer Fountain are captioned in English and Afrikaans. Purple airmail chop on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 33500169
Price: $5.00
National Theatre & Water Fountain (Singapore)
Mailed from Singapore many years ago, with stamp, and bilingual airmail sticker that obscures the postmark. There are multiple thumbtack holes at the top centre. Grade: 5

Code: 33500170T
Price: $1.00
Sandakan City with Water Fountain (Sabah, Malaysia)
Mailed from Brunei (not Malaysia) in 1974, with Brunei stamp and postmark. Sandakan’s not far from Brunei, but they are not the same country. Grade: 3

Code: 33500171T
Price: $5.00

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