Government Buildings/State Capitols – Page 10

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Regards from Kosova, Governmental building (Prishtina)
The views include (as captioned) Peja’s City Center; Prizren’s old town; and Prishtina’s Skenderbeg statue and Governmental building. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31600387
Price: $11.00
Providence, Rhode Island (USA) – multiple views
We’re thinking if you live in, or come from, Providence, you might want this. Not postally used, it has a message totally covering the reverse, from very long ago. The scenes are all identified, and may be too small to make out in the scan, so we will identify them for you: City Hall and Soldiers Monument; State Capitol; New Armory; Brown University; Central Fire Station; New Post Office; State Normal School; St. Francis Xaviers Convent; Westminster St.; Roger Williams Park; and St. Peter’s and Paul’s Cathedral. That’s a lot for one postcard. Grade: 4

Code: 31600388
Price: $4.00
Historic Adelaide (South Australia)
Views are identified in the caption, and include the Adelaide Railway Station, Art Gallery, Adelaide Arcade, St. Peters Cathedral, Palm House – Botanic Gardens, and Old Parliament House. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 31600389
Price: $2.00
State Capitol, Dover (Delaware)
While we don’t have many Delaware postcards now, and even though this unused old card is missing two corners, it is undeniably authentic and shows what must have been one of the smaller state capitol buildings. Grade: 4

Code: 31600390
Price: $4.00
Democratic Government residence, Berat (Albania)
This 1981 card, with an (unposted) 1988 New Year’s greeting, is replete with symbolism, from the caption straight through to the humorous message (in Albanian). Somehow we were pleased to see that humour poke through. Grade: 4

Code: 31600391
Price: $6.00
Vijecnica (City Hall), Sarajevo (Bosnia)
Unused 4-7/8″ x 6-3/4″ card. Grade: 1

Code: 31600392
Price: $2.00
New Castle, Court House and Market Building (Delaware, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P63793. Grade: 1

Code: 31600394
Price: $2.00
Greetings from Alabama
Showing the State Capitol in Montgomery, and Bellingrath Gardens near Mobile, this Dexter Press card 31547-B is unused but with some red spotting on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 31600395
Price: $3.00
State Capitol, South Side, Hartford (Connecticut, USA)
Mailed from Hartford in 1916, with stamp and clear postmark. Diagonal crease at lower left. The writer said “I found your address on a piece of shang in Gardiner, Mo., ” and we would love to know what that meant, but guess it’s too late. Grade: 3

Code: 31600396
Price: $3.00
Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge
Mailed in 2019, with stamp and two extra stickers. Obscured postmark over the stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 31600397
Price: $1.00
Liberty Square, Town Hall, Archdiocese Cathedral (Minsk, Belarus)
Mailed from Minsk in 2020, with a large “M” stamp and postmark. The card has a sizable horizontal strip attached to the back, deliberately covering some printed text, and while it looks as if this strip was on the card when it was first sold, we can’t be certain. That’s the only reason the grade is so low. Grade: 4

Code: 31600398
Price: $1.00
Greetings from Mississippi – State Capitol, Jackson
Unused Tichnor Quality Views card 72662, linen, slightly aged (appropriately) and classic Large Letter. The caption tells us Mississippi’s population in 1940 (2,183,796) and yes, that *will* be on the test. Or not. Grade: 1

Code: 31600399
Price: $3.00
Old Warren County Courthouse, National Military Park, Vicksburg (Mississippi, USA)
Unused old postcard of a building completed in 1861. Grade: 1

Code: 31600400
Price: $2.00
Leal Senado Building (Macau)
We know the Portuguese heritage of Macau is almost imperceptibly disappearing because, once upon a time, this card would have had trilingual captioning. Now, just Chinese and English, but enough to explain the major significance of this 1784 structure in a UNESCO World Heritage location. Mailed in 2019, with stamp and full postmark, a very nice Macau postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 31600401
Price: $5.00
Maximum Cards of Taiwan Relics Postage Stamps (Issue of 2020) (set of 4) (Taiwan)
First, despite what’s written on the cardboard cover for this set, these are not maximum cards. They have no stamps and no postmarks. But they are unused, and show Gongziliao Fort, the Railway Division of Taiwan Governor General’s Bureau of Transportation, Dalongdong Baoan Temple, and Tainan District Court Building. Chunghwa Post is strange this way. We once went into one of its philatelic branches and saw a similar set of “maximum” cards without stamps. When we pointed this out to the clerk, she said — in effect — oh yes, that’s how we do it, and took out some stamps and a postmark chop so she could do it on the spot. (But not all Taiwanese maximum cards are managed this way.) Grade: 1

Code: 31600402
Price: $9.00
Munich – 1972 Olympics, St. Mary’s Square, City Hall, Cathedral (Germany)
Mailed from Munich in 1972 with stamp and clear postmark. An excellent postcard representative of this troubled Olympics. Grade: 1

Code: 31600403
Price: $3.00
Legislature Building, Dover (Delaware, USA)
If you collect Delaware postcards, this one is worth every nickel. Mailed in 1939 with its 1-cent stamp and clear Dover postmark, the message area contains only a stamp-like sticker for Delaware … showing the Legislature Building. Normally we would downgrade a card for having an extra sticker, but not this time. Grade: 1

Code: 31600405
Price: $6.00
Columbia, Airplane View of Capitol and Business Section Looking Up Main Street (South Carolina, USA)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31600406
Price: $3.00
State House, Dover (Delaware, USA)
Unmailed, embossed, and very old (a pencilled notation dated May 1910 is on the back), this card makes the building look like some sort of fantasy home. Maybe it was. Full disclosure: the right bottom reverse edge looks as if a small bit has been trimmed away, but we’re not certain if that happened at time of printing, or later. Our grading takes the most pessimistic view: Grade: 4

Code: 31600407
Price: $5.00
Postcards from Romania by Eugen Mihai (set of 10)
The ten glossy, unused cards in this set produced by Romanian military photographer Eugen Mihai are all shown on its paper cover. Each postcard has a complete and informative bilingual (English/Romanian) caption and represents one or another of a variety of scenes around the country — including a fortress, IAR 99 Standard military jet trainers, TR-85 M1 battle tank, Bucharest’s Palace of Parliament, Castelui Peles (Sinaia), the training ship “Mircea”, night view from Bucharest’s North Railway Station, Horezu Monastery, The Gate of the Kiss, and Hunyadi Castle. This great set came to us via our friend Tatiana, and — given the special circumstances of the cards’ production — if you read this and want to order directly from Mr. Mihai, we’ll tell you how to do that. Or, of course, this set from us. Grade: 1

Code: 31600408
Price: $12.00
Vicksburg, Mississippi, multiple views (USA)
Unused Jenkins Enterprises card MS-345 showing the courthouse, museum, and Twin Bridges over the Mississippi River. Grade: 1

Code: 31600409
Price: $1.00
Courthouse of 1770, Williamsburg (Virginia, USA)
Mailed in 1957 from Williamsburg, with stamp and postmark, the Courthouse itself served until 1932 and has plenty of history attached to it. Grade: 1

Code: 31600410
Price: $1.00
Legislative Hall (Dover, Delaware, USA)
Unused later card of a building dating from 1933. Grade: 1

Code: 31600411
Price: $4.00
Dover, Capital Complex (Delaware, USA)
Unused. But Delaware’s official website — or one of them — calls this the “Capitol Complex” and from what we leaned, that sounds better to us. Grade: 1

Code: 31600412
Price: $5.00
Capitol at Night (Washington, DC)
The caption on this unused, aging older H.S. Crocker postcard S-107 calls this an “unusual view”. We’re not certain what’s so unusual about it, but here’s the card for you if you agree with them and not us. Grade: 1

Code: 31600413
Price: $2.00
Dover, Capitol (Delaware, USA)
A jewel in the crown of old Delaware postcards, itself dated 1906 (from E.C. Kropp) but mailed in 1939 with stamp and clear Dover postmark. As a bonus, in the message area, it has what looks like a stamp also celebrating the State Capitol, but it’s not a U.S. official stamp, but part of some kind of commemorative set. Exceptionally, we will not downgrade the card because of that. Grade: 1

Code: 31600414
Price: $12.00
United States Supreme Court (Washington, DC)
Unused, aging, Plastichrome card P-61916 (W-106). Grade: 2

Code: 31600415
Price: $1.00
Harrisburg, State Capitol Park Showing New Building Group (Pennsylvania, USA)
Unused linen Curteich-Chicago card 4A-H1354 (56), aging appropriately and a fine example of an unmailed card for your “state capitol” collection. Grade: 1

Code: 31600416
Price: $4.00
Boston Common and State House (Massachusetts, USA)
In August of 1941, Sumiko wrote to Tatsuo (in English), and addressed the card but there’s no evidence it was postally used. Little did they know what was to come. Tape remnants appear twice on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 31600417
Price: $4.00
United States Capitol (Washington, DC)
Unused, aging old card whose caption tells us what’s “most interesting”. That’s for us to decide, but from personal experience we think we can remember a spot where you talk to the floor and people across the hall can hear you clearly. Grade: 1

Code: 31600418
Price: $1.00
Montreal, City Hall (Canada)
An old, unused card with left perforated edge. The card is stained and in poor condition, but undeniably authentic. Grade: 5

Code: 31600419
Price: $2.00
Presidential Office Building, Taipei (Taiwan)
This card measures 7-3/8″ x 4-1/8″ and was mailed from Germany (not Taiwan!) with some minor postal bumping along the way. The German stamp and postmark are there. Grade: 3

Code: 31600420
Price: $2.00
Potsdam, Lustgarten mit Stadtschloss (Germany)
Old, unused, and sepia … with left perforated edge, so it had been part of a set, long ago. Grade: 1

Code: 31600421
Price: $3.00
London, Houses of Parliament Looking to Westminster Bridge
We do sometimes wonder why so many purely European postcards were mailed from the U.S. in the early 20th century. Here’s another: a fine card, nicely captioned, and mailed from Maine in 1910. The stamp and postmark and long, interesting message are all there. Maybe at that time there was nothing of note in Maine? Grade: 3

Code: 31600422
Price: $3.00
Paris, Palais du Luxembourg
Old, and undivided back, with remnants of 1904 postmarks … but the stamp is long gone and the card can really only be a space filler. Grade: 5

Code: 31600423
Price: $1.00
London, Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament
As the postmark clearly shows, this card had been mailed in Iowa (USA) in 1910. The stamp of course is long gone, but there’s little to recommend the card apart from it being authentically old. Grade: 4-

Code: 31600424
Price: $1.00
Grüße aus Schermbeck (Germany)
If you were looking for a typical German postcard outside of Berlin or Frankfurt, you could hardly do better than this multiple view, mailed in 2021 with stamp, postmark, and trilingual Priority label. Grade: 1

Code: 31600425
Price: $3.00
State House, Dover (Delaware, USA)
Lots of dates in the caption of this unused Traub postcard 293. Grade: 1

Code: 31600426
Price: $3.00
Kobenhavn, Raadhuspladsen (Denmark)
Town Hall Square on an old, unused sepia card with ink transfer from another long-ago card on the front. Grade: 5

Code: 31600427
Price: $1.00
London, Houses of Parliament
Unused Photographic Greeting Card Co. 182. Grade: 1

Code: 31600428
Price: $2.00

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