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Vincennes, First Capitol of Indiana Territory (USA)
Mailed in 1947, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2
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Illinois State Capitol, Springfield
Unused E.C. Kropp vintage postcard 23925-8 with ten views identified in the caption. Grade: 1
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Jefferson City, Missouri State Capitol
Unused, mottled old E.C. Kropp card 4437. Grade: 2
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Greetings from Georgia (USA)
Unused “local” card 124430, with Georgia’s state capitol and Callaway Gardens on Pine Mountain. Slight aging. Grade: 1
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Acuarelas de Asunción (Paraguay)
Acuarelas = Watercolours, on this unused card whose views include Palace of the Government, National Pantheon, and Guarani Hotel. Captioned in Spanish, English, and German. The card is clean but aging. Grade: 2
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Elland Road, Leeds (England)
Unused card produced in 1995 or 1996, with an extensive caption explaining everything. The Town Hall appears. Grade: 1
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Budapest, Houses of Parliament
Unused but with four strips of tape on the back. Grade: 5
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Buenos Aires, night view – Municipalidad, Cabildo, Plaza de Mayo
Unused 4″ x 7″ Edicolor card 5.074, aging. Grade: 3
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Buenos Aires, Municipalidad y Av. de Mayo al atardecer
“Atardecer” means late afternoon, but we’ll call it sunset, a view on this 4″ x 7-1/8″ card not postally used but with a Portuguese message on the back. Grade: 4
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Buenos Aires, Plaza Colon y Ministerio de Guerra (Argentina)
Now the Ministry of Defense, on an unused vintage postcard, appropriately but mildly aged. Grade: 1
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Buenos Aires, Casa de Gobierno – Pl. Mayo (Argentina)
Ancient, unused, aging real-photo card. Clean. Grade: 2
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Buenos Aires, Cabildo, Municipalidad y Diagonal
Unused card, aging noticeably. Printing on the reverse is slightly misregistered, making the card look as if someone had trimmed the edge, though that was not the case. Grade: 3
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Tucuman, Casa de Gobierno, Vista nocturna (Argentina)
Not postally mailed, this Grafica card #331 (4″ x 7-1/8″) has a very extensive message in Portuguese covering the back. Grade: 4
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Nassau, The Governor’s Mansion (Bahamas)
Mailed in 1981 with stamp and postmark. Showing its age, but otherwise clean. Grade: 2
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Municipalidad, Santiago (Chile)
These views are all identified (in Spanish) in the caption on the back of this card, mailed in 1990 with two stamps and large postmark. It’s an aging card with bumps and bruises, but all-in-one, after all. Grade: 3
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Habana Moderna, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba
Older, aging, unused card with two pieces of tape along left reverse edge. Grade: 3
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Havana, Sciences Academy
Not postally used, but with messages throughout the reverse, and two pieces of tape at the top reverse. Grade: 4
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La Habana, El Capitolio (Cuba)
Like the previous card in this 1998 series, this has a large and colourful pre-printed “postage paid” stamp in the right area, and this time there’s a partial postmark. There is also some tape on the right reverse edge. Grade: 3
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Asuncion, Palacio de Gobierno (Paraguay)
Not postally used, but with a 1975 date written on the back. Grade: 3
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Asuncion, House of Representatives (Paraguay)
Unused A.G.M. card #4. The front is good; the back is unmarked by writing but abraded around the edges. Grade: 4
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Asuncion, Congreso Nacional (Paraguay)
Continuing a series of unused old cards. Highly aged but otherwise unmarked. This is card #F.514. Grade: 3
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Palacio de Gobierno, Asuncion (Paraguay)
From a series of unused old cards. Highly aged but otherwise unmarked. This is card #F.507. Grade: 3
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Asuncion, Plaza Juan de Salazar y Espinoza al fondo el Congreso Nacional
Continuing a series of unused old cards, some issued under authority of Direccion General de Turismo. Highly aged but otherwise unmarked. This is card #A 3 and we have two available in similar conditions. Grades: 4
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Greetings from Boston (USA)
In the style and even the linen paper stock of an old Large Letter card, but this is contemporary, with serrated edges, and mailed in 2013 with three stamps and postmark. The Government buildings in question are (B) Old State House, and (O) New State House and Copley Square. Grade: 1
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Paramaribo, Tower Building of Ministry of Finance (Suriname)
This unmailed card is in awful condition. There’s a wistful message in English covering the reverse and all we can say is that we hope Guely felt the same about Danny. Grade: 5
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Caracas, Concejo Municipal – Plaza Bolivar (Venezuela)
Unused, older card 134 with some abrasions leftover from being in an album. Grade: 4
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Budapest, Parliament (Hungary)
In maybe the 1980s this card was mailed from Austria (not Hungary, unless you want to close one eye to history), with stamp and indistinct postmark. Grade: 3
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Alabama State Capitol Building, Montgomery
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Moscow, The Kremlin at night
That’s what the captions (in four languages) say, though some of these multiple views seem to have been during the day. But we quibble. Mailed in 2013 with stamp and large, full Moscow postmark. Grade: 1
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Greetings from West Virginia
What an unexpectedly sad message on this older card, stamped for mailing but not postmarked so we don’t know whether the right person ever saw it. Grade: 4
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Buenos Aires, Casa de Gobierno
Larger (4″ x 8-1/4″) unused card whose bilingual captions take up the entire message area. There is a lot of bumping around the edges. Grade: 3
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Buenos Aires, Casa Rosada
Unused card 1132. Grade: 1
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Buenos Aires, Casa Rosada 1074
Unused card, floridly and bilingually captioned as “Pink House with violet petunias”. Grade: 1
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La Paz, multiple views (Bolivia)
Unused Belleza Boliviana card No. 210, captioned in Spanish and English. Views include Plaza Murillo, Cathedral, and Congress Building. Grade: 1
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Belo Horizonte – MG – Cidade Administrativa (Brazil)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Brasilia – DF – Aspecto do Congresso
Mailed in 1978, this card is aging heavily but otherwise clean, with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 1
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Brasilia – DF – Foreign Relations Office and Ministry of Justice
Mailed in 1980, very much aged but with early orange postal barcoding, two full postmarks, and two stamps. Something for everyone. Grade: 2
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Brasilia – DF – Multiple views
The views include the Ministry of Justice, night view of Eixo Monumental, and Alvorada Palace, on this card mailed in 1980 with three stamps, two large and full postmarks, and orange postal barcoding on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Porto Alegre – RS – City Hall (Brazil)
From a short series of unused 5-1/2″ x 7″ “sight of the sky” cards. Grade: 1
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Asuncion, Palace of the Government (Paraguay)
Unused, heavily aged Ediciones A.G.M. card 75, captioned in Spanish, English, and German. Grade: 3