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Toronto, City Hall (Canada)
Five of these unused Traveltime cards S-2078 are available, identical grades: 1
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Bruxelles, Hotel de Ville (Town Hall) (Belgium)
Unused old card, with perforated horizontal edges so it had been part of a set. Heavily aged. Grade: 3
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London, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Bridge
Your chance to pick up an iconic Westminster Bridge postcard at a value price. This one was mailed in 1960. Stamp and postcard are there, and some postmark ink transfer on the front. Serrated edges. Grade: 2
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Hamburg – Rathaus (Germany)
Sturdy and robust, an unused, ancient sepia postcard showing Hamburg’s Town Hall. Grade: 1
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Potsdam, Am Stadtschloss (City Palace) (Germany)
Unused Piek card 33367, with significant water staining on the right reverse edge. Grade: 4
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Denver, The Broncho Buster – Civic Center And State Capitol (Colorado)
“Broncho” is not a typo. Google can tell you about that. We’ll tell you about the postcard: mailed in 1945 or 1946 with stamp and most of the postmark. Grade: 2
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White House (Washington, DC)
Unused Silberne Souvenir card 155147, beginning to show its age, with some degrading on the front. Grade: 4
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White House – Red Room (Washington, DC)
Unused H.S. Crocker postcard S-111. At the time the card was printed, there were 132 rooms in the White House. And now? Grade: 1
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White House (Washington, DC)
Older B.S. Reynolds White House postcard 38684, unused. Grade: 3
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The United States Capitol
Unmailed card with a name and 1975 date inked into the stamp area. Grade: 4
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U.S. Capitol (Washington)
Unused B.S. Reynolds card 26296, published at a time when the Capitol was “one of the largest and stateliest buildings in the world”. Grade: 1
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Madison, State Capitol from Lake Monona (Wisconsin, USA)
Unused linen E.C. Kropp card 6A-H196 (1807) with a 1936 date lightly penciled on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Marble Room of Senate, U.S. Capitol (Washington)
Unused B.S. Reynolds card R-45529. The marble comes from Vermont. Grade: 1
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Chicago, City Hall and County Building (Illinois, USA)
Unused. Grade: 1
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St. Paul, The State Capitol (Minnesota)
Unused linen Curteich-Chicago card 7B-H1524, strictly for State Capitol specialists only due to the heavy aging on the front. Grade: 4
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New York City, Wall Street
Because this unused Curteichcolor card 6C-K858 (631) fits into so many categories, we’ll repeat the caption here: “Wall Street, center of financial district, showing U.S. Treasury Building at right, with Trinity Church in background”. Some aging. Grade: 1
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Philadelphia, Fountain on Parkway showing Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul and City Hall
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
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Philadelphia, Independence Hall (Pennsylvania, USA)
Old, undivided back, unused card calling Independence Hall “The most famous building in America.” If not that, then certainly one of the most historical. Grade: 2
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London, War Office
We were not expecting this when we Googled for more information. Wikipedia says: “The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between the 17th century and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Defence.The name “War Office” is also given to the former home of the department, the War Office building located at the junction of Horse Guards Avenue and Whitehall in central London. In August 2013 it was announced that the War Office building would be sold on the open market. The building was sold on 1 March 2016 for more than £350M, on a long 250 year lease, to the Hinduja Group and OHL Developments for conversion to a luxury hotel and residential apartments.” Unused B&W Valentine’s Series card 57167, a bit of smudging on the reverse (it’s an old card!) but otherwise clean. Grade: 2
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London, County Hall and Westminster Bridge
Unused, aging, unattributed sepia card from long ago. Grade: 1
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Milwaukee, City Hall (Wisconsin, USA)
Classic postcard view of Milwaukee’s seat of power, on this old and unused E.C. Kropp card 14485. Grade: 1
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London, Houses of Parliament (and Big Ben)
Unused but with a number written above the stamp area. Grade: 3
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State, War & Navy Building (Washington, DC)
Heavily abraded but undeniably very old, undivided back card. Grade: 5
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Rhinelander, City Hall (Wisconsin, USA)
Unused card. City Hall now doesn’t look all that different from City Hall then, but Google can be tricky. Grade: 1
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National Mall and Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
Unused. Grade: 1
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Inner Dome and Canopy over the Capitol Rotunda (Washington, DC)
Unused, official card whose perforated lower edge suggests it comes from a set. Grade: 1
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Harrisburg, State Capitol Senate Chamber (Pennsylvania, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P62276. Beginning to show its age. Grade: 1
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Victoria (BC), Parliament Buildings – Illuminated (Canada)
Unused Mike Roberts card C12106 (MVT-10). Grade: 1
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London, Princes Chamber, Houses of Parliament
Unused Valentine’s Series B&W card 57793. Grade: 1
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Providence, City Hall and Soldiers Monument (Rhode Island, USA)
You’ll have no doubt about the date of the card, from what you see on the front as well as the two postmarks (sending and receiving offices) on the back. Stamp is also there. Undivided back card. Grade: 2
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Bogota, Capitolio Nacional (Colombia)
Old, aging, unused card from Direccion General de Turismo. Edge abrasions. Grade: 3
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Caracas, Capitolio Nacional (Venezuela)
Unused Intana card with rounded corners and an impressively long index number: 84 03.084 272 266. Some age spots on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Maputo, City Hall (Mozambique)
The pre-printed stamp is dated 1982 on this Government-issued card, and we have two of them. For the first, the Maputo postmark on this mailed card shows 1983; as we used to say, “good of kind” (Grade: 2, $6). For the other card, never mailed, and with some written lines and heavy smudges on the reverse (Grade: 4, $2).
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Rhinelander, Oneida County Court House (Wisconsin, USA)
The courthouse was built in 1908 to a replace a timber frame courthouse that had been on the same site from 1887-1908. The 1908 courthouse was designed by German-born architect Christ H. Tegen of Manitowoc; the rear of the building has been expanded several times to provide additional space for county government. This is an unused, early-1900s card. Grade: 1
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Manila, Taft Avenue (Philippines)
The view (according to the caption) includes City Hall and the General Post Office. The card, however, was mailed from Hong Kong (not Philippines) in 1961, with two different stamps and a blue air mail sticker. Grade: 3
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Greetings from South Carolina, The Palmetto State
South Carolina postcards became more politically correct shortly after this. Yes, that’s the State Capitol in Columbia. Unused card, mid-1960s. Grade: 1
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The Residency (Ascension Island)
Unused. Grade: 1
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Stanley, multiple views (Falkland Islands)
On this unused 4″ x 8″ card, the views are identified in the caption on the back: Battle Memorial, The Secretariat, Christ Church Cathedral, Marmont Row, and Government House. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Idaho (USA)
Unmailed E.C. Kropp card 16051, with a small notation inked entirely within the stamp area. Like many of these Large Letter cards, the individual views are identified in the caption on the back: Beauty Bay, Cabinet Gorge, Shoshone Falls, Sun Valley Lodge and Challenger Inn, and Canadian wild geese at Challenger Inn. And, of course, the state capitol. Grade: 3
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Indianapolis, Indiana State House (USA)
Unused Tichnor Bros. card K-11798, aging. Grade: 2