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Costa Rican Social Security (San Jose)
Unused Codeca card 517, with bilingual Spanish/English captions. Grade: 2

Code: 31600366
Price: $3.00
San Jose, “Casa Amarilla” Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Costa Rica)
Unused. Slightly aging, but still Grade: 1

Code: 31600367
Price: $3.00
White Hall – Office of the Prime Minister, Queen’s Park Savannah (Trinidad)
Mailed in 2012 with two different stamps, and postmarks. There’s also a blue bilingual airmail sticker. Grade: 1

Code: 31600369
Price: $3.00
Aklan Provincial Capitol, Kalibo (Philippines)
Aklan is a province in the Western Visayas region. The five views here are clearly identified on the front of the unused card, including the Capitol. Grade: 1

Code: 31600370
Price: $3.00
Basilan, Provincial Capitol (Philippines)
Unused card from 1997. Grade: 1

Code: 31600371
Price: $3.00
Iba Zambales Province (Philippines)
All three views are identified on this unused card from 2000: the Provincial Capitol, Iba Town Hall, and President Magsaysay Birth Mark (a legitimate but unfortunate turn of phrase). Grade: 1

Code: 31600372
Price: $3.00
Hobart, Government House (Tasmania, Australia)
The unused card doesn’t want you to know this building is in Hobart–or it assumes you know–but we’ll tell you anyway. Grade: 1

Code: 31600375
Price: $2.00
Tarawa, House of Parliament (Kiribati)
One of our scarce Kiribati postcards showing anything urban. Unused, 4″ x 8-1/4″. Grade: 1

Code: 31600377
Price: $7.00
Limoges – Palais de Justice et Statue Gay-Lussac (France)
Mailed in 1908, with stamp and postmark from sending or receiving station on either side. In case you’ve forgotten, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen (with Alexander von Humboldt), for two laws related to gases, and for his work on alcohol-water mixtures, which led to the degrees Gay-Lussac used to measure alcoholic beverages in many countries. So the next time you’re in a bistro in Limoges, with aperitif in hand, you have double reason to celebrate. Grade: 2

Code: 31600378
Price: $14.00
Dover, The City Hall (Delaware, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P18095 from what looks like the 1950s. Grade: 1

Code: 31600381
Price: $3.00
Gulfport, Confederate Monument, Harrison County Courthouse (Mississippi, USA)
Maybe it’s just because we are so far away, but Mississippi postcards have been harder for us to source. As for this unused E.C. Kropp entry 12581N, after a quick Google search, and as of August 2017, the statue has survived America’s national purge of Confederate symbols. No idea right now what happened after that. Grade: 1

Code: 31600382
Price: $2.00
Yuma County Courthouse (Arizona, USA)
Unused postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 31600384
Price: $1.00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
United States Supreme Court (Washington, DC)
Unused, aging, Plastichrome card P-61916 (W-106). Grade: 2

Code: 31600415
Price: $1.00
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
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
București, multiple view (Romania)
Unused watercolor card for which the three scenes are identified in Romanian and English: Arch of Triumph, Palace of the Parliament, and Monument of Karol I along with the University library. Grade: 1

Code: 31600429
Price: $2.00
Reichenberg, Rathaus (Town Hall) (Czech)
Unused, real-photo vintage postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 31600431
Price: $3.00
Reichenberg (Liberec), Rathaus (Czech)
Unused old real-photo card, showing its age significantly. Grade: 2

Code: 31600432
Price: $3.00

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