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Greetings from Hollywood, The Glamour City (California)
It has been awhile since this area was glamorous but, who knows, miracles happen, it could come back. It should. Unused Plastichrome card P29702. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Tempe (Arizona, USA)
Old-style card, but new. Mailed in 2012 with three stamps, USPS barcoding on both sides, and illegible postmark. Grade: 3
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Groeten uit Boskoop (Netherlands)
Greetings from another town, another place, on a card mailed in 2012 with stamp and full postmark, and address label taped on. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 4
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Greetings from Texas – Lone Star State
Unused Plastichrome card P74072, heavily aged. Ride ’em, cowboy, and cowgirl. Grade: 2
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Grüße aus Geseke am Hellweg (Germany)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and a small smiley sticker on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Schöne Grüße aus Hildesheim (Germany)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and good postmark. Grade: 1
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Punk Shark, Greetings from California
Mailed in 2012 with $1.05 stamp, faint postmark, and a crease down the middle. Grade: 4
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Fozzy Greetings (Netherlands)
Internet card (iDRUKKER) mailed from Netherlands in 2012 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Amsterdam – Red Light District (Netherlands)
What a wonderful card though of course not to everyone’s taste. The heart-shaped section is cut out. Mailed in 2012 with stamp and partial postmark. Postal creasing on lower left corner. Grade: 2
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Greetings from Virginia, map
Mailed in 2012, with one stamp and barely readable contemporary postmark. Minor postal battering. Grade: 2
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Gruße aus Krefeld (Germany)
Mailed in 2012 with two different stamps and partial postmark. Grade: 1
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Los Angeles, Greetings from the Farmer’s Market
Actually this card is all about cake decorating from Humphrey Bakery, and all those women in sunglasses do look ready to pounce. Unused Curteichcolor card 7C-K2837 (and H.78). Grade: 1
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Greetings from Chinatown, New York
Unused linen card. Grade: 2
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Greetings from Ukraine
Mailed in 2012 with three remarkable stamps and full postmark. Grade: 2
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Schöne Grüße aus der Hansestadt Hamburg – Imtech Arena (Germany)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and blue trilingual Priority label affixed. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Kansas
Kansas is much more than this, but this is what postcards wanted you to see. Unused Plastichrome card P79040, with (Texas) Longhorns on the Chisholm Trail, and Interstate 70 as the counterpoint. The postcard is clean but heavily aged. Grade: 3
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Hello from The Knot Hole (Clinton, Arkansas)
Unused Laff Gram postcard R-70, aging and undeniably authentic! Grade: 2
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Greetings from Webster (Wisconsin, USA)
“I’m doin’ the work of two men!” is No. 930 in the “New Comic Locals – 20 designs” series. Though this card is unused, it is heavily stained on both sides. Grade: 4
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Greetings from Enid, Oklahoma
Large letter linen Curteich-Chicago postcard 2B105-N, mailed in 1947 with stamp and full postmark. Slight creasing in upper left corner area. Grade: 2
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Greetings from Maine
Unused linen Curteich-Chicago “C.T. Art-Colortone” card 9A-H2245 (and S-480) in superb condition for its age. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Buffalo, NY
Classic old large letter card, mailed from Canada with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 4
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Greetings from Turkey, map
This 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ postcard was mailed in 2012 with stamp and full Istanbul postmark. It also went to the wrong destination first, as indicated by a “Missent to Taipei” blue chop on the reverse. Accordingly, some postal bumping around the edges. Grade: 3
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Greetings from Oregon (USA)
Unused but aging E.C. Kropp large-letter card 10562-P49, with each of the six sites identified in the reverse caption. Grade: 2
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Greetings from Franken (Germany)
Multiple views of many captioned towns on this card mailed in 2012 with a coloured postage meter label but no postmark. Grade: 3
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Groeten uit Horst (Netherlands)
Mailed in 2012, the front is fine but the reverse (with stamp and postmark) has a message taped on. Grade: 4
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Greetings from Bucharest, The National Savings House (Romania)
And what better symbol of greetings could there be? This 4-5/8″ x 7-1/4″ card was mailed in 2012 with stamp, partial postmark, and address label affixed. Grade: 3
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Greetings from the Mountain State, West Virginia
Cards like this fit into many categories, and we take full advantage. Mailed in 2012 with $1.05 stamp, blurred postmark, and address label affixed. Grade: 3
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Greetings from Kuala Lumpur – Light Railway Transit System (Malaysia)
Mailed in 2012 with two stamps and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Nebraska City, Arbor Lodge (USA)
Arbor Lodge apparently comes from the plan of J. Sterling Morton to change Nebraska’s image by promoting Arbor Day. Unused Dexter Press card 86114-C, beginning to age slightly. Grade: 2
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Greetings from Vermont, The Green Mountain State
Unused Koppel Color Card 39173 (Vt 438) showing Old Scott Bridge (longest single span covered bridge in Vermont, built in 1870 and 276′ long) along with a Scenic View on Route 2 between Montpelier and Burlington. So there. Grade: 1
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Herzliche Grüße aus Dresden (Germany)
“Greetings from Dresden” on a card mailed in 2012 with stamp, a message pasted on a label, and upper left corner crumpled during transit. Grade: 4
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“Greetings from the United States”
Believe it or not, it’s relatively unusual to find map cards of the entire USA. This one was mailed from Washington state in 2012 with three different stamps and partly legible postmark. Grade: 1
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Greetings from So. Sioux City, Nebraska (USA)
Unused linen card 12 AT 467 — and who knew that South Sioux City had so many fine structures? Grade: 1
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Greetings from Racine, Wisconsin (USA)
Nice, unused, E.C. Kropp card 27052N, amongst whose views are a lighthouse, S.C. Johnson & Son’s Research and Development Tower, and the Pumping Station and Filtration Plant on Michigan Blvd. Tourist attractions all. Grade: 1
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St. Louis, Greetings from the Gateway to the West (Missouri, USA)
Aging, mailed card–but the stamp is long gone and the 1982 postmark largely unreadable. Grade: 4
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Welcome to Ukraine
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 2
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Greetings from Quebec, Cape Trinity
This “Private Post Card”, otherwise unattributed, has an undivided back and was mailed in 1905 with stamp and partial postmark. We rarely resort to statements like this, but what you see is what you get. Grade: 3
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Greetings from Ruidoso, “On the Road to Monte Cristo” (New Mexico, USA)
Unused, unattributed B&W card of artwork by Kathryne Hail Travis. Grade: 1
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Schöne Grüße aus Schleswig-Holstein, map and multiple views
Mailed in 2013 with two stamps, faint postmark, and trilingual Priority. Grade: 2
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Herzliche Grüsse aus Bayern (Germany)
The card is of dirndls, but really, if any card speaks for itself, this one does. Mailed in 2013 with two stamps, postmark, and trilingual Priority label. Grade: 1