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Groeten uit Culemborg (Netherlands)
Greetings from Culemborg. The card was mailed in 2011, with stamp but not really legible postmark. Grade: 1
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Greetings from San Bernardino Mountains
Front is fine. Reverse is something of a mess, with stains, inked notations, date (1979), yet unmailed. Grade: 4
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Groeten uit Antwerpen (Belgium)
Mailed in 2011 with four different stamps and Prior blue label affixed. Grade: 2
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Groeten uit Den Helder (Netherlands)
If we get about 18 more cards with lips like these, we’ll open a new category. Until then, we just make do with the wonder of them. (The mouth area is cut out from the card.) Mailed in 2011, with address label taped on. Grade: 3
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Amarillo, Texas
Mailed in 2011 with three different stamps, readable postmark, and affixed address label. Abrasions on the front of the card. Grade: 4
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Groeten uit Doorn (Netherlands)
Mailed in 2011 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 2
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Saluti da Grado (Italy)
The front of this card is perfect. The back is perfect, too; just very busy with a bilingual blue Aerphost and address sticker, and two uncancelled stamps totalling E1.60. Grade: 4
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Gruss aus Nurnberg (Germany)
Nice card, the best way to see a place without being there. Mailed in 2011 with two stamps, full postmark, and Luftpost sticker affixed. Grade: 1
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Groeten uit Den Haag (Netherlands)
Card was mailed, with a stamp and se-tenant Priority label, but postmark is not legible. Grade: 2
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Groeten uit Borger (Netherlands)
Mailed in 2011 with stamp and nearly full postmark. Grade: 2
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Lake Bled (Slovenia)
Mailed in 2011 with two stamps and full postmark, this is a near-perfect contemporary representation of a Slovenian postcard. Grade: 1
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Las Vegas
A card for many categories, mailed in 1974 with stamp and postmark. The writer was having a great time, clearly. The irony is that the card’s recipient could have been right there with them. A bit of postal battering, nothing major. Grade: 3
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Rauma, greetings (Finland)
“Terveiset Raumalta,” Greetings from Rauma, on a card mailed in 2011 with Priority sticker and a beautiful 3D stamp that unfortunately has not been postmarked. Were it not for that, the card would be grade 1, but by our standards it must then be Grade: 4
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Grusse aus Brilon im Hochsauerland (Germany)
Two stamps, postmark, trilingual Luftpost label on this card mailed in 2011. As the writer says, “greetings from a small place in Westphalia.” We had heard the mythical Australian folk hero Bronc Morret had taken up residence there, but can’t verify it. Grade: 2
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Greetings and mountains (Switzerland)
Iconic Swiss, mailed in 2011 with two stamps (one of which would virtually knock your eyes out if you stared at it) and full but faint postmark. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Ireland, multiple views
A six-line caption tells all about these structures. Card was mailed in 2011, stamp and bilingual Priority label are there but no legible postmark. Grade: 2
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Wintergroeten uit Holland (Netherlands)
Two of these cards are here. One was mailed from Germany, with stamp and full postmark (Grade: 4, $2) and the other from Netherlands, with three stamps, blue bilingual Priority label, and address label affixed (Grade: 3, $3).
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Terveisia Espoosta (Greetings from Espoo, Finland)
Many of you probably know of various translation services available online. The one from Google is easy to use, and includes a “listen” function. We feel like moving to Finland just so we can hear this phrase repeated over and over. Wonderful! Like the card, mailed though with no postmark, so we must assign it as Grade: 3
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Groeten uit de Voerstreek (Sint-Martens-Voeren, Belgium)
Mailed in 2011, the three stamps remain uncancelled; also the A-Prior label is there, and address pasted on. Grade: 4
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Lublin (Poland)
The “Greetings” is in Polish, which you will know if you speak the language. Card in terrific condition, mailed in 2011 with one large se-tenant stamp and one other, and two postmarks, along with Priorytet label affixed. Grade: 1
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Groeten uit Drenthe (Netherlands)
Mailed in 2011 with stamp and Zwolle postmark. Grade: 1
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Valentine Greetings
Mailed in 1915 with stamp, Omaha postmark, and greetings from Mother. Grade: 3
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New England Generic Post Card
Well, it’s not our cheapest card … on the back, the caption reads “Greetings from New England” and then the message area of this (unused) card has a series of one-liners the writer can tick off instead of actually writing anything. Plastichrome card P334229. Grade: 1
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Nova Scotia
This card we think sets a record for fitting into the greatest number of different categories on this website: Canada, fishing, greetings, lighthouse, and boat. But that’s mostly for our amusement, not yours. It was mailed in 1959. The postmark is there, but the stamp is gone. This pushes the grade down to Grade: 4
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Panama and the Canal Zone/Greetings from Republic of Panama (folio)
This is a superb Curteich-Chicago C.T. Art-Colortone folio of 24 different linen cards, each with their own stock number, all captioned in Spanish. Mailed with two Canal Zone stamps and full Balboa postmark, which did not include the year, but the folio copyright date is MCMXLIV (1944). If you have any historical interest in Panama and/or the Canal Zone, this is definitely for your consideration. Grade: 1
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I’d like to talk with you a lot
In 1928, Rose wrote to Mable, mostly asking after Jim. If she mailed the card, it must have been in an envelope. Or maybe hand delivered? We worry about Jim, because Rose definitely was. Grade: 4
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Laid Back & Lovin’ It! (Florida)
“Relaxed greetings from Florida.” Mailed in 2011 with $1 stamp and postal abrasions. Grade: 3
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Gozo, Malta
Unused Perfecta Advertising multi-view card 750. Grade: 1
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Gyor, multiple views and Greetings
Greetings from Gyor! Udvozlet Gyorbol! Unused Ars Una Studio card. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Yeats Country (Sligo) (Ireland)
Unused John Hinde card 2/SO-013 with a big caption in a small space. Grade: 1
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Groetjes uit … (Greetings from …) (Netherlands)
Produced in, and mailed from, the Netherlands even though–as the writer points out–this card is “a joke because weather is too wet and cold for such trees” there. Two stamps, no postmark. Grade: 4
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Greetings from Oklahoma, Home of the Red Man
The caption on this card, mailed in 1974 with two stamps and full postmark, gives an impressive amount of information about Native American influence in Oklahoma, in only six lines. Grade: 3
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Malden, Missouri
Generic card with Malden greetings, and the writer (mailed in 1957, stamp and postmark there) was as skeptical as we are about the view you see here. A bit of staining on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Marceline, Greetings
Unused Curteich-Chicago card S-1151 (and 7B-H351), could be anywhere. Grade: 2
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Portland, Oregon
Allow us a little side comment here: we love this kind of card. The design 100% represents the typical card American families in the 40s and 50s were delighted to find in their mailbox, and they would chat with the postman about how much fun the neighbours were having. OK now, back to reality. This Curt Teich linen card 2B-H1157 (and 702) was mailed in 1947 with stamp and full postmark. All those places embedded in the letters are identified in the reverse caption. Grade: 2
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The Box of Oranges I promised to send you
Unused old M. Marshall card 7444-1134. Grade: 1
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Greetings of Montreal, Windsor Hotel
This busy but unused B&W card 30 comes from European Post Card Co. of Montreal. Some staining on both sides, but it’s a very old postcard. Grade: 3
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Grusse aus Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
Mailed in 2011 with stamp, full postmark, blue trilingual Luftpost, and extra rubber stamp imprint. Grade: 3
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Greetings from Nebraska, Where the West Begins
This card fits into an impressive number of our topical categories. Mailed in 1959 from Wyoming, the commemorative stamp and postmark are there. Some postmark transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Greetings from Nebraska, The Cornhusker State
Unused and somewhat generic Plastichrome card P11242. Grade: 2